All 8 Uses of
peasant
in
Uncle Vanya
- The peasants were all lying side by side in their huts, and the calves and pigs were running about the floor among the sick.†
Act 1 *
- [Hurriedly, to the nurse] There are some peasants waiting out there.†
Act 1
- What did the peasants want, nurse?†
Act 1
- But when I pass peasant-forests that I have preserved from the axe, or hear the rustling of the young plantations set out with my own hands, I feel as if I had had some small share in improving the climate, and that if mankind is happy a thousand years from now I will have been a little bit responsible for their happiness.†
Act 1
- The peasants are all alike; they are stupid and live in dirt, and the educated people are hard to get along with.†
Act 2
- It is only in novels that women go out and teach and heal the peasants; how can I suddenly begin to do it?†
Act 3
- A door to the left leads into an inner room; one to the right leads into the front hall, and before this door lies a mat for the peasants with their muddy boots to stand on.†
Act 4
- I have been swept off my feet; I have not put my hand to a thing for weeks, during which sickness has been running its course unchecked among the people, and the peasants have been pasturing their cattle in my woods and young plantations.†
Act 4
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