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Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf.
Neither a serf nor a villein rightfully owned the land upon which he worked.
I wipe the pieces with a slightly moist, very serf sponge and then begin to apply my three coats of Velvet base color.
The most common is to label everyone who is not obviously a slave or a free man a serf.
As a result, the personal freedom of the serf was restricted in a number of ways.
Elsewhere, many landowners funded their own troupes of serf dancers, performing folk and ballet.
Possibly the son of a Hampshire serf, he entered royal service and superintended the rebuilding of Windsor castle.
At count P. M. Skavronskogo serf actors should sing not only on a scene, but also in a daily life.
When the serf no longer responded to whipping because you were just hitting old insensate scar tissue, that would be the equivalent of low batteries.
A serf could become a freedman only through manumission, enfranchisement, or escape.
The higher nobles pledged their fealty to the top ruler, the lower nobles to their overlords, and so on down to level of the serf.
The tribal chiefs refused to let their sons go to school, sending children taken from serf families instead.
Suvorov together with chorus from serf singers herself took part in church church chanting.
Just as it took place in Moscow, some Petersburg serf theatres were low-power and hardly deserved the theatre name.
At their worst, these would have put the life of a poor labourer and his family on a par with or perhaps below that of an American slave or a Russian serf.
If the courts decided that a slave was merely a modern-day villein, or serf, then his master might be legally entitled to transport him to Jamaica.
In patterns of landholding, serf ownership, and use of property, Marrese also finds more similarities than differences between noblewomen and men.
After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem.
Slave, servant, indentured servant, serf, it all meant the same to me.
Anyone who works at a law firm will certainly agree that it's a very feudalistic place, and they let you know right away that you are a serf and there is no hiding it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No runagate serf in medival Europe was more severely dealt with than the Congo native who dared to range afield.
The serf persecutes the Jew because he is himself persecuted by the nobility.
Similarly, he could tell his slave to run, but he could only tell his serf to stay.
As to the serf, he did not consider that a boon had been bestowed upon him.
You saw the reaction of the Duke when he realized that Flor was actually a serf?
She makes him a serf, and condemns him to be a gold-digger for life in the mines.
Would he feel that he was treated like an underling, like a menial, like a serf?
He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
The main division, the widest gulf, divided the feudal lord and the serf.
An apprentice, a miner, hired laborer, serf or a villein is not a slave.
Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society.
The labourer at the end of the Dark Ages was no longer a slave but a serf.
Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat.
A mad desire gripped her to assert herself, to make plain her resentment at this revolt of the serf.
In Calydon, young and old, noble and serf, were all lamenting.
The Templar, a serf in all but the name, can possess neither lands nor goods, and lives, moves, and breathes, but at the will and pleasure of another.
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