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Sentence Examples I also tried to do a Holly impression, but that's hard when you don't have dark hair and you're from Eastern European peasant stock. Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows. He was the independent master of a peasant household, whose position was protected by the king's law. That is, it is Moira that determines who shall be slave or master, peasant or warrior, citizen or non-citizen, Greek or barbarian. The peasant in charge of laundry duty, a thickset, intimidating woman of considerable age, looked Kelly up and down with a beady, critical eye. He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole. When China was thrown into chaos by the 1931 Japanese invasion, he came to see the peasant villages as the strength of a new future. A man who obviously could not afford water to bath in was a true peasant indeed. Kimono night robes, Turkish peasant tops and embroidered, beaded skirts are just a few of the hot items that will be turning heads this season. Is it necessary for the peasant classes of agricultural nations to become urban or rural proletariats before a Socialist Revolution is possible? He had spent most of his life in a sequestered village in Little Russia, where he tilled the soil and even wore the national peasant costume. Here are to be found the fine earthworks of the long West Row of medieval peasant houses and their surrounding tofts and crofts. The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered. She is the woman with very short, dyed blonde hair and toreador pants and big hoop earrings and some sort of peasant blouse. Then the colonial governments had the idea, benignly intended, of protecting the peasant growers from the fluctuations of the marketplace. Indigenous, tribal, and peasant communities have been particularly hard hit. Dressed in their peasant outfits, we were supplied with Russian tea, blini and vodka. A short black skirt and white peasant blouse with loose, belled sleeves and low neckline soon followed. On such occasions, women will wear lacy white peasant blouses, black embroidered bodices, and white aprons. His blouses were peasant style with off-the-shoulder necklines and macrame detailing. Show More Sentences They both had blond, curly hair and were wearing skirts and peasant blouses. A rosy-cheeked woman in a peasant blouse, her hair piled on top of her head, tells me she hit on a guy outside earlier that night. It anticipates a different future, as yet unaccomplished, that will organize the peasant land in resistance to imperial threat. The opening scene begins with Ho Xuan Huong in Vietnamese peasant clothing, at the funeral of Commissioner Coc. Japan banned perms and required even geisha girls to wear the unbecoming peasant mompe. On the other side, a blowsy woman in peasant garb leans back on a swing, revealing a full view up her petticoats. But 300 years ago forks were unknown and the English peasant carried a multi-purpose knife on their belt to stab pieces of food. Top off the look with a belly skimming T-shirt or airy peasant blouse, flowing hippie hair, and a pair of beaded slides. The men of Yathreb were narrow-minded, of the peasant and shopkeeping spirit, and they lived parsimoniously on small profits and quick returns. More than 60 per cent of farmers in Zambia are smallholder or peasant farmers who depend largely on rain-fed agriculture. And in Bolivia, a peasant revolt grounded in opposition to neo-liberal policies recently unseated the pro-business president. Hence it appears that the most instructed peasant or artisan is practically a necessarian. This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description. Martin Guerre was a sixteenth-century French peasant who deserted his wife and family to become a soldier of fortune. He looked upon the peasant girls face to see that even nightfall could not deter her curious nature. It was said he could pick out a noble from a peasant in a room, even if they were all dressed in the finest robes of state. The peasant staples were rye bread, and porridge made from oats, buckwheat, or wheat. But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways. His colorful canvases often depict peasant life in Mexico, which he transformed into magical scenes. Corporate agriculture is turning family and peasant farmers from stewards of the land into servants, or eradicating their livelihoods completely. Show More Sentences Flying columns harried rebel territory throughout late November, and on 5 December the remnants of the peasant army were surrounded at Hasselt. He uses them to telling effect in the account of a peasant woman living alone, who gives the hungry boy shelter. The exception is the tendency of some immigrant women, particularly those from peasant stock, who wear traditional dress. He, who became John XXIII, was from earthy peasant stock, constantly cracking jokes at his own expense. By 1844 the Bethany settlers, almost all of them of peasant stock, had nearly five hundred acres under cultivation, most of them with wheat. He proudly admits he is from hard-working peasant stock and sees me as lazy, vain and probably as a ponce. He was from Ukrainian peasant stock, and at 14 he went to work in the Ukrainian coal mines. Like the Pieds Noirs, they were a settler community, much of it of peasant stock, which had done well. They are orderly, diligent and respectable within their own conventions, as in his two pictures of peasant weddings. In terms of social origins, most came from a peasant background, reflecting their rural births. It is the distinctive items in his diet that communicate not just the man's low social stature but also his specifically rural, peasant origins. The limitations of peasant agriculture reflected the intense concern with growing cereals. In fact, the Cossack regards the Russian peasant as a foreign, outlandish, despicable creature. The two peasant girls whom the hero simultaneously seduces here become hotel chambermaids. On embarking for the court, Joan traded her red gown of peasant homespun for elite male garb. The women wear conservative peasant dress consisting of baggy pantaloons and head scarves. If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop. The scenes are bucolic pastorals of peasant and aristocratic life during the period. It was also true that the country was still poor and that the life of a peasant was hard. They set out the next day and at evening approached a small hut from which a poor peasant emerged. Show More Sentences Noble, bourgeois, and peasant alike associated status with exemption from public demands. A Slovenian peasant removes corn from the dried cobs while his wife holds his new hat. The Jamaican peasant not only produced food for the local market but also produced other minor crops for export. They pointed to the peasant commune as the cell of the new communist society. Nearly every peasant household in the area engaged in cocoon production for the urban-based silk filatures. The guard hesitated, eying her suspiciously, taking in her filthiness and the peasant clothes she was wearing. In Guatemala, by nightfall on April 17th indigenous peasant organizations had occupied 14 fincas covering over 5,076 hectares. A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government. Housewives dressed in their most elaborate peasant costumes carry the Easter foods to church for consecration by the parish priest. This peasant girl is not the one working on a tobacco or coffee plantation. The poor peasant relates his appearance before a consistory court on charges of immorality. By the age of 16, this son of peasant farmers was in charge of a country under attack from Communist invaders. A local peasant farmer is threshing corn nearby and, hearing the commotion, comes to the rescue, using his flail as a weapon. However, the seeds of this change were sown much earlier, in the transition from peasant polyculture to specialized small farming. The gap separating wealthy peasant farmers from cottiers and day labourers widened imperceptibly. Soviet-style posters of happy storm troopers and peasant girls fondling potent sheaves fade and curl in the hot wind. Increased peasant purchasing power would then fuel the growth of industry as it responded to increased demand. Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. The story tells of peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and the disastrous consequences of that love. This Dutch peasant girl longed to compete in a skating race, but her family could barely afford food and she only had wooden skates. Show More Sentences One of these nobles chooses to drift from the others to get to know this vibrant peasant girl. Any peasant might teach our economist that this fact arises from the greater productiveness of the land watered by the Rhine and the Meuse. There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output. The latter, in its legal and typical form, was a few stalls in a nearby town where peasant women purveyed food to urban-dwellers. He had a coarse laugh, and joked grossly with the peasant women, young or old, who came to the window. Although she is presented in peasant dress, there is no feeling of hardship or discontentedness. Don Quijote informs them that she is still a virgin, but has been transformed into a common peasant by enchanters. She disguised herself as a peasant boy and romped in the marketplace, darting between the steam drums and the soup kettles. Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes. Most of the dockworkers laughed at the tall, gaunt looking peasant who was dirty and reeked of farm animals. Certainly, peasant farmers can grow food crops for export, but global food prices are too low for them to make a living. He developed a heavy, austere Expressionist style, which he displayed in peasant scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, and interiors. The expropriation of the 200,000 families of the landed nobility in favor of the 25,000,000 peasant homesteads is an accomplished fact. These structural changes were aggravated by the expulsion of large peasant masses, which increased poverty and unemployment in big cities. Traditional peasant attire for men consisted of pajama-like trousers and tunic of unbleached cotton, a serape, sandals, and wide sombrero. The peasant finds new industrial products in the market in quantity, promoted by advertising and by the possibility of installment buying. Chinese peasant communities followed a cyclical movement between normative closure and openness as a function of the dynastic cycle. Rushing thither, we behold the fair-headed peasant seated on the prostrate form of the young fellow from Penza. In the first, a young peasant woman desperately fights to protect an abandoned baby boy she's taken under her wing. Her musicality shines forth in her lyricism and she made an enchanting peasant Giselle and an ethereal but warm-blooded spirit. Show More Sentences The meter, complexity of rhythms created by dotted rhythms, triplets and irregular accents manifest the spirit of Korean peasant dance and music. No peasant wattle and daub homes exist anymore as they were so crudely made. People hurried back and forth, wrapped in cloaks or swirling capes behind them, in peasant wear or merchant finery. By a gurgling well stood a handsome peasant woman with red arms, pouring water into the milk that she was going to carry to the city. A high-caste, well-born, English-educated lawyer had voluntarily chosen to give up power and position and live the life of an Indian peasant. He considered peasants a reactionary force and peasant societies a drag on historical progress. I changed into a pair of black bell-bottoms and a white keyhole peasant shirt that had lace on the cuffs. She was wearing a long peasant skirt dyed in shades of blue and a blouse in airy white with a keyhole neck. There has been an enormous rise in workers' strikes, peasant rebellions and urban riots. He was one of the first historians to analyse the activities of peasant women as a separate category. There has been a rising wave of both working-class and peasant struggles in many countries. Nikola instructs the peasant to buy two candles, one costing a rouble and the other only a copeck. Cheka and Red Army units sent to suppress the peasant rebels were sometimes worsted, sometimes victorious. I wore a dark, denim wrap skirt with a cute, peasant top and of course a white jacket to keep me warm. He laid the peasant girl gently in the grass beside him and looked down at her dark eyes brimming with tears. The French worried about the Americanization of their culture and the disappearance of peasant society. He said financial institutions were now reluctant to assist peasant farmers because of the bad record of debt repayments. I layered my hair, I wore clogs, I floated around in gauzy peasant shirts and played my folk guitar. The peasant movement, like the workers' movement, revived in the wake of the victory of the revolutionary armies. A peasant leader, Titu Mir led a revolt against the British in Bengal in 1830-31, and was killed in the course of it. Show More Sentences During this time he led an uprising and mass peasant revolt against the ruling Poles. There's no garden feature quite so appealing and attractive to an idle peasant as a seat under a tree. In 1905 itself it was not so much the urban disorders as the peasant risings which most alarmed the government. The women's choice of German can be seen as a linguistic expression of their rejection of peasant life. Thus he established the peasant proprietorship, and won approbation and support of the overwhelming majority of the population. There are peasant boys that would give their right arm to be a prince for a day! The Chinese had brought new tactics to the battlefield for directing mass peasant armies armed with crossbows. The current popularity of the peasant arts of wood carving and rosemaling also grew out of the bygdelag tradition. An egalitarian peasant, exhilarated and probably drunk, grabs the hand of a girl from the visiting gentry, to drag her into the round dance. They were instead the baggy costume of a peasant, loose trousers and a short cropped shirt. Local priests were drawn largely from the peasant communities they served and were probably afforded only rudimentary education. Buffy marched into the kitchen with Tara, who looked like a breath of spring in her peasant top, long skirt and shy smile. A low-born peasant maid cures the king of France, who promises her choice of husband but the man she chooses rejects her. A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life. The Hungarian composer carried out extensive research on the folk melodies and developed a classification system for Hungarian peasant songs. It was not, as Abler suggests, Hungarian peasant dress that provided the model for the hussar, but that of Magyar noblemen. Separate fields show electric trains rumbling over rails, waved on by awed peasant girls. Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims. The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of makeshifts. The aquiline visage of our figure is not that of an old man, while the richness of his dress seems to indicate that, if he is a peasant or servant, he is no ordinary one. Show More Sentences The peasant leader's words raised the temperature of the debate. The new international division of labor has been at the root of such diverse changes in regional economics as the sunbelt boom in the United States and the transformation of peasant economies. I almost passed over her, cloaked in an old brown robe and deep in conversation with a toothless old peasant woman selling various herbs and balms. I named the barony estate that bordered the peasant villages. Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy. The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes. Lord Exbury's foppish elder son, his self-absorbed daughter, a local toad-eater, and a peasant couple are examples of the breadth of the play's dramatis personae. Stuck in the jungle, our hero befriends a peasant named Pacha and together they attempt to return to the palace in order to restore his human form. His template for government was the peasant fantasy he dreamed up during his years of service on a Soviet pig farm. A woman in a peasant blouse dances by herself in among the children. It was no longer the cotton skirt and peasant blouse she had been wearing. In Canada, seigneuries were divided into long-lot farms larger than peasant holdings in France, much of them, in the first generations, uncleared forest. He observes, rightly, that the Calabrian peasant who has toiled for long hours in the field does not want to come home to a grilled sardine and an undressed green salad. It is entirely possible that he began life tied to the land, since at least one letter in the Paston collection accuses him of being a peasant bondsman. She's generally fairly unhip, and looked uber-trendy in an of-the-moment peasant ensemble that both our ancestors would not have paid two roubels for in the Old Country. Classic Hungarian gastronomy is nothing less than French bonne bouches reaching Hungary via Austria and mixing with ancient Hungarian peasant dishes. The legendary peasant woman kept a pot-au-feu or bouillon pot on her hearth and, myth has it, threw into it whatever she had around to stew for the day's meal. The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes. Hundreds of urban youth left home and their studies to be part of the peasant revolution for the seizure of political power known popularly as the Naxalite movement. Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning. Show More Sentences He actively discouraged independent strikes and peasant uprisings. A trickle of visitors soon turned to a flood and the Silesian peasant was, by the beginning of the 1840s, personally ministering to hundreds of valetudinarians a year. Esslingen was a former free city and its community contained not only the actual city but 13 villages with small peasant landowners, most of them vintagers. Romanian traditional, or peasant costumes, are made from handwoven linen. Scottish Roots usually has about 20 clients at any given time waiting in a queue to discover whether they come from peasant stock or the landed gentry. This amalgam of cookery, theatre and mugging arose from a simple discovery by some unusually stupid Swiss peasant who left a large cheese on a hot hearthstone. We moved around by night and, by day, hid and catnapped in thickets outside villages where the leader of our band rendezvoused with peasant collaborators. Even the West Saxon ceorl appears as the head of a free peasant household, owing military service, capable of owning slaves, and with significant legal status. They have always played an important role in agriculture, both in subsistence production and in the production of cash crops on small peasant farms. It turns to the countryside, narrating a poignant family conflict centered on Mohammad's widowed father, Hashem, a peasant farmer and charcoal burner. Whether writing about Gothic churches or peasant shrines, Chateaubriand managed to convey a sense of awe and respect which he placed at the centre of religious experience. Back down toward the river, in contrast to the splendor of much of the Castle complex, Golden Lane is formed by numerous brightly painted shoe-box sized peasant houses. Once upon a time the peasant had been incorporated into the community as a full member, with all the far-flung consequences we considered earlier. Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor. He also admitted that it would probably take two or three decades for the peasant to be convinced that cooperative agriculture would be more efficient. Boxers tell the tale of Little Bao, a peasant boy who learns kung fu and joins the boxer rebellion. Born a peasant, she bucked the system, donned armor to save her country, and paid for those choices with her life. The empire was characterized by a differentiated economy based on food-gathering tribes, pastoralists, various kinds of peasant cultivators, and traders. He believed that the worn-out academicism of the day could be revitalized by direct contact with peasant life and with the genuine folk art of the people. One of his darkly coloured earlier works, it features a peasant family's mealtime, dimly lit by a tallow lamp, with a huge plate of steaming spuds as the centrepiece. Show More Sentences Between 1949 and 1955, there were worker protests in all the territories of East Africa with general strikes, peasant uprisings, and other forms of protest. Through persistence and ingenuity Wille is able to free himself from his captivity and then finds shelter with Anni, a young, sturdy and independent Lapp peasant. The peasant I had seen on my way to Evora that morning, trudging a field behind a hand-plough drawn by a pair of bullocks, might have been his father. It has an improvisatory feel rarely found in western, sit-up-straight restaurants, a scattily panicked vitality as bracing as its rough peasant dishes. Years ago, after a stand-up row with a queue-jumping Bulgarian peasant in a post office in Bulgaria, I realised that queues are not important in many other countries. Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired. Picture yourself as a peasant in your wood and daub hut, while the storms of the Northern Hemisphere winter rage outside and the snow lies deep upon the ground. She was flattered and courted, till the simple, but keen-witted and ambitious peasant girl had her head turned by the brilliancy of this new world. A return to small scale peasant agriculture and animal husbandry could even make the enforcing of proper hygiene and disease control more difficult. In the distance are several low wooden peasant houses, or izbas, and a dark strip of forest indicative of the vast coniferous taiga covering much of Russia. Most are peaceful, but some Salafis have turned radical and take up arms, just as there were violent Lutheran peasant rebellions in early modern Europe. Thus there were peasant uprisings throughout the Lombard plains over the summer of 1796, some of them resulting in massacres of isolated French units. Sara claimed heritage to some Asian culture, Chinese maybe, and was slim, small and all grace when she moved in her baby-blue peasant shirt and floor-length soft denim skirt. As with many planned Utopias, those who dreamed of it elaborated their fancies down to minute details like the architecture of peasant farmhouses. Yet, however timeless many peasant traditions, sayings and beliefs may seem, ethnographic evidence cannot transport us to the world of three centuries ago. Unionist or Scottish Nationalist, male chauvinist or women's libber, socialist or social-climber, democrat or monarchist, peasant or snob. This assumption has later been proven wrong, and studies of peasant plague mortality from manor rolls have returned much higher rates. In the 1650s and 1660s, the number of peasant escapes increased dramatically. The poor peasant was forced to unthatch his house to obtain food for his horse. Low waist jeans work well for you as long you team them up with casual tanks, feminine peasant blousons or bubble tops. Show More Sentences Joan of Arc came from an obscure village and rose to prominence when she was a teenager, and she did so as an uneducated peasant. The Chinese People's Liberation Army began as a peasant guerilla force which in time transformed itself into a large regular force. As Muscovy regained stability, discontent steadily grew within the serf and peasant populations. When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. It included terrorism, worker strikes, peasant unrests, and military mutinies. They were not adopted as a staple of the peasant population because they were not as filling as other fruits already available. The manors were large holdings with the work done by feudal peasant farmers. Out went the slave, and in came the unfree peasant instead, with no more freedom of movement than his predecessor. The revolutionaries assumed that reactionary and monarchist forces preferred regional languages to try to keep the peasant masses underinformed. Townswomen, like peasant women, were responsible for the household, and could also engage in trade. The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk. Asturian laws promoted this system, for instance granting a peasant all the land he was able to work and defend as his own property. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. It also includes Pribaoutki, Berceuses du chat, Four Russian songs, Four Russian peasant songs. He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes. Years later, he approaches Arthur disguised as a peasant wearing leather boots, a wool coat, a hood, and a belt of knotted sheepskin. The change in political structure led to the inevitable development of the peasant class or smerdy. The peasant Irish population was intended to be relocated to live near garrisons and Protestant churches. The Stolypin agrarian reform led to a massive peasant migration and settlement into Siberia. Instead of applying fertiliser, peasant farmers rely on the natural fertility of Tambov chernozems. Show More Sentences The expansion of tillage led to an inevitable expansion of the potato acreage and an expansion of peasant farmers. Consequently, after the death of the Yongle Emperor, independent peasant landholders predominated in Chinese agriculture. This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands. Florentine food grows out of a tradition of peasant eating rather than rarefied high cooking. The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany. The period of peace lasted until 1729, when the refusal to pay taxes by a peasant sparked the general insurrection of the island against Genoa. Strong peasant links with the land through private ownership were broken and many young people left for careers in industry. After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh. A serious drought in 1785 and 1786 caused a die-off of cattle, which ruined many peasant families, especially in the south. In his paintings, he used religious themes, but combined them with grotesque fantasies, colourful imagery, and peasant folk legends. This monumental law, signifying the beginning of the end for the samurai class, initially met resistance from both the peasant and warrior alike. Their kingdom was weak, hopelessly divided, and ruled by a king who was barely distinguishable from a peasant. Many of the educated elite saw this as a peasant dialect and were determined to restore the glories of Ancient Greek. The Maratha group of castes is a largely rural class of peasant cultivators, landowners, and soldiers. This program proliferated the formation of peasant associations, large villages based on agriculture. The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest. There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value. A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole. In peasant associations daily life is a struggle to survive. In 1770 and 1771 Great Famine killed about one tenth of the Czech population, or 250,000 inhabitants, and radicalised the countryside leading to peasant uprisings. Show More Sentences A child of a peasant, dressed in tatters, said to her mother 'All that matters, Is that We are all Sneetches, Sneetches in distress, We are nothing more We are nothing less. He was the first novelist to portray peasant characters sympathetically and realistically, and was equally just to merchants, soldiers, and even kings. A peasant rebellion led by the Tonghak religious movement led to a request by the Korean government for the Qing dynasty to send in troops to stabilize the country. Even after improved smelting technology made mined ores viable during the Middle Ages, bog ore remained important, particularly to peasant iron production, into modern times. The Praetorian Guard acclaimed him emperor, and their choice was grudgingly confirmed by the Senate, who were displeased to have a peasant as emperor. The educated classes had always feared that a peasant volia would soon degenerate into anarchic licence and violent revenge against figures of authority. The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens. We can see such ideas as having root in eighteenth-century notions of the noble, self-sufficient peasant, in Romanticism, and in English radical agrarianism. The Chinese military, caught between fruitless efforts to defeat the Manchu raiders from the north and huge peasant revolts in the provinces, essentially fell apart. A peasant with a great deal of experience and intelligence would then be wiser than an official who had memorized the Classics but not experienced the real world. In January of 1932, the peasant insurrection of La Matanza began with the occupation of a military garrison, government buildings, and private homes in western El Salvador. During her own trials as a young woman, when she was forced to work as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker and an electrician she says she still yearned to write. The landholding aristocracy suffered under the inflation, since they depended on paying small, fixed wages to peasant tenants that were becoming able to demand higher wages. Title to land resided with the headman, who held it in the name of the community, although peasant proprietors enjoyed the use of land as long as they cultivated it. When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly. The English replaced the lentils with cooked or smoked fish, added herbs and cream sauce, and turned peasant fare into an elegant brunchtime delicacy. In many cases, latifundia estates expanded production impressively, while millions of small peasant farms remained mired in poverty and were often dispossessed of their land. Hundreds of peasant families from the community of Nueva Esperanza were removed from the park in summer 2011 on the pretext that they were involved with narcotrafficking. The young pianist was Polish-born Edyta Lajdorf who displayed a real feel for the rhythmic drive of the piece which concludes with a Stravinskian evocation of peasant dancing. Agricultural productivity remained low despite efforts to introduce new techniques to what was for the most part an uninterested, exploited peasant and labouring groups. Show More Sentences Reform was gradual and the regime itself carried out agrarian reforms that had the effect of weakening absolutism by creating a class of independent peasant freeholders. The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance. By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. These sieges often took place in the runaway peasant Cossacks' old towns, leading them to wreak havoc on their old masters and get the revenge for which they were hoping. These differences allowed for a wide variety of peasant societies, some dominated by aristocratic landholders and others having a great deal of autonomy. The local parish priests were often drawn from the peasant class. A lawyer, craftsman and peasant were all considered to be part of the same social unit, a third estate of people who were neither aristocrats nor church officials. Holt that the Robin Hood legend was cultivated in the households of the gentry, and that it would be mistaken to see in him a figure of peasant revolt. He was connected by marriage with the late dynasty and, according to the legend, had been saved from the enemies by a heroic peasant, Ivan Susanin. Hongwu Emperor, being the only founder of Chinese dynasties from the peasant origin, had laid the foundation of a state that relied fundamentally in agriculture. The country erupted in violent demonstrations led by students and later by peasant political groups, especially in Eastern United Provinces, Bihar, and western Bengal. The sturdy peasant woman who worked the land and bore strong children was considered ideal, and athletic women were praised for being tanned from working outdoors. In general, they are propagating the image of Ukrainians as the European descendants of good peasant stock, of multiethnic pioneers, and of an ancient multiethnic state. The second group, the taluqdars, had lost half their landed estates to peasant farmers as a result of the land reforms that came in the wake of annexation of Oudh. Pieter Bruegel the Elder pioneered large panoramic scenes of peasant life. He also wrote books about Irish archaeology and peasant folklore. The most famous of such examples in Canada is the altar area of the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec, which was carved by peasant habitant labourers. Peer and peasant alike, all we got out of three weeks of increasingly desperate calls to British Telecom and to our internet service providers was the bum's rush. Examples from Classical Literature His face had nothing of the wallachian peasant in its features or expression. At Perugia I had filled a pocket-book with notes on the peasant girl's trances. This was a pleasanter fate than that of the Tirolese peasant who followed his herd under a stone, where they had all disappeared. This verandah in the peasant home in Upper Austria is a most important part of the house. One of our drivers was a Russian peasant from Yaroslavl, the other, an Ossete. In 1830 he was a young peasant who saw the possibilities of the passion play. I was too desirous to converse with a genuine Tirolean peasant to refuse his invitation to sit down by his side. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. She was evidently a Scotch peasant girl, as indicated by the clothes she wore and by her hard, toilworn hands. He handed the young peasant who was holding his horse half a krone, and then walked briskly into the castle. Most members come from peasant or worker families and are veterans of the communist movement of the interwar period. A peasant came up to a certain intelligent man in osa and brought along with him a girl about sixteen years old. But now, sir, the clouted shoe of the peasant galls the kibe of the courtier. The monarch pointed to a tabouret, but the peasant did not heed the invitation. The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. There was an extensive peasant revolt in Germany which interwove with the general political and religious disturbance. A stalwart Lettish peasant boy answers demurely, Because I havent money enough. If the peasant was poor, there was no limit to his liberality in the little he had. Once in Liguria we had a boat of our own and paddled with the peasant paddlers. After the Hussite Wars these peasant insurrections increased in gravity in Germany and took on a religious character. Show More Sentences Lack of resources caused the loss of the land, and the peasant proprietor found himself a tenant farmer. The conservative peasant who does not like changing his agricultural habits has been forced to the use of the petrol engine. Find more words! 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