| 单词 | parvenu |
| 例句 | Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To some, however, his philanthropy was seen as parvenu social climbing – the satirical duo Flanders and Swann mocked Clore's obsession with status in one of their songs. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z Mario was extraordinarily kind to me when I began writing and performing satirical songs in the late ’80s that cheekily skewered some of the wealthy Park Avenue parvenus who happened to be his clients. Remembering the Marvelous, Maddening Mario Buatta 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The result is a network comedy that sends up sex, sin and Southern Baptists, or at least the pious parvenus of Dallas. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z His mother, “born of samurai stock” and married to “a parvenu beneath herself,” succumbed to mental illness six months after Ryunosuke’s birth. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He comes across as a shrewd, well-meaning parvenu who savors the expensive, tacky trappings of his success but who has no mythic stature whatsoever. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z Ours is a humility born of a parvenu's shoulder chip balanced by pride in a thing made better than anyone else, anywhere else can make it — self-knowledge both cynical and satisfied. 'Wheedle's Groove' documentary captures the soul of Seattle 2010-09-02T20:06:00Z Another contradiction emerges from a discussion of the red squirrel, which clings on in Scotland in the face of strong competition from its parvenu grey cousin. Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-03-15T17:42:01Z Who, today, remembers that the Vanderbilts were once grubby parvenus? The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Beagin widens her lens to take in this cast of locals and upstate parvenus even as she stays focused on Greta’s rising fever. Jen Beagin's novel ‘Big Swiss’ is a hot Hollywood property. It's also a timeless comedy 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z PGA Tour ranges are littered with teams of agents, instructors, lackeys and general parvenus. Starting over: When you lose your tour card - Golf Digest 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The first great misfortune that befell the U.S. and its allies came in November of 2016, when this small-minded parvenu was elected President. Trump Unleashed is a Danger to the World 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Just as the parvenu tries to elevate himself into a higher social realm, the word climber wishes to seem more intelligent than he actually is. If You’ve Heard One Cliché, You’ve Heard Them All 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z And so Nokia, Microsoft, BlackBerry and co went back to sleep, confident that their mastery of a mature industry would see the parvenu off. The car is dead, long live the car, thanks to Tesla | John Naughton 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z When Mr. Trump bought Mar-a-Lago at a fire-sale price in 1985, he was viewed by many in this uppity enclave as a parvenu who would cheapen the legacy of the estate. At Cosseted ‘Winter White House,’ Outside World Intrudes on Trump 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z In one scene, Trimalchio, a parvenu who serves dishes like a boiled calf wearing a helmet, decides that a mere party isn’t enough and holds a mock funeral for himself. The Art of Partying, From Socrates to Capote 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Leipzig, like Hoffenheim, faces a hostile reception at most away matches because of fans who prefer “traditional” clubs with long histories over new-money parvenus. Surprise teams top Bundesliga standings, including Leipzig 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Gripers flinch from Latinate vocabulary in the mouths of lesser white-collar workers and parvenus in general: to reside, apprise, desist, terminate and so on. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Based around half a dozen galleries in the modish Saint-Germain quarter, the world of French manuscripts is today gradually recovering its poise - so rudely shaken by the irruption of the Aristophil parvenu. Were investors conned into buying rare manuscripts? - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z That makes them mere parvenus compared with the Lovenskiold family across the border in Norway: now led by its 13th generation, it claims a 360-year history and runs successful timber and furniture firms. A Nordic pyramid 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z One criticism of her approach has been that she has represented a part for the whole, immersing herself in a world of parvenus and allowing them to stand in for an entire uptown ruling class. A Hobby Anthropologist Dissects the Tribes of the Upper East Side 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But Thailand’s entrenched elite soon tired of this parvenu, accusing him of buying votes from gullible bumpkins and even of angling to replace the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej as the object of popular adoration. If There's Going to Be a Thai Civil War, Isaan Will Be Its Front Line 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z When investors put an $18.2 billion number on a parvenu tech company, the message is decisive and unmistakable. The Uber Fracas: Luddite Regulators Target Innovation 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Where both once met on fairly equal terms as competitive post-war parvenus they now exist in divergent orbits. Leeds v Chelsea is an animosity that still simmers after 50 years 2012-12-18T22:02:01Z Of his family little is known; according to J. J. Rousseau his father was a rich parvenu, who brought his son at an early age to Paris, where the latter spent most of his life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Compared with that old stronghold, the Guildhall is the merest parvenu, having been built in 1683; but, comparisons of age apart, there is no parallel to be drawn between the two. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z These conditions produce what may be called the pianistic nouveau-riche or parvenu, who practises the vices of the dilettante without, however, the mitigating excuse of ignorance or a lack of training. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He shows us prominent types of character—the miser, the parasite, the legacy-hunter, the parvenu, &c., but he does not try to trace these different manifestations of life to their source. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z You are always trying to win over the parvenus.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Had he lived in these days, what delicious whigs, radicals, "penny-rint" kings, from our side of the water,—what tragic poets, republicans, and parvenus from his own, would he have cheered us withal! Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z The nobles regard him as a parvenu; the republicans stigmatize him as a renegade. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z I have no doubt my criticism was often unjust; I had the insolence of the parvenu in learning. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Very few parvenus have this sort of nobility. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z Now, the parvenu, the man of his hands, may be a very estimable fellow, but his raw prosperity grates upon the nerves. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Now it is a rare parvenu who is not conceited. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Thus the Mbau chiefs passed from being parvenus to a place in the aristocracy of their adopted country. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z No sooner have the twins taken up their abode in this magic palace, than they begin to act like parvenus and nouveaux riches. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The millionaire and the parvenu found him invaluable. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Not that Hand Cross is great, or altogether pleasing to the eye; for, after all, it is a parvenu of a place, and lacks the Domesday descent of, for instance, Cuckfield. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z When a conceited parvenu goes mad, his conceit is as mad as the rest of him. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The opulent parvenus, only, have preserved some remains of the noble dwellings of the extinct or ruined nobility. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z My dread of the latter has nothing in common with that of the parvenu, who trembles for his wealth, or with that of well-to-do tradesmen, who fear an interruption of their profitable business. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The rich parvenu was very indignant, and as a rebuke took out a sovereign and placed it on the book-board. Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z Thus, parvenus were known to place the busts of fictitious ancestors in the shrines and to engage needy literary men to trace back their descent even to Aeneas himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Mr. Black is no parvenu, having been a fixture on Wall Street for decades. DealBook: Birthdays Are Still Big in Buyout Land 2011-08-19T01:14:28Z If Stirmingham objects to owe its origin to a water-rat, it may at least congratulate itself upon the fact that it was a good old English rat—none of your modern parvenu, grey Hanoverian rascals. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z No plumber came over in the Mayflower; but think not, for that reason, that he is a parvenu. The Comforts of Home 2011-08-11T02:00:13.980Z The parvenus dominate—and money is so insolent! Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Whatever else may be said about them, all the world acknowledges that it is the parvenus in every land who do the largest part of the greatest work. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z But the Italians do not brag; they have, indeed, no reason at all to act as parvenus. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z For the Haggler, a parvenu in the field, hearing from this guy was like a weekend fiddler’s getting a call from Mozart. The Haggler: A Mr. Nader Is Calling, and He Wants a Refund 2011-07-23T18:14:03Z The first sign of the nation having been so inoculated was given when it allowed Disraeli to call the Queen of England the Empress of India, and change an ancient monarchy into a parvenu empire. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z She hailed from the old urban Republican ranks; Perry was a parvenu out of the west. Rick Perry's Inconvenient Truth: Texas' GOP Governor Used to be a Democrat 2011-07-14T18:00:00Z But, although clad in purple and fine linen, ignorance of such trifles betrays the parvenu. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Of course they sold the gate to some of the parvenu Yankees, that the old gentleman scorned so. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z We know that every bourgeois in France carries within him the imperishable type of the bourgeois gentleman, a type which never fails to appear immediately the parvenu acquires a little wealth and power. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z German propagandists took advantage of our seeming 'newness,' forgetting that the new Germany was a parvenu among the nations. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z To "throw a perfume o'er the violet," bespeaks the French coiffeur or the parvenu; the simplicity of the ancient Dutch custom of New Year visits is its dignity and glory. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyed—as was the custom—but much dreaded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z To put against the few men of wit, the occasional writers of the first order, the two or three poets that the South has given us, what noisy, insolent, troublesome parvenus Paris owes to it! Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z Her connexions were admirable—high enough to give him a very considerable lift socially, and yet not so elevated as to make his rise that of a mere "parvenu." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z His family, in the opinion of the Germans, was so great that he could afford to do as he pleased; I rather think he looked on the Hohenzollerns as rather parvenus. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z He had none of the snobbishness of an impoverished parvenu, who is ashamed of being obliged suddenly to retrench, and hides his economies as a crime. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Eugene, for whom this rosary of parvenu platitudes becomes too long, murmurs: "Shall we not soon have paid sufficient thanks for the honor of being allied with Baron Lanzberg?" Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Truly it would be difficult to imagine anything more modest, more innocent, than the slender creature beside that broad-shouldered parvenu! Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z She told of her Cousin Anna, who had finally married--an American parvenu, whom she treated very badly, and who was very proud of her. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Alone of the parvenu monarchs of the Napoleonic age Bernadotte retained the crown of Sweden, to which, by the treaty of Kiel, that of Norway had been added. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z "But indeed I care nothing for this speculator's position--the man himself is odious--a common parvenu with a boor of a son." 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z There are parvenus who listen in society to such speeches with self-satisfied indifference; yes, even laugh at them, and applying the English proverb, "Present company always excepted," to their own case, fancy themselves unreferred to. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z "I do not object to that kind of parvenu," says Wenkendorf. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Few Englishmen even shrink from acknowledging that they cannot afford to do this or that, and on the continent profuseness in the use of money is considered the sure mark of a parvenu. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z One way this cartel maintains its power is promoting the myth that only old is good; parvenu schools just can’t compete, at least not for a generation or two. Elite Manhattan School Defies Old Preppy Cartel: Amity Shlaes 2011-03-01T00:05:40Z As Oswald had foreseen, his relatives overwhelmed Georges with reproaches for the part he had borne in a duel between his cousin and a parvenu. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The three heroines belong to an old family, which is devoted to old ways, old furniture, and has an aversion to anything which savors of modernity and the parvenu. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z Many a time he was disposed to throw himself at her feet, and disclose his early history; but her father—it was from her mother she derived the stamp of aristocracy—was a parvenu. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z A parvenu, who had set up his carriage in great state, went to a harness-maker to have "a silver letter" put on the blinders of his horses. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z It flattered the rough parvenu to think that the hand of a Countess Morynska was within his grasp. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z Widowed and without means, she had been quite willing to accept such a position in the establishment of the wealthy parvenu to whom she had been recommended by some one of her highborn relatives. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z They were enchanted with the discovery that they were not mere parvenus like distant Serbia, but descendants of that grand old house that had once conquered the world. Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z It is sufficient to have visited Berlin, the capital city of pinchbeck, of the gilded decorations of the parvenu, to form an idea of what our towns would have become. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z I suppose, indeed, that they would look on many dukes as parvenus of yesterday. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Nothing in him betrayed a trace of the parvenu. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Perhaps during their ride that parvenu had taken occasion to inflict some fresh mortification on his wife. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z She would not call him a parvenu—not wholly a parvenu—yet why should he trouble her? Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z The uncouth parvenu, who needed no dowry with his bride, and who felt flattered at the proposal of an alliance with a countess, eagerly consented to the plan. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z His thirst for power became predominant; his lavish contempt for men and money displayed the recklessness of a desperate parvenu; his passion for war burst all its bounds. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z He despised the family whom he served, realizing with the flair of his kind their status as parvenu. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z And one hears the last time these ghastly parvenus got together, there was some awful brouhaha in the billiard room over a lady. Man City v Chelsea ? live! 2010-09-25T10:44:00Z Rumours circulated of opaque accounting methods and boardroom rows, of a company too dependent on its jumped-up parvenu Levantine boss. How Polly Peck went from hero to villain in the City 2010-08-26T20:09:00Z The grumbler in Lucian indignantly complains of the fashion in which the ancient gods of Olympus are being overshadowed by the divine parvenus of every clime. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The Cashranger hops and vats, even done in the brightest parvenu or, would scarcely look well blazoned on the royal gules. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The people of the cities have the machine, which is prose and a parvenu. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry What do you think of the illiterate parvenus that are for ever rattling their money bags? Friend Mac Donald Any parvenu can sweep the population of a parish forth into Poplar and Lambeth; it may well pass the wit of man to bring their children back from Poplar and Lambeth to the land. Stand Up, Ye Dead He may have been patronised or insulted by a millionaire parvenu, like the Trimalchio of Petronius, tainted with the memories of a shameful servitude. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "Perhaps—at any rate they are led by your own daughter!" said Rollo, briefly, growing nettled at the parvenu grandee's seeming indifference. The Firebrand Chicago has perhaps suffered unduly at the hands of cursory and captious critics, but its society should not be judged by a hastily written paragraph or the clanking chains of the parvenu's carriage. With Edge Tools The high-born wealthy would treat me as a parvenu, the vulgar rich only reflect back my own errors in broader deformity. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) The latter are regarded by the former as parvenus, lacking the odor of sanctity that adheres to the citizens of "holy Moscow." Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Juvenal sprang from the lower middle class, which hated alike the degenerate noble and the insolent parvenu far more than it hated even a Domitian. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He might be a parvenu, in a certain sense, but he did not want to prove himself one to her. The Red Rat's Daughter One has the choice here between parvenu vulgarity and Puritanic narrow mindedness. With Edge Tools A droll world, and no wonder the parvenus want to upset it!” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Many new families had risen into prominence, and kings no longer hesitated to ennoble parvenus, a sure sign that the solidarity of the ancient nobility of the soil was broken. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) He was no longer considered a capital fellow, but was looked upon as a pushing parvenu. Black Diamonds Unlike so many parvenus, he had the good sense, the "e" always excepted, not to set himself up to be what he certainly was not. The Red Rat's Daughter You may have vulgar parvenus here, but where are they not to be found? With Edge Tools I see I pain you; and though I am what my very pleasant guests will call a parvenu, I comprehend your natural feelings as a gentleman of ancient birth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The mortified ambition of a parvenu is revengeful, and Goertz proceeds hence directly to his majesty.' Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna Such bold parvenus must be taught to curb their wishes. Black Diamonds Self-sufficiency and insufficiency are, for the most part, what fall to the share of parvenus. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty The latter virtually felt themselves on their own ground, for the host was known to have not much sympathy with parvenus, even titled ones, though the titles had been gained on the battle-field. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections This sailor, workman, philosopher, and parvenu trader, though a simple man in appearance, was by no means simple at bottom. Toilers of the Sea There are parvenus in religion, as there are parvenus in the aristocracy, in society, in literature, in the fine arts, etc. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things As for the new rich of the period, they almost all appear to us like parvenus. The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism The fellow will detect me for a "parvenu" long before we reach Malaga! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Herr Duehring treats us like that joke of Moliere on the parvenu who was informed that he had talked prose all his life without being aware of it. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" But so it is; there is no such tyrant as your parvenu. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I The parvenu is a person who makes strenuous efforts to persuade other people that he is entitled to the position he occupies. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Later, when Amsterdam has inherited the commercial hegemony of Antwerp, the importance of the parvenus characterizes it not less clearly. The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism Mrs. Yorba, who led society in the Eighties, when it was as exclusive as a small German principality, was disposed to snub all parvenus. Ancestors A Novel Since then these families have been kept up only by intermarriages with later parvenus. The Economic Functions of Vice Young and old, grandsire and maiden, beggar and parvenu jostled one another on the pavements. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 The worst type of Anglo-Saxon parvenu is probably the “unco guid,” or religious parvenu. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The fortunes acquired inn the wandering commerce by the parvenus of the eleventh and twelfth centuries soon transformed them into landed proprietors. The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism His ambition is the common, not to say vulgar, ambition of the English parvenu, to found a “county family.” Studies in Contemporary Biography Yet, ruler though he was, there were powers potenter than his own: Baalim, outraged at the elevation of a parvenu god; a priesthood consequently disaffected; and, without, at the gates, the foe. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal You are few, nevertheless, and like the parvenu rich, you must pass into something quite unlike yourself. The Kempton-Wace Letters In the old arbitrary times the Earl Marshal's men have been known to stop the carriage of a parvenu, and by force deface his illegally assumed arms. Old and New London Volume I Materialistic science was in the very heyday of its parvenu and tawdry intolerance, and historical knowledge in the splendid dawn of that new world of knowledge, of which Ranke was the Columbus. The History of Freedom Few rich parvenus have intruded among them; society is therefore exceptionally easy, simple, and unostentatious. Studies in Contemporary Biography His fellow-workers, of course, looked with envy upon this parvenu, who had only recently appeared among them and who now played the part of commander. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day I had not intended to answer your letter critically, but, on re-reading, find I am forced to speak if for no other reason than your epithet "parvenu." The Kempton-Wace Letters Compared with the ancient House of Habsburg or of Bourbon, the Hohenzollern may well be called the “parvenus” of royalty. German Problems and Personalities You shall see all dynasties date from mine, 'parvenu' though I be; and elected, yes, elected like yourself, and chosen from the crowd. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The house-party, numbering eighteen, consisted mostly of the parvenu set, people who having made money by trade were now attempting to pass as county families. The Count's Chauffeur No parvenu voyager he, but a young man of settled background and promising future, educated for his calling and going out to take his place in one of the Scottish firms trading in Virginia. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria I doubt not Elijah himself was dubbed parvenu when he fluttered with his golden harp into that bright-browed throng, pride-swollen for that they had fought with Michael when Lucifer was hurled into hell. The Kempton-Wace Letters But the very fact that the Hohenzollern are the “parvenus” of European royalty has spurred them on to more strenuous endeavours and to still higher ambitions. German Problems and Personalities The ex-cardinal does not care for Protestants; he finds them parvenus and bourgeois. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings Who can tell when this parvenu volcano may spout forth fire and ashes? The Naples Riviera The oligarchy of parvenus which arose after the Punic wars could not be respected as the Roman senate had been. General Bramble And on the wreck and ruin of chivalry they flaunted their parvenu insolence. The Kempton-Wace Letters She is, in both origin and character, a true aristocrat, while the dog is and always will be, a mere vulgar parvenu. Eighth Reader There was not a parvenu among them all; and there are no human assemblies about which that may be said. Finn The Wolfhound It's a derivative, a parvenu talent, and, I do feel it, I confess I do, a derivative personality altogether, like that of so many of these clever young men nowadays. Tante The year 1806 sees the parvenu emperor, now thirty-seven years of age, the master of all the better parts of Europe. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 To be sure, you are contemporary and you are parvenu. The Kempton-Wace Letters Licking the dust off his boots somehow, for that is what he likes, the parvenu! Angelot A Story of the First Empire I think these things and the Sphinx yields up his secret—the open secret of the Ghetto parvenu. Dreamers of the Ghetto The church is not the place to flaunt elegant attire in the face of less fortunate worshipers in the "I-am-richer-than-thou" style that marks the parvenu. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society There is the attitude of condescension, the arrogant tolerance of the proselyte and the parvenu: “So our forefathers used to do, for they were ignorant folk.” Eskimo Folk-Tales But, aristocratically speaking, most of this promiscuous young Europa are parvenus, and the few titled among them have heraldically no noble blood in their veins. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 I have always thought it quite possible that the beggar maid was a princess of an old dynasty and King Cophetua a parvenu. The Marriage of Elinor Although he was scarcely taller than the gross-paunched parvenu who had married his only sister, his slim form seemed to tower over him in easy elegance. Dreamers of the Ghetto Let it be once understood that such a display is the mark of social parvenus, of the newly-rich, and the custom will cease to exist. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The dignity of a parvenu cat admitted for the first time to unknown luxury is a lesson. The Maids of Paradise That is a low, parvenu seat in the Senate; what do you advise me, brother?’ Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 The conversation is very flat, and the descriptions are chiefly confined to long, gaudy inventories of rich parvenus' houses, which read like auctioneers' catalogues. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The room itself—Lassalle's cabinet—seemed in its simple luxuriousness to give point at once to the difference between the two men and to the parvenu's taunt. Dreamers of the Ghetto One understands from this why Rotterdam is rather looked down upon by the other two cities, and is regarded as a parvenu. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) She desired equality and she held parvenus in horror. Germinie Lacerteux And Ridokanaki was not, as they remarked, like one of those mere parvenus from South Africa or America. The Twelfth Hour The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young parvenu, and a musician. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century This state of things was directly due to Napoleon's policy of attaching everybody to himself by personal ties, and in giving he had the lavish hand of a parvenu. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) The nobleman, whose ancestry came over with the conqueror, is a parvenu in comparison with him. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter You always said you detested that ring—that it was very parvenu and so forth. Penny of Top Hill Trail The house of Febrer received as guest a parvenu noble, but recently risen from obscurity, whose achievements in a far off country, and whose visible riches, aroused both enthusiasm and criticism. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Montague, though of noble family, was the younger son of a younger son, and not rich: it was common among the Tories to sneer at him as a parvenu. Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Only Plymouth in the south-west is now of first-class consequence to the nation; and Plymouth is a parvenu compared with Looe and Fowey. The Cornwall Coast The parvenu was simply a person who had "got on": the disobliging slur of implication on his former position, and perhaps on his means of freeing himself from it, came later. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It was known who everybody was; parvenus were few; and there was still a flavour left of old-world traditions and colonial antecedents. A Red Wallflower Her supremacy was signalised in a striking way by the marriage of her parvenu emperor, whose divorce the pope still refused to recognise, with Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emperor of Austria. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) It has produced the power of the parvenu, not less brutal than European aristocracy, only narrower in vision and not less vulgar in taste. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Why, I can't catch even one glimpse of red and yellow damask, not one flutter of gold fringe; have the parvenus been taking lessons in good taste? Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter He has, however, the luck which makes the parvenu, if in this instance he can hardly be said to deserve it. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Whatsoever vices, whatsoever weaknesses were in the man, the parvenu will show us them enlarged, as in the solar microscope, into frightful distortion. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. If we judged New York by this orgie of tasteless extravagance, we might condemn it for a parvenu among cities, careless of millions and sparing of discretion. American Sketches 1908 Contempt is the resource of parvenus, prigs, ugly folk, and fools; it is the mask behind which nonentity shelters itself, and sometimes blackguardism; it dispenses with mind, judgment, and good-will. Tartarin On The Alps I don't know what has happened to the parvenus, my dear, but whether good or bad it has taken them away, liveries and all. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter There it lay, a constant and irresistible lure, especially to that parvenu and predatory Germanic Power which had appeared upon the European scene, as the offspring of treachery and violence, in 1871. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government He went to Dörmaul now, and took Daniel’s new work along with him; for the versatile parvenu, who always had a number of irons in the fire, also published music. The Goose Man We may not thus judge it New York, if it be a parvenu, is often a parvenu of taste, and has given many a proof of intelligence and refinement. American Sketches 1908 Suppose, to take wild and hypothetical examples, he were to marry a Scotch earl, say, to the daughter of a Jewish banker, or an English duke to an American parvenu of semi-Jewish extraction? Eugenics and Other Evils It now appeared that someone else—an outsider and a parvenu at that—had linked her name with that of Joe Hooper's to send her word through him. Stubble The good-humor and general acceptance on both sides, by chaffers and chaffed, testified to recognized conditions; and there is about a hoary institution a saving grace which cannot be transferred to parvenus. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Charles VIII. was young, light-brained, romantic, and ruled by parvenus who had an interest in disturbing the old order of the monarchy. New Italian sketches The satirists have made fun of the parvenu for centuries. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals That is, he let the London side of his shop to W. H. Johnson, the tailor and haberdasher, a parvenu little fellow whose English would not bear analysis. The Lost Girl Socially, he has always lived in a somewhat humble position, and it is to the credit of his nature as a man that he bears not the slightest trace of the parvenu. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 A sycophant to those who could serve him and a bully to those who could not, Rigby added the meanness of the social parvenu to the malignity of the political bravo. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Such a state of affairs would be almost humiliating, almost like the parvenu who calls in the wholesale furnisher and decorator to provide him with a home. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Not a singular ambition of the old miser, nor uncommon among parvenus. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico To wind up, he more than once pronounced the English to be parvenus. Diary in America, Series Two But the impudent parvenu sneered at my advice; “he knew no such person as Ali-Ninpha, and cared not a snap of his finger for a Fullah chief, or a beggarly white man!” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Oh, yes," continued Annie, "it is all very fine for us parvenus to despise race. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World Like many parvenus, it makes a great display of its Norman ancestor, the old castle, saying little about the long centuries of plebeian obscurity in which it was once buried. The Gypsies Although there is still an old noblesse in the Mexican republic, the titles are merely given by courtesy, and those who hold them are often outranked and eclipsed in style by the prosperous parvenu. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico These precautions taken, he remained in Paris, confidently awaiting the outbreak of his powder mines and the destruction of the parvenu. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette The parvenu, who is looking only to the filling up of his shelves with volumes of impressive size, may find satisfaction in contemplating wide backs. The Booklover and His Books "County people, you know," said Antonia with a slight sneer, "are always a little slow to us parvenus; we're so wonderfully fresh, you know; not worn out like the poor county folk." Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World He can stand for the sane and rational ideas and habits of life, without which society but personifies the unscrupulous and vulgar parvenu. Men in the Making The parvenus of the imperial government alone constituted the so called Bonapartists. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I The old Inn elbows it disdainfully on one side, and on the other a great modern stuccoed pile overtops it with a parvenu insolence. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray These parvenus were by no means ashamed of their origin or principles. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs And still Americans, everywhere Americans; rich and poor Americans, loud and quiet Americans; Americans who had taste and education, and some who had neither; well-dressed and over-dressed, obtrusive and unobtrusive, parvenu and aristocrat. The Lure of the Mask So it is: these revolutionists, these levellers, these men of the people, are never weary of reviling the French Emperor for being a parvenu. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General They cannot admit that it is these very parvenus who are the founders of new families and a new civilisation. Maxim Gorki Prince Gregoriev, though he was generally looked upon as a parvenu, had not, like most of that type, been born in the gutter. The Genius And the worst of it was that the Office of Works was not one of those parvenu institutions, set on foot by Men of Business, which welled up so irrepressibly on all sides. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 The Square was no place to bring up Hannah, among those parvenu Jews. The Little Mixer A few parvenus had bought property in the neighborhood, but the vicomte did not know them. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories In our country they are to be purchased; but we make a great difference between the parvenus of the present day and the ancienne noblesse.” Newton Forster The Merchant Service All that is for sale suggests a luxurious way of life—aristocratic and cultured existence, and certainly not the showy splendour of the parvenu. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 How shocking, a sensitive parvenu will say, to sit down in a common kitchen, and drink a glass of whiskey and water with peasants! Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 I have observed, in travelling through life—and so has the reader, no doubt—that parvenus are the greatest sticklers for aristocratic privilege; and Captain Ransom was no exception to this rule. The Rifle Rangers This smile, this condescending tap on the shoulder, revealed the parvenu most completely. A Hungarian Nabob He was a baronet of ancient name; No parvenu his daughter's hand should claim. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic That the parvenu ruler of the republic should so address a member not only of the old nobility but the old royalty, was more than she could bear. The Rose of Old St. Louis A parvenu, who has, by an act of slavish submission, won the Emperor's favor, may be ennobled, and he thenceforth holds his head as high as the greatest. Rabbi and Priest A Story The nearer to the fountain, the fouler the stream; and that first ancestor, who has soiled his fingers by labour, is no better than a parvenu. Short Studies on Great Subjects "He's a parvenu," he said to me in an undertone. The Nabob, Volume 1 He, when going away, left me near her as an adviser, a guardian for the time, even a protector, yes, a pro-tec-tor—the parvenu! the idiot! The Argonauts Besides this, as M. Leroy-Beaulieu truly remarks, though the oldest of the cultured races they are a race of parvenus in the good society of Europe. Historical and Political Essays These were not vulgar favorites of the Gilded Calf—parvenus gross and conceited. Ten Tales Other rulers, with no Yorkist bias, were slow to recognise the parvenu king and quick to profit by his difficulties. Henry VIII. It was the perfect type of the establishment improvised, immediately upon alighting from the railway train, by a parvenu of colossal wealth, in great haste to enjoy himself. The Nabob, Volume 1 Metropolitan magnificence, which, if the parvenu could not equal, he at least could imitate, seemed a poor return for the feudal splendour and impartial festivity of an Hungarian magnate. The Young Duke He is known to be a Camorrista; and though his salary is only a few thousand lire, he lives with the ostentation of a parvenu millionaire, and no one doubts where he gets his money. The Lady Paramount Mr. Temple being a man of family, had none of the awkward embarrassments of a parvenu to contend with. Henrietta Temple A Love Story New York is at present the paradise of parvenus, and these occasionally commit grotesque mistakes in the distribution of civilities. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 His Excellency bowed; the parvenu humbled himself lower than the earth; then they conversed for a moment. The Nabob, Volume 1 England offered the hand of fellowship to the Japanese parvenu simply because she wanted some one to hold her Russian rival in check. Banzai! by Parabellum Hundreds and hundreds of them have never been inside the house of a rich parvenu, nor have their women. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View As yet, the new-made emperor was a parvenu amid his royal contemporaries. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 She can assume the fine lady, without for an instant suggesting the parvenu. Shadows of the Stage His personal attire, though rich in quality, ill became his gawky figure, and there was that about his badly folded turban which bespoke the parvenu. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond This is the painting of the crowd, of the townsman, the workman, the parvenu, the man in the street; done wholly for him, done from him. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art A friend, who accompanied us in our drive yesterday evening, pointed out many of the best of them as belonging to button-makers, makers of sarsaparilla, and rich parvenus, who have risen from the shop counter. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 It has already resulted that a class of wealthy men is growing up in regard to whom the old sarcasms of the novels and the stage about parvenus are entirely thrown away. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other "I daresay his father is as well connected as mine," answered Beatrice, who knew all about her mother's having married a parvenu. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance I once heard a woman, the most perfect parvenu I ever met, speak of her poor relations in a tone exactly similar to that in which the clerk now spoke the names of two hotels. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' The nearer to the fountain the fouler the stream; and that first ancestor, who has soiled his fingers by labour, is no better than a parvenu. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc He then depicted to them all the ancient dynasties armed against his, devising plots, preparing wars, and seeking to destroy, in his person, the dangerous example of a roi parvenu. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 Man is thus made: none is more ready to abuse his right than he who, with difficulty, has acquired it; there are no tyrants worse than slaves, and no men prouder than parvenus. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution That line should have read "that elegance and etiquette which distinguish the well-bred from the parvenu of society, etc." The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution He was the executor and administrator of the policy of a parvenu Jew, one of the very bad men of the earth. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future A duke or a prince may be a parvenu. The Title Market His military bluntness disdained to disguise itself amidst those circles where a meaner parvenu would have been most ambitious to shine. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte The men of colour had all the vices of parvenus of liberty. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution His story is worthy of narration, as beingPg 36 no bad instance of the career of a Turkish parvenu, whose only qualifications were a little education and a large amount of effrontery. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Do away with the horde of money-bloated parvenus, who fatten and decay on the immoral profits they drag from Labour. A People's Man Brazil, feeling secure in the possession of a natural monopoly, made no effort to compete with these parvenus. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries They are a very old family, you know, and look down upon us as parvenus. The Half-Hearted Even in revolutions, the parvenu of liberty is long seen in the vanquisher. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution She was thoroughly able to look down upon a parvenu millionaire,—to look down upon such a one and not to pretend to despise him. An Eye for an Eye Besides which, as a matter of principle, I never put my trust in princes, except in the parvenus. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Another conference ten years later likewise failed, but when the parvenu beet sugar ventured to invade the historic home of the cane the limit of toleration had been reached. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries She exerted herself, for, though he might be a parvenu, he was undeniably handsome. The Half-Hearted The parvenus of liberty are as thinskinned as the parvenus of fortune. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution And this incorporation is more than mere recognition: the parvenu god borrows something from the manners and attributes of the olympian society to which he is introduced. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Coke had formerly refused this match from the high demands of these parvenus. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 A parvenu, with a nobility altogether too recent! The Women of the Caesars Lewis was a dazzling figure; he should make a great match; money and pretty looks and parvenu blood were not enough for his high mightiness. The Half-Hearted Rubens, who was a man of culture and an intellectual parvenu, tried desperately to combine his natural tastes with classical subjects. Essays on Art And then he set up such a headless howl, That all the saints came out and took him in; And there he sits by St. Paul, cheek by jowl; That fellow Paul—the parvenu! English Satires The parvenu millionaire—the cotton lord—harbors these ruffians by refusing to prosecute poachers. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment The Roman aristocracy, like all other aristocracies, hated the parvenus, the men of sudden riches, traffickers who had too quickly become wealthy, and all persons whose only aim was to amass money. The Women of the Caesars At its fall the ancestral acres of how many spendthrift heirs have passed away from their families forever into the hands of wealthy plebeian parvenus! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Rubens makes no comment at all: his attitude towards the classical is that of the wondering parvenu. Essays on Art To watch the Church in the world is to be reminded of a poor relation from the provinces sitting silent and overawed in the gilded drawing-room of a parvenu. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster They talked much about "the old New Yorkers," and of the inroads and devastations of the parvenu. Sevenoaks It is the dignified habitation of a poor gentleman, breathing a charm not to be found in the house of a rich parvenu. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality They have nothing of the uneasy look of the parvenu about them. Vanishing England Charles VIII. was young, light-brained, romantic, and ruled by parvenus, who had an interest in disturbing the old order of the monarchy. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series People will say he was a vulgar parvenu, a sycophant, a snob—heaven knows what. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill A parvenu must be very careful; but a scion of the House of Shang, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, could unbend and be jolly without loss of dignity;—and, were he a Confucius, would. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 A dinner interlarded with a row of extra entrées, Roman punch, and hot dessert is unknown except at a public dinner, or in the dining-room of a parvenu. Etiquette In the confederation of animated nature some races can boast of an immemorial antiquity, whilst others are comparative parvenus. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science My would-be Jupiter, a parvenu is told again He's not the true Olympian, Jack-in-the-Box is "Sold Again!!!" Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 On the next page the Chancellor of the Exchequer—snub-nosed parvenu and Puritan—admirably caught. The Marriage of William Ashe Imitation of culture is often the last touch that makes the parvenu unbearable; it was so in Rome. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The story is that of a parvenu, whose sole object in life, to be recognised by "Society," is thwarted by the marriage of his good-for-nothing son with the daughter of an Irish lodging-house keeper. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 After they return to their frames, thirty young couples dance a ballet, and when they finish, the parvenu wakes up. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 "And what a parvenu the baron would have been to the Roman aristocrat!" The Last Shot But Kolina had no feelings of the parvenu, and she was always a general favorite. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 "A parvenu, like that other ill-looking fellow who pranced on the left, with his fiery eyes and his black skin." The Forty-Five Guardsmen He had thrown his hardships at her like a parvenu his riches. The Dark House A parvenu buys an ancestral castle, and on his arrival there falls asleep in the great hall, filled with the portraits of ancestors and knights in armor. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 Whatsoever vices, whatsoever weaknesses were in the man, the parvenu will shew us them enlarged, as in the solar microscope, into frightful distortion. Past and Present He gave way helplessly; gripped at the same moment by his parvenu's ambition, and by the genuine passion for beautiful things lodged oddly in some chink of his common and Philistine personality. Lady Connie But it seems strange that they always rebuke it as if it were a blind vulgarity like the red plush of a parvenu; a mere insensibility to a mere incongruity. The New Jerusalem You have talked grandly about Queens, and Dukes, and actresses, and, in the end, you have put us off with a wretched story about the parvenu DABCHICK. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 I am inclined to think that Filipinos concern themselves with the present rather than the past, and that the parvenu finds it even easier to win his way with them than with us. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines He has risen from a sailor, and is considered by the Archontes rather in the light of a parvenu. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I And it was easy to see too that the youth was inordinately proud of his Polish ancestry, and inclined to rate all Englishmen as parvenus and shopkeepers. Lady Connie The women, too, of the parvenus always drag them down. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 It is the characteristic of parvenu society to imitate smart society to the best of its ability, and its social functions are a parody of the like events in the upper set. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature The historical aristocracy becomes impoverished and weak; before it rise to power the millionaires, the parvenus, the great capitalists, enriched in the provinces. Characters and events of Roman History One is the scion of a lordly house, "to the manner born"—the other, the parvenu of yesterday, whose gold makes his position. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Only the fools and the parvenus trumpeted themselves; a process in any case not worth while, since it defeated its own ends. Lady Connie German home-life is ceasing to be the admirable and exemplary thing it was before the present era of class rivalry, commercialism, the parvenu and the snob. William of Germany This is the worn-out cant of England; and yet, when reform has been brought to the touchstone, its greatest opponents have been found among the parvenus. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland It was enough for us to look at each other—and the parvenu would not come near us any more. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated Though there was no "College of Heralds" in antiquity, it was commonly quite possible for a wealthy parvenu to get a pedigree invented for him. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Orders and ranks they kept degree, Few felt how the parvenu pines, No law-maker took the lawless one's fee In the Age of the Antonines! John Marr and Other Poems There is also, as a concomitant of the nation's growth in wealth of every sort, and mostly perhaps to be found in the capital a class of Jewish parvenu, remarkable for snobbishness, ostentation, and affectation. William of Germany The hostility that prevails between the peer and the parvenu is the most natural thing in the world, and is no more to be wondered at than that between the hare and the hound. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Behold your privileged ones, your folks overwhelmed with fortune, your parvenus, your favourites of that horrid stepmother Fortune! The Man Who Laughs Refinement follows wealth, but not often closely, as witness the parvenu people even in dear England…. What I Remember, Volume 2 They took possession of the throne as though they had only been absent on a pleasure excursion, and, ignoring twenty years of parvenu glory, affected to be merely continuing an uninterrupted sovereignty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 It must also be remembered that Akenside possessed a delicate constitution, keen senses, and irritable nerves; and that he was a parvenu, lacking the power of self-control even among strangers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The hoary sages of ancient China are being supplanted by the intellectual parvenu of the type of Bentham and Mill. Bushido, the Soul of Japan Thoughts are no parvenus or novi homines in Nature, but came in with that Duke William who first struck across the unnamed seas into this island of time and material existence which we inhabit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 King Louis felt this, and, in order to conciliate his court, he often saw himself compelled to humiliate "the parvenus" who had forced themselves among the former. Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era It needs none of the parvenu's hauteur and pomp to support his dignity. Hodge and His Masters The alliance of this parvenu 'Phanariot' aristocracy with the conservative Orthodox Church was not unnatural, for the Church itself had greatly extended its political power under Ottoman suzerainty. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey I confess that at first it gratifies one's vanity; but only a spiritual parvenu would find it sufficient to fill the whole life, or take the place of real happiness. Without Dogma He can cull the commoners from the parvenu aristocrats, and put them in their respective places as skilfully as an expert horse-dealer can draft his stock at a sale. My Brilliant Career The Prussian has the inconsistency of the parvenu; he will labour to prove that he is related to some gentleman of the Renaissance, even while he boasts of being able to "buy him up." The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian My copy is pretty, as I have improved a good deal on the whole; but my work looks parvenu. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Was he,—a man of ancient and noble family;—to be hastily condemned by his fellow-nobles on the word of this 'foreigner', as he contemptuously called Cicero—this parvenu from Arpinum? Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers She ridiculed keenly the pride of fools, the vanity of parvenus, and, feeling herself of the people to her very finger-ends, she thought herself more noble than all the patricians and aristocrats of the earth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 How is this parvenu people going to stand the cessation of hope, the realisation of the failure and fruitlessness of such efforts as no people on earth have ever made before? What is Coming? Nobody could accuse him of being a snob or parvenu. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti That was their parvenu blood: to think because a girl's father worked for their grandfather she had no right to be rather striking in style, especially when the striking WAS her style. Alice Adams But the parvenu of Arpinum—the 'new man', as aristocratic jealousy always loved to call him—is by no means insensible to the true honours of ancestry. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers He was but a parvenu, and his riches had only produced an accumulation of snobbishness. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist And when it came to blood, beside her I was parvenu. The Red One As the trapper stood there in his grotesque rags and odds and ends of apparel, his gentlemanliness of deportment brought into relief the innate vulgarity of a rich parvenu. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Preacher and parvenu were alike making a grandstand play. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Nobs was a parvenu; but it failed to worry him. The People That Time Forgot Whoever else are parvenus, the Smiths are not parvenus. Heretics Even the markets that once defied the parvenu have crept one by one across the seas, and then slowly and reluctantly, but surely, have started toward the Black Belt. The Souls of Black Folk It is the fashion in the conservative Faubourg St. Germain, to ridicule the President, his wife and their bourgeois surroundings, as forty years ago the parents of these aristocrats affected to despise the imperial parvenus. Worldly Ways and Byways Gnaw thy bone in peace, for the people, schooled to patience and amused with panaceas, will scarce resent the trampling of one more parvenu upon their necks, be she ever so broad of beam. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Their houses are no longer lay hermitages, and their opera boxes are regularly filled, but no foreigner is ever received, no ambitious parvenu accepted among them. The Ways of Men The persons who do suffer are those of the middle classes, not the parvenus, but those who bid fair to become parvenus when misfortune overtook them. The Count's Millions And it should be in no wise for show—the gross ostentation of the unlettered parvenu—but a genuine library, which should minister to his own individual culture. The Market-Place Relations they apparently have none, which accounts for the curious phenomenon that a parvenu is never in mourning. Worldly Ways and Byways Perchance in time the American people may become ashamed of having been thrown into a panic by the painful effort of a pudgy parvenu to outdo even the Vanderbilts in ostentatious vulgarity. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 A drawing-room filled with heat, the source of which remains invisible, is as characteristic of the parvenu as clanking chains on a harness or fine clothes worn in the street. The Ways of Men Kings of France could condone a witticism even against themselves, a parvenu could not.'' The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 You would have sworn he had been a parvenu of yesterday, yet he had been all his life in good society. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 As it would be unjust to demand a mature mind in the overgrown boy, it is useless to hope for delicate tact and social feeling from the parvenu. Worldly Ways and Byways From another point of view he is a parvenu, narrow, overbearing, ostentatious, proud, conceited, uncultivated. The United States Since the Civil War The summons was promptly obeyed, but the expected scene of humiliation of the untried parvenu was rudely interrupted at an early period of the debate. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate As an heir of the old order, he saw how vulgar and mercenary was this parvenu imperial glory, won at the expense of lost liberties and broken hearts. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse He quitted his position and his post as a parvenu and revolutionary monarch, opposing in Europe the ancient courts as the republic had opposed the ancient governments. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 She had all the pride of a parvenu, and all the narrowness of mind common to a woman who lives in a world of her own creation. The Lovels of Arden Titled villains, impossible parvenus, abductions, and convents abound in its pages, and all are as stupid as they are improbable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 It is said, wives of military men, sprung from the hotbeds of the revolutions, ignorant and full of pretensions, as parvenus who have risen by chance and not by merit must be. Life in Mexico In such an age, when virtue is praised and vice practised, the age of the libertine, the parvenu, the forger, the murderer, it is hard not to write satire. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Such are the modern parvenus, whose craving appetites, in eating and drinking, as in every thing else, are not easily satiated. Paris as It Was and as It Is Mr. Wooster's villa was almost perfection in its way; but there was something of that ostentatious simplicity whereby the parvenu endeavours sometimes to escape from the vulgar glitter of his wealth. The Lovels of Arden As he said himself, "I am a parvenu." Lord Kilgobbin As it had nothing to do with, our alleged offences, I could not understand its object, except that it was a certain weakness of this parvenu to glory in his supposed ancestors. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People He's a very influential deputy, a /parvenu/ of the new middle class. The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4 The first insect known to have existed, a creature of such vast antiquity that it deserves all the respect which the parvenu man can summon and offer to it, was—a cockroach. The Naturalist on the Thames "Pompous, insufferable parvenu," thought Clarissa, to whom this desire on Mr. Granger's part seemed only an odious eagerness to exhibit his wealth. The Lovels of Arden Since the war there has been ground into the French the more awful inhumanities of which these parvenus are capable. The World Decision Waizero Terunish was proud; she always looked on her husband as a "parvenu," and took no pains to hide from him her want of respect and affection. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Pope is always the parvenu, always giving himself the airs of a fine gentleman, and, like Horace Walpole and Byron, affecting superiority to professional literature. Among My Books First Series In order to remove the stigma attached to him as a parvenu, Napoleon also began to form matrimonial alliances between his family and the most ancient houses of Europe. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 The result is that much ill-feeling is engendered in society, and people whom these old aristocrats call the "nouveaux riches," "parvenus," etc., are always having their feelings hurt. Manners and Social Usages He was one of those young parvenus of the second generation who form an aristocracy of letters, and are the patricians of the Third Republic. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Like other revolutionists and parvenus generally, Lerroux is a victim of the superstition of champagne. Youth and Egolatry As I was saying, at home I can live like a tradesman, a parvenu, and be up to any games I like, but here everything must be en grand. Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series But his Most Christian Majesty merely sneered, accounted it more empty boasting on the part of the parvenu, and dismissed it from his mind. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series A true parvenu, she had quickly learned to suspect and despise the credentials of other intruders. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People Such as it was, it could not consent to ally itself with parvenus, ennobled but to-day, and yesterday still bowing down before "gods of silver and gods of gold." Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history It is not the noble, it is the parvenu, who has only to grow rich, in order to forget those whom in poverty he hailed as his friends. My Novel — Complete I own," said Levy, "that I have what some may call a weakness in a /parvenu/ like myself. My Novel — Volume 12 His Eminence deplored a fine chance lost through the excessive power that was wielded in England by the parvenu. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series The baron's style of living was of that character especially affected both by the most acknowledged exquisites of that day, and, it must be owned, also, by the most egregious /parvenus/. My Novel — Volume 09 Though of celebrated and historical ancestry, great rank, and some personal reputation, he had all the ambition of a parvenu. Ernest Maltravers — Complete I own," said Levy, "that I have what some may call a weakness in a parvenu like myself. My Novel — Complete It is not the noble, it is the /parvenu/, who has only to grow rich, in order to forget those whom in poverty he hailed as his friends. My Novel — Volume 12 Though of celebrated and historical ancestry, great rank, and some personal reputation, he had all the ambition of a /parvenu/. Ernest Maltravers — Volume 07 It is your /parvenu/ who is most particular as to the cut of his coat, and the precision of his equipage, and the minutia, of his menage. My Novel — Volume 09 The venality of the officials gives the heartless parvenu free scope for his arbitrary misdeeds, and without let or hindrance he persecutes all who are suspected of modernizing tendencies. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) They call our friend the wit a parvenu, and submit to all his insolence—if they condescend to regard his birth at all—provided they can but get him to dinner. My Novel — Complete Cicero was therefore a novus homo, a parvenu, as we should say, and this made the struggle for honours which occupied the greater part of his career, both unusual and arduous. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Of course Plank owed him more than he could ever pay—the ungrateful parvenu!—but what Plank had thought of that cheque transaction he had never been able to discover. The Fighting Chance They call me a /parvenu/, and borrow my money. My Novel — Volume 09 Gazing at his mansion and its surrounding tokens of magnificence, she enthusiastically gave vent to a compliment which, however clever she might think it, was not calculated to flatter the pride of a parvenu. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 They call the best debater in the parliament of England a parvenu, and will entreat him, some day or other, to be prime minister, and ask him for stars and garters. My Novel — Complete There were a few parvenus among them who had bought properties here and there, but the vicomte did not know them. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Under the cast-iron law of sale most of the original zemindars lost their estates, which passed into the hands of parvenus saturated with commercialism. Tales of Bengal They call our friend the wit a /parvenu/, and submit to all his insolence—if they condescend to regard his birth at all—provided they can but get him to dinner. My Novel — Volume 09 Everyone of any rank who employed the titles by which the parvenu monarch desired to be called, did so as a recognised jest. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 The baron's style of living was of that character especially affected both by the most acknowledged exquisites of that day, and, it must be owned, also, by the most egregious parvenus. My Novel — Complete It is wonderful what good use a parvenu can make of his money nowadays, and how rarely he disgraces himself by any marked offences against good taste. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The new nobles rapidly drew aloof from the residuum of the plebs, and, in the true parvenu spirit, aped and outdid the arrogance of the old patricians. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History They call the best debater in the parliament of England a /parvenu/, and will entreat him, some day or other, to be prime minister, and ask him for stars and garters. My Novel — Volume 09 Ah!" continued Flockart, "in Scotland the old families are gradually decaying, and their estates are falling into the hands of blatant parvenus. The House of Whispers It is your parvenu who is most particular as to the cut of his coat, and the precision of his equipage, and the minutia, of his menage. My Novel — Complete There are so many people at hand to teach the parvenu how to furnish his house, or how to choose his stud. Phantom Fortune, a Novel "The Poor's Piece appears to be a sort of No Man's Land, and ever since the extinction of Vestrydom has been within the parochial administrative parvenu of the Urban District Council." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 The freedom is still too great for this entry to the Senate; the serrata hath done its work too lightly if it leave space for one parvenu! A Golden Book of Venice It was his misfortune to fall into the fault of excess as it is the misfortune of most parvenus. The Velvet Glove And he, son of a parvenu, led the life of a rich, elegant idler. Fruitfulness Beside them, the brain and the face and the prehensile organs are mere parvenus. The Glands Regulating Personality The newly ennobled parvenus were worse than the old boyars; they hugged the serf system more lovingly and the serfs more hatefully. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Many a city older by far looks parvenu beside Great Chart. England of My Heart : Spring But Senator Sprague was too firmly enshrined in the loyalty of the district to be overcome by the parvenu's manoeuvres or his money. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Here a prince, scion of a noble house, there a parvenu, fresh from his latest stock-jobbing victory. The Secrets of the German War Office Human nature, as fallen angel or ape parvenu, has always looked upon itself as fixed for eternity. The Glands Regulating Personality "They say, Minna, that all the parvenus are going this year, so I suppose we shall have to go along." The Potiphar Papers But they are parvenu people as compared with thought and action. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display. The Iron Game A Tale of the War This was a necessary move of the parvenu as money is the first and last word in the Balkans. The Secrets of the German War Office To grow richer than those who thus insulted him, to blazon abroad reports of his wealth, and to watch opportunities of using it to their injury, became the means of revenge adopted by the parvenu. Stories by English Authors: Ireland Then we are going to Berlin to knock down all the ugly statues in the Sieges-Allee and smash the parvenu German Empire. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Honour was satisfied: the parvenu and the scion of the ancient race had crossed swords over the reputation of one of the most dissolute women in France. I Will Repay "Besides, he hasn't any of the arrogance of a parvenu, and is much too——" "Too what?" Love, the Fiddler Conspicuous consumption of imported products by vulgar parvenus is no substitute to true modernity and a functioning economy. Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era The agent is making Herculean efforts to bamboozle an unsuspecting parvenu into buying an example of some very "advanced" painting. The Galleries of the Exposition She was "to the manner born," he a parvenu with a restless ambition to outshine. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend Exceptionally gifted and accomplished players easily got the upper hand of the decrepit Capellmeisters of the old sort, and of their successors, the parvenus without authority—pianoforte pedagogues patronized by ladies in waiting, etc., etc. On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Her conversation, at home and abroad, had the vulgar self-assertiveness of the parvenu, and turned always and wholly upon her own greatness. The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History The Russian parvenus - many of them women - do not believe their state, their banks, or their compatriots. Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era In this gallery, easily located by two large parvenu portraits of dubious merit, are some others which are really vital expressions of modern art. The Galleries of the Exposition I always imagined him loud, vulgar, the typical parvenu. Will Warburton We have probably heard the last of this parvenu and his loudly trumpeted schemes. Demos There was no difference in her politeness to the men of the old nobility or to the parvenus of victory. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X You must not be offended if I call you a parvenu in spite of your birth. Mr. Hogarth's Will Yes, you have a parvenu's presumptuousness somewhere about you. Touch and Go I am a parvenu, my dear fellow; I don't intend to let my swaddling-clothes be seen. Balzac As doing nothing wearied him, he attempted, like the parvenu, to give some meaning to life by work. The Widow Lerouge Still, the brother did not ill to be angry; and the peevishness of the hero against the brother and the parvenu lord and rival strikes a jarring note. Alfred Tennyson The tone in which he spoke was less pleading than commanding, and roused the anger of the easily enraged parvenu. Frederick the Great and His Family The furniture is very costly, and reminds one of the parvenu. Old Fritz and the New Era This too from such a man, a clerical parvenu, a man without a cure, a mere chaplain, an intruder among them; a fellow raked up, so said Dr. Grantly, from the gutters of Marylebone! Barchester Towers I ought not to bring into your world, which is now mine, the manners of a parvenu. The Widow Lerouge Be New; not parvenu or ingenue, but plain up and down New is what you need to be. Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica If Mr Oriel be a parvenu, Beatrice's children won't be well born merely because their father was a clergyman, even though he is a rector. Doctor Thorne By the parvenu—his definition may not be scientific—he seems to mean a person who is vulgar, but has money, and tries to get into society on the strength of his money alone. Their Pilgrimage "Shall our pride be less than this parvenu's?" she faltered. Hard Cash In 1870 the American steel maker was the parvenu of the trade. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry I suppose your daughter regarded me as a parvenu, an upstart, an ignoramus," I remarked "No, not at all. The Rise of David Levinsky It is the repose and not the struggle of the parvenu that confounds us. A First Family of Tasajara You may be sure some of the proud people and most of the parvenus of the Club were ready to blackball him. The Book of Snobs You must pay the penalty for loving a parvenu's son. Hard Cash How fatal to the parvenu, throughout history, has been this respect for shoebuckles. The Second Funeral of Napoleon It was a babel of blatant self-consciousness, a miniature of the parvenu smugness that had spread like wild-fire over the country after a period of need and low spirits. The Rise of David Levinsky One of these was a middle-aged man of very respectable appearance, but with the stamp of parvenu upon him, a man whom nobody knew, and who evidently knew nobody. The Idiot These parvenus, sir, betray their origin—betray their origin. Roundabout Papers Your sovereigns, born to the throne, may be beaten twenty times over and yet return to their capitals: I cannot do this, because I am a parvenu soldier. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Other similar lives.—Princes and princesses.—Seigniors of the court.—Financiers and parvenus.—Ambassadors, ministers, governors, general officers. The Ancient Regime The new society was composed largely of these parvenus, who were ambitious for a position and a life of which they had neither the spirit, the taste, the habits, nor the mellowing traditions. The Women of the French Salons This too from such a man, a clerical parvenu, a man without a cure, a mere chaplain, an intruder among them; a fellow raked up, so said Dr Grantly, from the gutters of Marylebone! Barchester Towers Does a stand-up collar with a tennis shirt prove that you are of noble descent, or, on the contrary, stamp you as a parvenu? The Angel and the Author, and others Places and positions, vacant due to the promotion of so many parvenus, provided in their turn a vast career to the lower classes. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Naturally the parvenus, the financiers who have purchased or taken the name of an estate, all those traffickers and sons of traffickers who, since Law, associate with the nobility, imitate their ways. The Ancient Regime In a sense this elm was a mere parvenu as compared with its beloved dancers. Yet Again It was deemed advisable that his lordship should marry Money, and Money, in the person of the only daughter of rich and ambitious parvenus, had offered itself—or, to speak more correctly, had been offered. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green It was obviously the kind of interior improvised the moment he was out of the railway-train by a gigantic parvenu in haste to enjoy. The Nabob But the art of assorting company is above these parvenus. Crotchet Castle Alas! the Bonaparte has left us, and besides, he was not the descendant of a royal house, and was, like the present Emperor of the French, a decided parvenu. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Then came my paternal grandfather, with his strong parvenu physiognomy, and my father at all ages. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels He was not haughty, and never presumed on his plate, as parvenus will. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) "He is a parvenu," he muttered to me in a low voice. The Nabob She was the wife of a swindling parvenu gentleman. Men's Wives Still, the Emperor of the French, if only a parvenu, bears himself right imperially among sovereigns, and has no peer among any of the descendants of the old royal families of Europe. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Paris has seen two or three parvenus of this kind,—men whose success is a disgrace, both to the epoch and to those who have lent them their shoulders. The Brotherhood of Consolation This imitation of Napoleon's glance was a silly satire, then popular with certain parvenus who had never seen so much as the base coin of their emperor. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau His excellency bowed slightly, the parvenu humbled himself lower than the earth, then they chatted for a moment. The Nabob She was strikingly like her mother, but with that shade of greater distinction which in the descendants of parvenus increases from generation to generation as they advance from their source. The Deputy of Arcis They have intermarried with parvenus and Americans for generations. The Yellow Crayon A visit which surprised Godefroid greatly was that of the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne, one of the highest personages in aristocratic society, whose salon was inaccessible to the bourgeoisie and to parvenus. The Brotherhood of Consolation Splendor worthy of a parvenu sovereign was to be seen even in the smallest details. Massimilla Doni Only he was a modest man, and took as much pains to conceal his fortune, and offend no one, as most parvenus do to display their wealth, and insult the public. Other People's Money It's pretty much the same with the comic clothes of the parvenu. The Man Who Knew Too Much It will take me a week to get used to my home and not to look like a parvenu in it——" "My home! Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Enriched bourgeois, parvenus! there's the roof beneath which you think to rest from your cruel labor and your many trials! The Lesser Bourgeoisie The most supercilious parvenu would have felt it ignoble to care for the frame in which this glorious old apostle of the musical religion lived and moved and had his being. A Daughter of Eve However poor a daughter of the Claes might be, she would bring to a husband the dower of social vanity so eagerly desired by all parvenus. The Alkahest All the military, not excepting their chief, reveled like parvenus in the treasure conquered for them by a million men with worsted epaulettes, whose demands were satisfied by a few yards of red ribbon. Domestic Peace To be sure, he doesn't admire over heartily the parvenus of steel or oil, whose too sudden money takes them to the divorce court; he calls them the 'yellow rich'; do you object to that? Lady Baltimore These parvenus have all the vices of the great lords of other days without their elegance. The Lesser Bourgeoisie He thought himself superior to all those parvenus, whose success inspired him with consuming jealousy. A Daughter of Eve The old gentleman bosses his harem outrageously, and each and every member of the tribe walks about with short steps and a stuffy parvenu small-town self-sufficiency. The Land of Footprints The whole of the educated classes—men of old family and parvenus alike—were, with few exceptions, too much engrossed with place-hunting to attend to such sentimental wailing. Russia Through this easy gap emerged into life the rich supernumeraries who drove their tilburys, dressed well, and wore moustachios, all of them as impudent as parvenus. Bureaucracy The self-taught man is in the end only the parvenu of knowledge, and just as the parvenu, as such, rarely conceals his character, so the autodidact rarely conceals his character. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students She minced apologetically upon the market-place; the parvenu Town Hall patronized and protected her as if she were a poor relation.... Soul of a Bishop That was the luxury which Goriot's daughter had loved too well, the gilding, the ostentatious splendor, the unintelligent luxury of the parvenu, the riotous extravagance of a courtesan. Father Goriot Many a shirt of fine linen, ruffled and embroidered, according to the latest fashion, disguises the graceless person of some rascally parvenu—and usurer as well perhaps—who usurps the place of his betters. Captain Fracasse "Though de Marsay was rich when he started in life he was an exception," said the host, a parvenu named Finot, ambitious of seeming intimate with these young men. Ursula "Because Fernand and Danglars, being both parvenus, both having become noble, both rich, are about equal in worth, excepting that there have been certain things mentioned of him that were never said of me." The Count of Monte Cristo "Louis XIV. came very near marrying the niece of Mazarin, a parvenu." Ursula |
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