All 13 Uses of
peasant
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It was not like the smell of the old peasants who knelt at the back of the chapel at Sunday mass.†
Chpt 1
- But they were very holy peasants.†
Chpt 1
- It would be lovely to sleep for one night in that cottage before the fire of smoking turf, in the dark lit by the fire, in the warm dark, breathing the smell of the peasants, air and rain and turf and corduroy.†
Chpt 1
- The peasant women stood at the half-doors, the men stood here and there.†
Chpt 1
- A little troop of Neapolitan peasants were practising their steps at the end of the chapel, some circling their arms above their heads, some swaying their baskets of paper violets and curtsying.†
Chpt 2
- It was a Firbolg in the borrowed cloak of a Milesian; and he thought of his friend Davin, the peasant student.†
Chpt 5
- It was a jesting name between them, but the young peasant bore with it lightly: —Go on, Stevie, I have a hard head, you tell me.†
Chpt 5
- Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.†
Chpt 5
- One night the young peasant, his spirit stung by the violent or luxurious language in which Stephen escaped from the cold silence of intellectual revolt, had called up before Stephen's mind a strange vision.†
Chpt 5
- The last words of Davin's story sang in his memory and the figure of the woman in the story stood forth reflected in other figures of the peasant women whom he had seen standing in the doorways at Clane as the college cars drove by, as a type of her race and of his own, a bat-like soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness and, through the eyes and voice and gesture of a woman without guile, calling the stranger to her bed.†
Chpt 5
- The forms of the community emerged from the gust-blown vestments, the dean of studies, the portly florid bursar with his cap of grey hair, the president, the little priest with feathery hair who wrote devout verses, the squat peasant form of the professor of economics, the tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes, the grave troubled prefect of the…†
Chpt 5
- His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in Dublin and a brother a potboy in Moycullen.†
Chpt 5
- peasants greeted them along the roads in the country;
Chpt 5 *peasants = people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
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