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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

Most people in the Middle Ages were peasants.

peasants = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing

In 1932 a peasant revolt in Su County China stopped collection of the poppy tax.

peasant = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing

Serfs were the lowest class of peasants.

peasants = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing

...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).
John Gardner -- Grendel

peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing

and watched the motorbuses come in and unload peasants from the country coming in to the market,
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

peasants = 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

He'd leave peasant huts full of malnourished babies and, arriving in Miami Airport, overhear well-dressed people talk about their efforts to lose weight.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

peasant = used historically and sometimes in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock

they treat the peasants like animals
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing

Is the land there owned by the peasants?
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

peasants = poor farmers

Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants and then go home and write a "little book" called War and Peace.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

peasants = 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

Several other travellers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

peasants = persons of low income, education, and social standing (used historically to primarily describe those who raised crops or livestock)

He doesn't want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

peasants = uneducated farmers

"I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer."
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha

peasant = a person of low income, education, and social standing

Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

peasants = uneducated farmers

She whispered back, "It is all right, Esperanza, because now we are peasants, too."
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

peasants = people of low income and low social standing

He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing

Parish clerks, teachers, and one in a thousand of the peasants, maybe, know what it's all about.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

peasants = 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

peasants greeted them along the roads in the country;
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

peasants = people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock

It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing

Oh, you know the stories that the peasants tell about a phantom hound, and so on.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

peasants = a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock

But you know, peasants live there, real rude Russian peasants.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

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

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