All 45 Uses of
peasant
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.†
Chpt 1
- The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind— and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.†
Chpt 1
- With him was another man, also in a black peasant's smock and the dark gray trousers that were almost a uniform in that province, wearing rope-soled shoes and with a carbine slung over his back.†
Chpt 1
- Robert Jordan saw a woman of about fifty almost as big as Pablo, almost as wide as she was tall, in black peasant skirt and waist, with heavy wool socks on heavy legs, black rope-soled shoes and a brown face like a model for a granite monument.†
Chpt 2
- It was a peasant's face, the cheeks hollow under the high cheekbones, the beard stubbled, the eyes shaded by the heavy brows, big hands holding the rifle, heavy boots showing beneath the folds of the blanket cape.†
Chpt 3
- "We will take the message," Robert Jordan said and he thought how the word aburmiento which means boredom in Spanish was a word no peasant would use in any other language.†
Chpt 3
- You murderer of peasants.†
Chpt 10
- And as we stood there the sun rose over the far hills and shone now on the road where we stood and on the white wall of the barracks and the dust in the air was golden in that first sun and the peasant who was beside me looked at the wall of the barracks and what lay there and then looked at us and then at the sun and said, 'Vaya, a day that commences.'†
Chpt 10
- I looked at him and he was a peasant dressed in his Sunday jacket and sweating heavily and I said, 'No, Joaquan.†
Chpt 10
- 'Then you will learn,' the peasant next to him said.†
Chpt 10
- 'That is the beauty of it,' another peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- And then, when the plaza was nicely moistened and the dust settled, the lines formed up again and a peasant shouted, 'When do we get the first fascist?†
Chpt 10
- Then the peasant who stood beside me said, 'This is shameful.†
Chpt 10
- He looked at the double line of peasants and he spat on the ground.†
Chpt 10
- 'Two thieves,' a short peasant said to the man who had shouted.†
Chpt 10
- 'I am as good a Libertarian Republican as thou,' the short peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- 'Don Faustino,' a peasant called.†
Chpt 10
- I was walking along parallel to the line to see what happened to him and a peasant leaned down and lifted him to his feet and said, 'Get up, Don Faustino, and keep walking.†
Chpt 10
- Don Faustino could not walk alone and the peasant in a black smock helped him on one side and another peasant in a black smock and herdsman's boots helped him on the other, supporting him by the arms and Don Faustino walking along between the lines with his hands over his eyes, his lips never quiet, and his yellow hair slicked on his head and shining in the sun, and as he passed the peasants would say, 'Don Faustino, buen provecho.†
Chpt 10
- Don Faustino could not walk alone and the peasant in a black smock helped him on one side and another peasant in a black smock and herdsman's boots helped him on the other, supporting him by the arms and Don Faustino walking along between the lines with his hands over his eyes, his lips never quiet, and his yellow hair slicked on his head and shining in the sun, and as he passed the peasants would say, 'Don Faustino, buen provecho.†
Chpt 10
- Don Faustino could not walk alone and the peasant in a black smock helped him on one side and another peasant in a black smock and herdsman's boots helped him on the other, supporting him by the arms and Don Faustino walking along between the lines with his hands over his eyes, his lips never quiet, and his yellow hair slicked on his head and shining in the sun, and as he passed the peasants would say, 'Don Faustino, buen provecho.†
Chpt 10
- No. No. Then the peasants who were with him and the others, the hard ones of the end of the line, squatted quickly behind him as he knelt, and gave him a rushing push and he was over the edge without ever having been beaten and you heard him crying loud and high as he fell.†
Chpt 10
- 'Let us have another,' a peasant called out and another peasant slapped him on the back and said, 'Don Faustino!†
Chpt 10
- 'Let us have another,' a peasant called out and another peasant slapped him on the back and said, 'Don Faustino!†
Chpt 10
- 'In my life,' another peasant said, 'in my life I've never seen a thing like Don Faustino.'†
Chpt 10
- 'There are others,' another peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- 'There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- Two peasants from the lines walked over, talking together, and one of them called to me, 'What passes with thee, Pilar?'†
Chpt 10
- 'Then, nothing,' the one peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- "A peasant who had left the lines and now stood in the shade of the arcade looked at them in disgust and said, 'They should shout, "Long live drunkenness."†
Chpt 10
- 'They don't believe even in that,' another peasant said.†
Chpt 10
- You stayed with a peasant and his family.†
Chpt 11
- The peasants stayed and took the punishment.†
Chpt 11
- He had a big, blond, ruddy Flemish face and huge awkward peasant hands and he moved, with the dishes, as powerfully and awkwardly as a draft horse.†
Chpt 11
- Is the land there owned by the peasants?
Chpt 16 *peasants = poor farmers
- Gaylord's was the place where you met famous peasant and worker Spanish commanders who had sprung to arms from the people at the start of the war without any previous military training and found that many of them spoke Russian.†
Chpt 18
- They were peasants and workers.†
Chpt 18
- It was at Gaylord's that you learned that Valentin Gonzalez, called El Campesino or The Peasant, had never been a peasant but was an ex-sergeant in the Spanish Foreign Legion who had deserted and fought with Abd el Krim.†
Chpt 18
- It was at Gaylord's that you learned that Valentin Gonzalez, called El Campesino or The Peasant, had never been a peasant but was an ex-sergeant in the Spanish Foreign Legion who had deserted and fought with Abd el Krim.†
Chpt 18
- You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo.†
Chpt 18
- You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo.†
Chpt 18
- You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did.†
Chpt 18
- You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did.†
Chpt 18
- At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader.†
Chpt 18
- The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.†
Chpt 18
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