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Sentences ending with peasant

His feet were well shod, his coat worn, and he had still the look that belongs to the well-to-do peasant. [11]
Well, in a spirit of mutiny--in which I am, in a sense, an expert-- I went in boots and otherwise "improperly dressed," for I wore my hair in a queue, like a peasant. [11]
It was simple: she was a peasant. [5]
Why talk rubbish, lout that you are--a real peasant! [2]
He was dressed like a fellah, with the long blue yelek, and a poor wool fez, and round the fez was a white cloth, as it were to protect his mouth from the night air, after the manner of the peasant. [11]
And you, a horrid peasant! [10]
This argued that he had not found the road, yet, but was marching to it with some peasant. [5]
If we are going to succeed in our emprise, we must not only look the peasant but act the peasant. [5]
Thou in the East and I here in the West, Under our newer skies purple and pleasant: Who shall decide which is better--attest, Saga or peasant? [11]
Thou in the East and I here in the West, Under our newer skies purple and pleasant: Who shall decide which is better, attest, Saga or peasant? [11]

Short sentences using peasant

The old peasant understood, however. [11]
The peasant is irrefutable. [2]
The peasant is a serf. [9]
Fellah----The Egyptian peasant. [11]

Sentences containing peasant two or more times

I even have wished that I, half peasant, had been--" "If only you had been all peasant, this war, this misery of mine, had never been," she interrupted. [11]
A little ahead of them walked a peasant guide, wet to the skin and wearing a gray peasant coat and a white knitted cap. [2]

More example sentences with the word peasant in them

No real good will be accomplished until noble, burgher and peasant cheerfully yield to him, and unite to battle under his leadership for the highest blessings of life. [10]
The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services. [2]
From the spot where the peasant was standing they could see the French. [2]
I don't know what I expected in Mrs. Scherer--from Maude's description a benevolent and somewhat stupid, blue-eyed German woman, of peasant extraction. [9]
With Barop's permission we had a banquet in the peasant tavern there, whose cost was defrayed by the kreutzers which had been paid as fines for offences against table rules. [10]
Our favourite spring was the Schaalbach at the foot of the Steiger,--[We pupils bought it of the peasant who owned it and gave it to Barop. [10]
This good woman was made happy all the day long by the applauses which she got out of herself for her magnanimous condescension to a tramp; and the King was just as self-complacent over his gracious humility toward a humble peasant woman. [5]
Melted rubies it was indeed, of the sort which had quickened the blood of many a royal gathering at Blois and Amboise and Chenonceaux,--the distilled peasant song of the Loire valley. [9]
A peasant, she told Epaphroditus, who was watching the meal, had given them to her because they were so remarkably fine. [10]
The peasant seemed to him not merely a tool, but also a judge of farming and an end in himself. [2]
My idea was to disguise myself as a freeman of peasant degree and wander through the country a week or two on foot. [5]
Two years before this time I saw him lift a load from the back of a peasant woman and carry it home for her, putting into her hand a gold piece on leaving. [11]
As proof of this the peasant had brought from Visloukhovo a hundred rubles in notes (he did not know that they were false) paid to him in advance for hay. [2]
Then they wished they had some more company--and Mr. Emerson pointed to me and says: "'Is yonder squalid peasant all That this proud nursery could breed? [5]
The habiliments of the west, the sack coats and sweaters, the slouch hats and caps, the so-called Derbies pulled down over dark brows and flashing eyes lent to these peasant types an incongruity that had the air of ferocity. [9]
The peasant has the same opinion of him that the physician, the trainer, and the money-lender had of the rhetorician. [4]
These latter compel the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his own cost. [5]
In that day the peasant of the high altitudes will have to carry a lantern when he goes visiting in the night to keep from stumbling over railroads that have been built since his last round. [5]
The interior of the peasant hut was filled with people who had sought shelter there, and the stifling atmosphere which the artist felt at the door induced him to remain outside. [10]
The peasant prefers the gentleman to the bourgeois as his companion. [11]
Everything is with the aristocrat; he has to kick the great chances from his path; but the peasant must go hunting them in peril. [11]
Ah, how did that ignorant village-born peasant woman know the human being so well? [5]
And also in that day, if there shall remain a high-altitude peasant whose potato-patch hasn't a railroad through it, it would make him as conspicuous as William Tell. [5]
In manner and speech though I was somewhat dull, my fellows thought, I was enough like a peasant soldier to deceive them, and my French was more fluent than their own. [11]
He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament. [11]
To refute him someone would have to prove to him that there is no devil, or another peasant would have to explain to him that it is not the devil but a German, who moves the locomotive. [2]
And I, like some poor peasant fated to reside Remote from friends, in a forest wide. [5]
The peasant drivers, shouting and lashing their horses, kept crossing from side to side. [2]
They knew--as why shouldn't they, when they saw a gentleman like you in peasant clothes?--that luck had been agin' us. [11]
Where had she seen this strange-looking English peasant, with the rolling walk of a sailor? [11]
The peasant, to save his fields from the stags and does which broke into them in herds at sunset, tried to keep them out by means of clappers and bad odours. [10]
He was too quick in repartee and drollery for a bourgeois, too "near to the bone" in point for an aristocrat, with his touch of the comedian and the peasant also. [11]
I was not proud of it; the peasant in me spoke against it sometimes. [11]
Having been taken prisoner and allowed his beard to grow, he seemed to have thrown off all that had been forced upon him--everything military and alien to himself--and had returned to his former peasant habits. [2]
He would leave prison a poor man, as a peasant in peasant's clothes. [11]
You are a peasant, you know. [5]
Many a compassionate peasant, many a miller's lad and Carter, had offered him a seat on the back of his nag or in his waggon but, without accepting their friendly offers, he had plodded on with his bare feet. [10]
Sandie, the plodding peasant, finds it a hard matter to forgive Jamie, who is taken from the plough next to his, and ends in Parliament. [9]
Some of the peasant young men went without coats, and with the shirt sleeves fluted; and others wore butternut-colored suits, the coats of which I can recommend to those who like the swallow-tailed variety. [4]
He was a peasant of a superior class, however. [11]
He was a peasant from Pokrovsk, near the river Gzhat. [2]
He kept the peasant families together in the largest groups possible, not allowing the family groups to divide into separate households. [2]
Two men in peasant coats ran away at the foot of the wall, toward the Znamenka. [2]
There is the peasant and there am I. Voila! [11]
It was an old-world figure this, with the face of a peasant troubadour and the carriage of an aboriginal-- or an aristocrat. [11]
He was an old peasant of the usual Irish type, coarsely but cleanly dressed. [11]
The peasant Bredernitz often took us to his crow-hut, which was a hole in the ground covered with boughs and pieces of turf, where the hunters lay concealed. [10]
His marvellous innocence of look and his peasant openness hid, I saw, great shrewdness and intelligence--an admirable man for Vaudreuil's purpose, as admirable for mine. [11]
I remember remarks of his in the market-place a year before, as he and I watched the peasant in his sabots and the good-wife in her homespun cloth. [11]
Pierre's attire by now consisted of a dirty torn shirt (the only remnant of his former clothing), a pair of soldier's trousers which by Karataev's advice he tied with string round the ankles for warmth, and a peasant coat and cap. [2]
There could be no doubt about the peasant extraction, but when she hobbled into our little parlour with the aid of a stout, gold-headed cane she dominated it. [9]
From Gien the news had spread to Orleans that the peasant Maid of Vaucouleurs was on her way, divinely commissioned to raise the siege. [5]
In fact, the most hopeful symptom in the condition of the English peasant is his discontent. [4]
Education of the modern sort unsettles the peasant, renders him unfit for labor, and gives us a half-educated idler in place of a conscientious workman. [4]
They were in marked contrast to the peasant folk with the high-peaked soft hat, knee-breeches, rough tail-coat, and stockings, some with rifles, some with pikes, some with powder-horns slung under their arms or in the small of the back. [11]
I saw so many of those peasant carts in your yard. [2]
What would a lord say--yes, or any other person of whatever condition --if he caught an upstart peasant with a dagger on his person? [5]
A few heavy little clouds were darkly relieved against the blue sky, and a peasant, driving two sucking pigs before him, called to another, who was carrying a goose under each arm, that the sun was drawing water, and thundershowers seldom came singly. [10]
So young a King and so ignorant a peasant were likely to make mistakes; and this is an instance in point. [5]
In Austria there is a peasant who drives a great trade in this sort of industry, and has both the high and the low for patients. [5]
In Austria there is a peasant who drives a great trade in this sort of industry and has both the high and the low for patients. [5]
He looked her in the face--he was so little like a peasant, so much more like a sailor here with his feet on the deck of a floating thing. [11]
The chief thing in his eyes was not the nitrogen in the soil, nor the oxygen in the air, nor manures, nor special plows, but that most important agent by which nitrogen, oxygen, manure, and plow were made effective--the peasant laborer. [2]
An aged peasant, in a sudden fit of weakness, had stumbled on the road, and, in falling, had struck his head on a stone and had lost consciousness. [11]
It seemed as if, all at once, the courtier, the flaneur, the man of breeding, had gone, and you had before you the peasant, in a moment's palsy from the intensity of his fury. [11]
He had no idea that Guida's descent from the noble de Mauprats of Chambery would weigh with the Duke, who would only see in her some apple-cheeked peasant stumbling over her court train. [11]
Now, with all his sleek handsomeness, he looked a cross between a splendid peasant and a chevalier of industry. [11]
The peasant toiled his difficult way up. [5]
He had invited her, at the outbreak of the peasant insurrection, to place herself under his protection. [10]
That very morning he had hurried down to a little cottage in the village and seen it lying asleep, well cared for by a peasant woman. [11]
Must it not grieve and wound him to remain in her memory a clumsy peasant shepherd? [10]
Out of the gates there came slowly, yet firmly, dressed in peasant clothes, the stalwart but faded figure of Dyck Calhoun. [11]
Hardly snatching sustenance from Fate, the peasant fights into greatness; the aristocrat may only win to it by rejecting Fate's luxuries. [11]
I can save France--ah, you may laugh, but I know what is in me, I know what is hid under this peasant cap. [5]
It was a fine time to study peasant costumes. [4]
Balaga was a fair-haired, short, and snub-nosed peasant of about twenty-seven; red-faced, with a particularly red thick neck, glittering little eyes, and a small beard. [2]
When had he ever turned aside himself--or ever had the chance to do it, if a peasant saw him or any other noble knight in time to judiciously save him the trouble? [5]
The peasant never escapes the austere teaching of hard experience, the aristocrat the languor of good fortune. [11]
Besides, it is easy for the peasant to give his neighbour the cloud which hangs over his field. [10]
They are all dwarfs and one peasant woman will toss three of them with a hayfork. [2]
A peasant was drawing water at the pump, and the handle made a noise; a priest chatted with three French ladies who had come over from a neighbouring seaside resort. [9]
His mother's family died with her; on his father's side, as the precentor had learned, he still had an uncle, his father's older brother, but his castle had been destroyed during the Peasant War. [10]
The smoke came curling up here and there through the sweet air of spring, a snowbird tripped along the white coverlet of the earth, and before a Calvary, I saw a peasant kneel and say an Ave as he went to market. [11]
The yard was crowded with peasant carts, some loaded high and already corded up, others still empty. [2]
When the time comes I shall want both town and peasant lads and will raise the cry a day or two beforehand, but they are not wanted yet so I hold my peace. [2]
I want peasant clothes and a pistol," said Pierre, unexpectedly blushing. [2]
Trains of peasant carts came to Moscow to carry off to the villages what had been abandoned in the ruined houses and the streets. [2]
He had a broad, peasant face, his mouth was awry, and his thick yellowish-red hair, which in many places looked washed out or faded, hung so low over his narrow forehead, that it wholly concealed it, and touched his bushy, snow-white brows. [10]
Even his peasant brain saw my difficulty, the danger to my honour--and hers. [11]
But boldness breeds boldness, and shortly I plunged into a Vineyard, in the full light of the moon, and captured a gallon of superb grapes, not even minding the presence of a peasant who rode by on a mule. [5]
Turn aside to avoid trampling peasant dirt under foot? [5]
The cruel doctrine at which all but case-hardened "professionals" shudder cones out, as she teaches and illustrates it, as unlike its original as the milk which a peasant mother gives her babe is unlike the coarse food which furnishes her nourishment. [6]
The associations are as opposite as the dining-room of the duchess and the cabin of the peasant. [4]
He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife. [5]
He understood farming, and, by purchasing more land and woodlands, transformed the peasant holding into a considerable estate. [10]
The peasant nodded and turned away. [11]
Denisov, the esaul, and Petya rode silently, following the peasant in the knitted cap who, stepping lightly with outturned toes and moving noiselessly in his bast shoes over the roots and wet leaves, silently led them to the edge of the forest. [2]
The pistol, dagger, and peasant coat were ready. [2]
This was done, and a few minutes later the peasant came out satisfied, and gratefully kissed the Arab's hand. [10]
He felt for an instant as his father, a chevalier of France, might have felt if a peasant had presumed to finger the orders upon his breast. [11]

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