"Hoi polloi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be assigned the volumes contained in the average second-hand bookseller's shop in this country. They are the [Greek: hoi polloi] among books, and for the most part they include the more frequent and more modern English works. Usually they are quite desirable copies, though frequently they lack a portrait or other plate, sometimes they have a torn or mounted title-page, or other ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... the bones in place, to the mighty astonishment of the natives, who mistook the feat for an attempt to make a living animal; and when the beast was not at last saddled and bridled there were subdued chuckles of satisfaction among the "hoi polloi" at the failure of the scheme, and murmurs ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard |
