Even in the matter of sensuous ease, any combination of cloth, steel springs, and feathers seems vulgar in comparison.

Besides, it is as vulgar as Rats-bane, or the slicing of the Weasand.

The vulgar of the other sex, who are constantly the admirers of success, however unmerited, and conceit, however unfounded, thought his lordship the greatest man in the world.

We had now music, and several attempts were made to get up the indecent Moorish dance, which, however, was forbidden as too vulgar for such fashionable Jews, and honoured by the presence of Europeans.

"Because," she said, looking me in the eyes, "it is most likely that he will marry my daughter, and nothing is more vulgar than a family whose members are forever quarreling.

There's nothing vulgar about it.

Though the other troopers were all gentlemen, they seemed ignorant and vulgar to Harry Esmond, with the exception of this good-natured Corporal Steele, Scholar, although Captain Westbury and Lieutenant Trant were always kind to the lad.

" "I'll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets; So do you too, where you perceive them thick.

Thou should'st know that the imputations of the vulgar against our sect are the grossest calumnies.

We think them vulgar at first, and savoring of the shop; but they are useful and handy, and we cannot do without them.

On the night following the opening of the retreat, Roc-Amadour is illuminated, and the spectacle is one that renders the grandest illuminations in Paris mean and vulgar by comparison.

The vulgar like an excess, even if it be of folly; for, in their eyes, the abundance of any particular quality is very apt to be taken as the standard of its excellence.

The half-breed and half-civilized chiefs, however handsome, look vulgar beside the pure blood.

To-day the demands of fashion and of social pleasures have caused large families to be considered even vulgar among the extremists in the mode.

Now, again, I saw him a captive, and addressed by the vulgar with the language they seem to find most appropriate to such occasionsthat of thrusts and blows.

A lattice of gilded wood over which clambered fragrant vines screened the interior from the eyes of the vulgar without impeding the free circulation of air to preserve the coolness necessary at that season.

But the moment came when he had to take the brunt of it, averting his thoughts as best he might from the glimpse it gave of a world of mean familiarities, of reprisals drawn from the vulgarest of vocabularies.