All 17 Uses of
serf
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- His wife, Marfa Ignatyevna, had obeyed her husband's will implicitly all her life, yet she had pestered him terribly after the emancipation of the serfs.†
Chpt 3
- Once during the year after Fyodor Pavlovitch's marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, the village girls and women—at that time serfs—were called together before the house to sing and dance.†
Chpt 3
- It was in the darkest days of serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of the People!†
Chpt 5 *
- One day a serf-boy, a little child of eight, threw a stone in play and hurt the paw of the general's favorite hound.†
Chpt 5
- It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination—something like a universal serfdom with them as masters—that's all they stand for.†
Chpt 5
- We had four servants, all serfs.†
Chpt 6
- A serf of hers called Pyotr was at once suspected, and every circumstance confirmed the suspicion.†
Chpt 6
- The man knew—indeed his mistress did not conceal the fact—that having to send one of her serfs as a recruit she had decided to send him, as he had no relations and his conduct was unsatisfactory.†
Chpt 6
- They are not servile, and even after two centuries of serfdom they are free in manner and bearing, yet without insolence, and not revengeful and not envious.†
Chpt 6
- He had not even formed a definite idea of the fundamental principles of the reforms connected with the emancipation of the serfs, and only picked it up, so to speak, from year to year, involuntarily increasing his knowledge by practice.†
Chpt 9
- This playful paragraph finished, of course, with an outburst of generous indignation at the wickedness of parricide and at the lately abolished institution of serfdom.†
Chpt 11
- They want to put a monument to your Pushkin for writing about women's feet, while I wrote with a moral purpose, and you,' said he, 'are an advocate of serfdom.†
Chpt 11
- It looked as though the gentleman belonged to that class of idle landowners who used to flourish in the times of serfdom.†
Chpt 11
- He had unmistakably been, at some time, in good and fashionable society, had once had good connections, had possibly preserved them indeed, but, after a gay youth, becoming gradually impoverished on the abolition of serfdom, he had sunk into the position of a poor relation of the best class, wandering from one good old friend to another and received by them for his companionable and accommodating disposition and as being, after all, a gentleman who could be asked to sit down with any…†
Chpt 11
- He attributed the tragic crime to the habits that had become ingrained by ages of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia, due to the lack of appropriate institutions.†
Chpt 12
- There were even two or three outbreaks of applause when he spoke of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia.†
Chpt 12
- The whole effect on the public, of Rakitin's speech, of his noble sentiments, of his attacks upon serfdom and the political disorder of Russia, was this time finally ruined.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(serf) Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord