| 1. | But if a clamorous vile plebeian rose. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Villefort, as we have seen, belonged to the aristocratic party at Marseilles, Morrel to the plebeian the first was a royalist, the other suspected of Bonapartism. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | He was dressed in a common gray blouse and velvet cap, but his carefully arranged hair, beard and mustache, all of the richest and glossiest black, ill accorded with his plebeian attire. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | The plebeians have got your fellow tribun. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | With the plebeians swarming at their heels. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | That with the fusty plebeians hate thine honours. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians would th. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |