| A man who obviously could not afford water to bath in was a true peasant indeed. |
| Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows. |
| He uses them to telling effect in the account of a peasant woman living alone, who gives the hungry boy shelter. |
| 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. |
| He was the independent master of a peasant household, whose position was protected by the king's law. |
| The peasant in charge of laundry duty, a thickset, intimidating woman of considerable age, looked Kelly up and down with a beady, critical eye. |
