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Most people in the Middle Ages were peasants.peasants = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing
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In 1932 a peasant revolt in Su County, China stopped collection of the poppy tax.
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Serfs were the lowest class of peasants.
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I got angry and told him he was still a peasant and then he left. (source)peasant = people of low income and low social standing
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It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair. (source)peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
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"I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer." (source)peasant = a person of low income, education, and social standing
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...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not). (source)peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
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Now I see peasants in the field. (source)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
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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. (source)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
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Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants and then go home and write a "little book" called War and Peace. (source)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
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...Detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farm-yard and his wife; (source)peasant = uneducated farmer
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Several other travellers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads. (source)peasants = persons of low income, education, and social standing (used historically to primarily describe those who raised crops or livestock)
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He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife. (source)peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
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Is the land there owned by the peasants? (source)peasants = poor farmers
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Can a Russian peasant be said to feel, in comparison with an educated man? (source)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
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Oh, you know the stories that the peasants tell about a phantom hound, and so on. (source)peasants = a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
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