All the excitement of her rabble rousing had been suitably extinguished, along with our enthusiasm for this show.
Earlier in the book, Murray waxed indignant about the "condescension toward the rabble" he detected in the new upper class.
Could the West rely on the more or less faceless Libyan opposition, a rabble in arms, to be so pliable?
The culture of the new upper class carries with it an unmistakable whiff of a 'we're better than the rabble' mentality.
I was trapped backstage with a rabble of photographers behind a security fence as the models filed out.
Stonor was there, too, of course, standing grimly apart from the rabble.
It never entered his head that he was not the master of the rabble there below him.
He had easily rid himself of the rabble vanguard by sending them to their doom in Asia Minor.
It must be remembered that the streets of Paris about this time were crowded with a rabble of beggars.
The rabble were better at witch-hunts than a government was.
c.1300, "pack of animals," possibly related to Middle English rablen "to gabble, speak in a rapid, confused manner," probably imitative of hurry, noise, and confusion (cf. Middle Dutch rabbelen, Low German rabbeln "to chatter"). Meaning "tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people" is from late 14c.; applied contemptuously to the common or low part of any populace from 1550s.
iron bar for stirring molten metal, 1864, from French râble, from Old French roable, from Latin rutabulum "rake, fire shovel," from ruere to rake up (perhaps cognate with Lithuanian raju "to pluck out," German roden "to root out").
