All 10 Uses of
peasant
in
A Farewell to Arms
- He doesn't want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.
Book 1 *peasants = uneducated farmers
- I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and haretracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting.†
Book 1
- We are not peasants.†
Book 1
- But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war.†
Book 1
- The peasants all called you "Don" and when you met them they took off their hats.†
Book 1
- His father hunted every day and stopped to eat at the houses of peasants.†
Book 1
- The birds were all good because they fed on grapes and you never took a lunch because the peasants were always honored if you would eat with them at their houses.†
Book 1
- That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start.†
Book 3
- The peasants' carts did not help much either.†
Book 3
- In the night many peasants had joined the column from the roads of the country and in the column there were carts loaded with household goods; there were mirrors projecting up between mattresses, and chickens and ducks tied to carts.†
Book 3
Definition:
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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