All 8 Uses
peasant
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Tender is the Night
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- The villa and its grounds were made out of a row of peasant dwellings that abutted on the cliff—five small houses had been combined to make the house and four destroyed to make the garden.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- As the story concluded Dohmler sat back in the focal armchair of the middle class and said to himself sharply, "Peasant!"†
Chpt 2.3
- In Saanen, they poured into the municipal dance, crowded with cow herders, hotel servants, shop-keepers, ski teachers, guides, tourists, peasants.†
Chpt 2.13peasants = 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
- Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.†
Chpt 2.14
- Presently Dick found them, surrounded by women who were examining them with delight like fine goods, and by peasant children staring.†
Chpt 2.15
- Wolf-like under his sheep's clothing of long-staple Australian wool, he considered the world of pleasure—the incorruptible Mediterranean with sweet old dirt caked in the olive trees, the peasant girl near Savona with a face as green and rose as the color of an illuminated missal.†
Chpt 2.16
- With the narrowed vision of his one eye Dick could see the carabinieri; they were Tuscan peasants with short upper lips and he found it difficult to associate them with the brutality of last night.†
Chpt 2.23peasants = 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
- I know all the old Languedoc peasant remedies.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)