All 50 Uses of

peasant

in

The Brothers Karamazov

In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror from her childhood, fell into that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be "possessed by devils."†
Chpt 1

Oh! he understood that for the humble soul of the Russian peasant, worn out by grief and toil, and still more by the everlasting injustice and everlasting sin, his own and the world's, it was the greatest need and comfort to find some one or something holy to fall down before and worship.†
Chpt 1

He understood it, but that the elder Zossima was this saint and custodian of God's truth—of that he had no more doubt than the weeping peasants and the sick women who held out their children to the elder.†
Chpt 1

Peasant Women Who Have Faith Near the wooden portico below, built on to the outer wall of the precinct, there was a crowd of about twenty peasant women.†
Chpt 2

Near the wooden portico below, built on to the outer wall of the precinct, there was a crowd of about twenty peasant women.†
Chpt 2

But Father Zossima, on entering the portico, went first straight to the peasants who were crowded at the foot of the three steps that led up into the portico.†
Chpt 2

But later on I learnt with astonishment from medical specialists that there is no pretense about it, that it is a terrible illness to which women are subject, specially prevalent among us in Russia, and that it is due to the hard lot of the peasant women.†
Chpt 2

Yet we are peasants though we live in the town.†
Chpt 2

An exhausted, consumptive-looking, though young peasant woman was gazing at him in silence.†
Chpt 2

He got up and looked cheerfully at a healthy peasant woman with a tiny baby in her arms.†
Chpt 2

A Lady Of Little Faith A visitor looking on the scene of his conversation with the peasants and his blessing them shed silent tears and wiped them away with her handkerchief.†
Chpt 2

He was evidently a monk of the humblest, that is of the peasant, class, of a narrow outlook, but a true believer, and, in his own way, a stubborn one.†
Chpt 2

But Ivan and Kalganov went through the ceremony in the most simple-hearted and complete manner, kissing his hand as peasants do.†
Chpt 2

The Russian peasant, the laborer, brings here the farthing earned by his horny hand, wringing it from his family and the tax-gatherer!†
Chpt 2

Am I to become a peasant or a shepherd?†
Chpt 3

I got gypsies there and champagne and made all the peasants there drunk on it, and all the women and girls.†
Chpt 3

There is a forest in winter, and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute solitude, stands a peasant in a torn kaftan and bark shoes.†
Chpt 3

Again, taking into consideration that no one in our day, not only you, but actually no one, from the highest person to the lowest peasant, can shove mountains into the sea—except perhaps some one man in the world, or, at most, two, and they most likely are saving their souls in secret somewhere in the Egyptian desert, so you wouldn't find them—if so it be, if all the rest have no faith, will God curse all the rest? that is, the population of the whole earth, except about two hermits in…†
Chpt 3

The peasants are not very fond of listening to these soup-makers, so far.†
Chpt 3

And as for the ideas he may be hatching, the Russian peasant, generally speaking, needs thrashing.†
Chpt 3

Our peasants are swindlers, and don't deserve to be pitied, and it's a good thing they're still flogged sometimes.†
Chpt 3

We've left off thrashing the peasants, we've grown so clever, but they go on thrashing themselves.†
Chpt 3

It was simply a peasant's hut, though it looked like a chapel, for it contained an extraordinary number of ikons with lamps perpetually burning before them—which men brought to the monastery as offerings to God.†
Chpt 4

He was dressed in a peasant's long reddish coat of coarse convict cloth (as it used to be called) and had a stout rope round his waist.†
Chpt 4

He found himself in a regular peasant's room.†
Chpt 4

She wanted to make it touching, a regular peasant's feeling.†
Chpt 5

Can a Russian peasant be said to feel, in comparison with an educated man?
Chpt 5 *

peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock

There are lines in Nekrassov describing how a peasant lashes a horse on the eyes, 'on its meek eyes,' every one must have seen it.†
Chpt 5

The peasant beats it, beats it savagely, beats it at last not knowing what he is doing in the intoxication of cruelty, thrashes it mercilessly over and over again.†
Chpt 5

This Gorstkin looks like a peasant, he wears a blue kaftan, but he is a regular rogue.†
Chpt 5

He tried to talk to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an answer the peasant made him; but a minute later he realized that he was not catching anything, and that he had not really even taken in the peasant's answer.†
Chpt 5

He tried to talk to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an answer the peasant made him; but a minute later he realized that he was not catching anything, and that he had not really even taken in the peasant's answer.†
Chpt 5

The fourth, Father Anfim, was a very old and humble little monk of the poorest peasant class.†
Chpt 6

Let him open that book and begin reading it without grand words or superciliousness, without condescension to them, but gently and kindly, being glad that he is reading to them and that they are listening with attention, loving the words himself, only stopping from time to time to explain words that are not understood by the peasants.†
Chpt 6

Let him read them about Abraham and Sarah, about Isaac and Rebecca, of how Jacob went to Laban and wrestled with the Lord in his dream and said, "This place is holy"—and he will impress the devout mind of the peasant.†
Chpt 6

Only a little tiny seed is needed—drop it into the heart of the peasant and it won't die, it will live in his soul all his life, it will be hidden in the midst of his darkness and sin, like a bright spot, like a great reminder.†
Chpt 6

Do you suppose that the peasants don't understand?†
Chpt 6

A good-looking peasant lad, about eighteen, joined us; he had to hurry back next morning to pull a merchant's barge along the bank.†
Chpt 6

Take care of the peasant and guard his heart.†
Chpt 6

That's your duty as monks, for the peasant has God in his heart.†
Chpt 6

(f) Of Masters and Servants, and of whether it is possible for them to be Brothers in the Spirit Of course, I don't deny that there is sin in the peasants too.†
Chpt 6

He visits princes, though he is only a peasant corrupted.†
Chpt 6

The peasants are rotting in drunkenness and cannot shake off the habit.†
Chpt 6

But God will save Russia, for though the peasants are corrupted and cannot renounce their filthy sin, yet they know it is cursed by God and that they do wrong in sinning.†
Chpt 6

I have seen it myself, I have known it myself, and, would you believe it, the poorer our Russian peasant is, the more noticeable is that serene goodness, for the rich among them are for the most part corrupted already, and much of that is due to our carelessness and indifference.†
Chpt 6

Once upon a time there was a peasant woman and a very wicked woman she was.†
Chpt 7

He is a peasant, he does business in timber.†
Chpt 8

He inquired, however, with surprise, why he called the peasant-trader Gorstkin, Lyagavy, and obligingly explained to Mitya that, though the man's name really was Lyagavy, he was never called so, as he would be grievously offended at the name, and that he must be sure to call him Gorstkin, "or you'll do nothing with him; he won't even listen to you," said the priest in conclusion.†
Chpt 8

On hearing this fact, the priest dropped the subject, though he would have done well to put into words his doubt whether, if Samsonov had sent him to that peasant, calling him Lyagavy, there was not something wrong about it and he was turning him into ridicule.†
Chpt 8

He was a lean, middle-aged peasant, with a very long face, flaxen curls, and a long, thin, reddish beard, wearing a blue cotton shirt and a black waistcoat, from the pocket of which peeped the chain of a silver watch.†
Chpt 8

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(peasant)
used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock

peasant in The Brothers Karamazov

peasant

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The Brothers Karamazov