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The landlord's or the peasants'?†
Chpt 1.1

peasants = 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
Pavel, who was smoking, after a long silence jabbed with the end of his whip in another direction: "And those are the peasants'!†
Chpt 1.1
The peasants have been spoiled-treated too well.†
Chpt 1.1
Give the peasants rope and God knows we'll all be at each other's throats in no time.†
Chpt 1.1
A big ferry loaded with carts, horses, and peasants and their women started for the other shore.†
Chpt 1.1
A peasant woman began to wail.†
Chpt 1.1 *
The Tsar has signed a manifesto and everything's to be changed— everybody's to be treated right, the peasants are to have land, and we're all going to be equal with the gentry!†
Chpt 1.2

peasants = 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
The peasants are in rags and famished.†
Chpt 1.2
Lara wailed like a peasant woman and, grabbing Pasha's hands, threw herself at his feet.†
Chpt 1.4
They were living in a Galician peasant house.†
Chpt 1.4
Its position gave it a good view of the neighborhood; in addition to the square and the street it overlooked the adjoining farm (owned by a poor, provincial family who lived almost like peasants) as well as the Countess's old garden at the back.†
Chpt 2.5

peasants = 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
All the peasants care about at the moment is the land question.†
Chpt 2.5
Their legs stretched straight in front of them, their mothers sat on the ground with babies packed into the tight shapeless bosoms of their brown peasant coats.†
Chpt 2.5
They showed a cheerful, handsome, chubby little fellow with a cupid's-bow mouth, standing up on a blanket, bandylegged and with its fist up as if it were doing a peasant dance.†
Chpt 2.6
For about half an hour she wandered through the alleys in the neighborhood where you could sometimes catch a peasant from one of the villages outside Moscow selling vegetables and potatoes.†
Chpt 2.6
In the main streets, peasants with loads were liable to be arrested.†
Chpt 2.6

peasants = 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
A sturdy young fellow in a peasant's coat walked back with her, pulling a sleigh that looked as light as a toy, and followed her cautiously into the yard.†
Chpt 2.6
The young peasant carried five or six armloads up to the living room and took in exchange Tonia's small mirror wardrobe.†
Chpt 2.6
The others, in boots and unbuttoned caftans, or barefoot and in long shirts worn outside their trousers, with or without beards, stood at the half-open doors of the airless cars, holding on to the sides or to the boards nailed across the openings, and gazed sullenly at the peasants and villages by the wayside, speaking to no one.†
Chpt 2.7

peasants = 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
Long before it had stopped, sailors jumped off into the untrodden snow and raced around the corner of the station building where peasant women were usually to be found trading illegally in food.†
Chpt 2.7
The apprehensions of the peasant women were soon dispelled.†
Chpt 2.7
Antonina Alexandrovna felt as ashamed as if she had swindled the peasant woman, while she, delighted with her deal, called a friend who had also sold out her wares and made off with her, home to their village, striding down the snowy path into the distance.†
Chpt 2.7
Roast hare is an excellent thing, but to conclude that the peasants are prosperous is rash, to say the least, if you'll forgive my saying so.†
Chpt 2.7

peasants = 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
You'll find that there are peasant rebellions everywhere.†
Chpt 2.7
You'll say, Aha, that's because the peasants are enemies of all authority, they don't know what they want.†
Chpt 2.7

peasants = 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
The peasant knows very well what he wants, better than you or I do, but he wants something quite different.†
Chpt 2.7
I want to believe that the peasants are better off and nourishing.†
Chpt 2.7

peasants = 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
Just about all the seven deadly sins: Dissolved their Poor Peasants' Committee, that's one; refused to supply horses to the Red Army, that's two (and they're all Tartars, mind you, horsemen); resisted the mobilization decree, that makes three.†
Chpt 2.7
Or been killed by the peasants?†
Chpt 2.7
His fighting record over the past few months included the actions at Nizhni Kelmes and Ust-Nemdinsk, the suppression of the Gubysov peasants who had put up armed resistance to food levies, and of the men of the 14th Infantry who had plundered a food convoy.†
Chpt 2.7
Greens: Anarchistic elements, chiefly peasants, who fought both Reds and Whites.†
Chpt 2.7
Most of them are middle peasants, but you find all sorts of people-poor peasants, unfrocked monks, sons of kulaks up in arms against their fathers.†
Chpt 2.8
Most of them are middle peasants, but you find all sorts of people-poor peasants, unfrocked monks, sons of kulaks up in arms against their fathers.†
Chpt 2.8
And there's no end of peasant folk inside it, the Forest Brotherhood is there.†
Chpt 2.8
The other day-and now it really was Shrovetide-right in the middle of the spring floods, a sick peasant drove his sleigh into the yard through the mud and slush.†
Chpt 2.9
And everything in those days had been fine and rich and seemly-church services and dances and people and mannerseverything had rejoiced her heart, for all that her own family were simple people who came of peasant and worker stock.†
Chpt 2.10
In times gone by, it had been crowded on market days with peasants' carts.†
Chpt 2.10

peasants = 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
In a case like yours suggestion can do wonders; it's what the peasants do, after all.†
Chpt 2.10
The toiling peasantry of Siberia and the Urals must understand that only in alliance with the city proletariat and the soldiers, only in alliance with the poor Kirghiz and Buriat peasants ...†
Chpt 2.10
Willy-nilly, the Siberian peasant will now pursue the end for which the workers of Siberia began to fight long ago.†
Chpt 2.10
Their common goal is the overthrow of the hateful autocracy of hetmans and admirals, and the establishment, by means of an armed uprising, of the power of the peasants' and soldiers' Soviets.†
Chpt 2.10

peasants = 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
He was chosen for it-though he was anything but a soldier —partly as a tribute to his long years of revolutionary service and his ordeals in Tsarist prisons, and partly on the assumption that, as a former member of the co-operative movement, he knew the mood of the peasant masses in insurgent western Siberia.†
Chpt 2.10
When calm was restored, Kostoied went on: "In order to keep up with the growing movement of the peasant masses, it is essential to establish contact at once with all the partisan units operating in the territory of the Party Provincial Committee."†
Chpt 2.10
While the peasant army was passing through the villages or small towns, everything else in them sank into insignificance.†
Chpt 2.11
Her sister had starved for some time but was now working for her keep in the village of Zvonarskaia as a servant in a family of peasants who were related to her.†
Chpt 2.11

peasants = 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
In spite of setbacks and frequent retreats, the ranks of the partisans were continually swollen by new insurgents from the settlements through which the peasant hordes passed and by deserters from the enemy.†
Chpt 2.11
You have an atrophied social sense, just like an illiterate peasant woman or a bourgeois diehard.†
Chpt 2.11
Terrified by the punitive measures of the Whites, all the peasants of the surrounding countryside had fled from their homes and now sought to join the partisans, whom they regarded as their natural protectors.†
Chpt 2.12

peasants = 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
Of peasants and villages that no longer existl Don't they remember their own plans and measures, which long since turned life upside down?†
Chpt 2.13
Their son-my nephew, that ishe's at the head of the peasant forces-he's quite a celebrity.†
Chpt 2.13

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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
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