Crossword-Solution: PARVENUS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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.

And it seemeth thy especial delight to bring unto the lonely in desert places the companionship that exalteth humanity! It makes me groan to think of the number of Elzevirs that are lost in the libraries of rich parvenus who know nothing of and care no thing for the treasures about them further than a certain vulgar vanity which is involved.

Parvenus are like monkeys, whose cleverness they possess; we watch them climbing, we admire their agility, but once at the summit we see only their absurd and contemptible parts.

The nobility wanted girls with money to manure their lands, and the parvenus of to-day want the same to feather their nests.” “That’s exactly what Monsieur Thuillier was saying to me this morning,” remarked la Peyrade, boldly.

The position of this man, who, like many parvenus, having once made his fortune, reverted to his early faith in the old families, and sought to attach himself to them, was now being made use of by the two members of the Paris police whose profession had been so quickly guessed by Michu, and who, before going to Gondreville had reconnoitred the neighborhood.