During this lame performance Miss Farington listened with a perfectly stolid face, but with a heightened colour which told that she knew, in vulgar parlance, what I was driving at.
Is it that tipsy man in the green coat, or that vulgar creature in the blue one?
I'm quite convinced that they mean to be vulgar to the last extreme--there has been so much talk of the behaviour of the wretched Floud, a fellow who really has no place in our modern civilization.
And if she wasn't keen to marry him, had I called him across the ocean to intervene in a vulgar village squabble about social precedence?
For example, he who puts himself in a state of drunkenness, consents beforehand to all the low, vulgar actions inseparable from that state.
For a long time, the duty of paying one's debts appeared to be one of those vulgar and commonplace duties intended for the generality of men, but from which the great lords freed themselves easily.
Real, that is to say, conscious simplicity is not even recognised; and, when it becomes active, it appears to vulgarminds a danger that must be averted.
Two honest lives cannot join in falsehood; but either of them, if united to a vulgar nature, is perhaps capable of deterioration.
From time to time, she says a word or two; and I recognise the shrill voice and the vulgar gestures that used to hurt me so much during our early talks.
The writing, which is evidently that of a vulgar and illiterate person, appears to be of the age of Henry VII.
Robert Hood (with Little John and their accomplices) whose achievements the foolishvulgar delight to celebrate in comedies and tragedies, while the ballads upon his adventures sung by the jesters and minstrels are preferred to all others.
Perhaps by the same feeble andvulgar hand as the preceding, and, like that, founded on the Lytell Geste.
The vulgar passion for bestowing them is notorious and universal.
From the manner in which Horace alludes to the signa-- as and culum-- of which the name is composed, it seems likely that a certain vulgar benison was not unknown at Rome in the age of Augustus.
Mathematical men," in the present sense of the term, might be required to construct the maps in the edition of Ptolemy, but scarcely to design or engrave the vulgar figures and worthless views in the Nuremberg Chronicle.
It was evident that Miss Dorcas was on the highest and most serene mountain-top of propriety this morning, and all her words and actions indicated that calm superiority to vulgar curiosity which, in her view, was befitting a trained lady.
I'm not flirting, uncle; that vulgar word is no name for my friendship with Miss Van Arsdel.
Your first wish is a vulgar one, which I could fulfil, but I leave that to the issues of your new existence.
There is an illusion about a gambling saloon at night as vulgar as that of a bloodthirsty drama, and just as effective.
You have made fun of authority of all sorts to-day, which is every bit as vulgar as denying the existence of God.
This partly results from the nature of the imitation; a vulgar deception is often practised upon us: what is not a flower is intended to pass for one.
Behind we see a younger bard arise, No vulgar rival in the grand emprize.
I really believe that to this circumstance may be attributed the vulgarbut very general notion of your being, as a body, suspicious, distrustful, and over-cautious.
We do not mean to assert that the application of this brevity to himself, struck exactly that indignation to Mr. Pickwick's soul, which it would infallibly have roused in a vulgar breast.
So large a portion of the years will be for him a business of mean hopes and fears, of sordid struggle, of low cares and vulgar fret.
Suppose that suggestion of vulgar Common Sense, that she was just a little minx that had run away from home, had really hit the mark.
For if the vulgar are to pronounce who is the best astrologer, my reputation is known to be of the highest order; if they prefer the judgment of the learned, they are already condemned.
It is therefore plain that the vulgar theory of gravity is erroneous.
This is the principal source of the filthy astrological superstitions of that vulgar and childish race of dreamers, the prognosticators.
He possessed a weight of character at home which made him independent of the vulgar resorts of popularity.
I venture to presume, that no person of classic feeling ever saw Lord Elgin’s marbles without execrating the folly that could bring them from their bright, native sky, to the vulgar atmosphere of London.
Nothing better could ensue from such a vulgar play of Mr. Flamborough's proposing.
To be seen by ladies of such high breeding in such vulgar attitudes!
And first grew dreadful to the vulgar name, They seized the murderer, drenched with Lamian gore, 225 And hurled him, headlong, to the infernal shore!
This, however, may be supposed to be the opinion of somevulgar and ignorant plebeian, or of a woman.
For impudence the vulgar suffrage draws, And seems the assurance of a righteous cause.
From the three Bruti, who were looked upon by the vulgar as the champions of liberty.
A putrid ulcer lurks in your tender mouth, which it would not be right to grate against with vulgar beet.
Will you not abjure thatvulgar hate which has conspired with slavery against liberty in our land, and thus roll from the sepulcher, where they have buried it alive, the stone which has so long imprisoned their victim?
The reason why people think politics is a low and vulgar pursuit is that woman has never been in politics.
Let not the scoffs and sneers of the low, mean, and vulgar intimidate, defeat, or discourage you.
The opposition were often challenged to debate this question in public, but uniformly refused, knowing full well, since their powder in this battle consisted of vulgar abuse and ridicule, that they had no arguments to advance.
The inlaid borders are very effective, and there is nothing vulgar or offensive in the carving.
He is not to take advantage of his situation to utter stale jests or vulgar puns.
The Hertfords have always been gentlemen and ladies and you would send the last of the race, by the power of your vulgar money, to work among common labourers in order to break his spirit and pride!
He deplored the fact that a man of Sandy Morley's antecedents should, by the vulgar power of money, gain control over the people.
Quite by accident I discovered the vulgar intrigue of this--this Morley.
It was the vulgarexclamation of a very vulgar man.
There was a rasping and a vulgar ring in his voice.
How very vulgar the man was, with an innate vulgarity that nothing would ever eradicate.
She snapped her fingers in a fashion that was almost vulgar, and she was so free from vulgar actions.
Her Highness rose, calmly superior to the vulgar excitement of her lady in waiting.
I felt that I had taken a vulgar liberty with her.
So vulgar and silly--I don't know what people see in her.
He knew it was vulgar but it was the only retaliation he had breath for.
It seemed to rush out at him in a tearing rage, flaunting its vulgarfinery and its odour of bad scent and cheap cigarette smoke.
It was a poor, vulgar show--a pantomime jerry-built to accommodate her particular talent.
But then Mums prided herself on having no vulgar sense of humour to interfere with justice.
She would not have used such a vulgar expression herself; but that is what she was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vulgar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
