How To Use plebe In A Sentence
- Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
- The greatest bar to women's participation was the common-law principle of coverture, although it should be noted that the status and authority of married women in plebeian families likely permitted them a good deal of behind-the-scenes involvement in any legal matters confronting their families. Gutenber-e Help Page
- Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
- ‘Yes, beautiful, sexy, passionate, sweet Emily,’ he said like a plebe.
- As a result, bullfighting was left to the plebeians who in turn enthusiastically took up to its practice, and took it to heart as a symbol of something genuinely Spanish.
- Individualism has such essential and non-essential characteristics as plebeianism, freedom, democracy and aggression.
- Chiefly, such activities were processional - arrivals of ambassadors and potentates, with plebeian doings relegated to the wings.
- Amid abandoned houses, plebeian hovels and piles of refuse and sewage, there were government offices, arms factories, official warehouses, and active markets.
- In the working-class saloons that lined the roughest sections of late nineteenth-century Chicago, refusing a man's treat violated rules of plebeian sociability and thus frequently triggered brawls.
- It had nothing to do with militarism or with the violent sports that had brought aristocrats and plebeians together around the prize-fight or cock-fight.
