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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
- It is a sordid life, you say, this of the Tullivers and Dodsons, irradiated by no sublime principles, no romantic visions, no active, self-renouncing faith; moved by none of those wild, uncontrollable passions which create the dark shadows of misery and crime; without that primitive, rough simplicity of wants, that hard, submissive, ill-paid toil, that childlike spelling-out of what nature has written, which gives its poetry to peasant life.4.1 -- Book 4 Chapter 1 -- A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet (28% in)
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