Une invitation m'est d'ailleurs parvenue par e-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quechup = spammeurs — Climb to the Stars] Reference

La lettre m'est parvenue dans un bien mauvais etat.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

Faubourg St. Germain scorning the parvenue of the Tuileries?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

And as for a parvenue, well that would be Sarah Palin would it not.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dreams Come True] Reference

Quel avertissement la dame lui avait-elle donné -- Est-ce que la paysanne est parvenue à s'expliquer cette manie de Madame?.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

Others, proud of their husbands 'standing and of their wealth, could not invent enough unspoken affronts and patronizing phrases to humiliate the little parvenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

My comment that arms control is not the exclusive parvenue of this nation of ours, especially considering that we are the largest arms dealers in the world, stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Impeachment? No Problem. Think Nixon and President Pelosi] Reference

She was almost a parvenue in their old cultured milieu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

Cette nouvelle étant parvenue à Hadjadj, il répondit: 'Me voilà.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

They are not a parvenue family, but date from the days of Richard III.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

Je m'empresse de vous remercier de votre lettre du 15, qui m'est parvenue hier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

Problem is, undoing the damage this halfwit political-parvenue is doing will take a LOONG time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference

I suppose he takes after his mother, who is but a parvenue, I've heard them say at the Towers. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

"Ah! there is nothing like old families!" remarked Mrs. Million, with all the awkward feelings of a parvenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

This repugnance, stamped on her forehead, on her lips, and ill-disguised, was taken for the insolence of a parvenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village Rector] Reference

Cela fait une éternité que l'extrême droite sud-africaine n'était pas parvenue à organiser un tel rassemblement.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Tensions raciales en Afrique du Sud] Reference

The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

That madcap, semi-Slavic milieu - with its unstable mixture of sentiment and brutality, fatalism and parvenue initiative - really got his satirical genius percolating.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Une invitation m’est d’ailleurs parvenue par e-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quechup = spammeurs — Climb to the Stars] Reference

A shrewd little parvenue, that was all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bel Ami] Reference

She recognized her; and the very next day this parvenue said adroitly, "Now.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simpleton] Reference

O envied little parvenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference

The idea of the comic parvenue is ancient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadows of the Stage] Reference