All 19 Uses
peasant
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- My idea was to disguise myself as a freeman of peasant degree and wander through the country a week or two on foot.†
Chpt 24
- That is all right, I thought—peasants going to work; nobody else likely to be stirring this early.†
Chpt 27peasants = 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 are a peasant, you know.†
Chpt 27
- If we are going to succeed in our emprise, we must not only look the peasant but act the peasant.†
Chpt 27
- If we are going to succeed in our emprise, we must not only look the peasant but act the peasant.†
Chpt 27
- If I could have foreseen what the thing was going to be like, I should have said, No, if anybody wants to make his living exhibiting a king as a peasant, let him take the layout; I can do better with a menagerie, and last longer.†
Chpt 27
- What would a lord say—yes, or any other person of whatever condition —if he caught an upstart peasant with a dagger on his person?†
Chpt 27
- A peasant's cap was no safe disguise for it; you could know it for a king's under a diving-bell, if you could hear it work its intellect.†
Chpt 27
- Turn aside to avoid trampling peasant dirt under foot?†
Chpt 27
- When had he ever turned aside himself—or ever had the chance to do it, if a peasant saw him or any other noble knight in time to judiciously save him the trouble?†
Chpt 27
- There was a hole there which would afford steady work for all the people in that region for some years to come —in trying to explain it, I mean; as for filling it up, that service would be comparatively prompt, and would fall to the lot of a select few—peasants of that seignory; and they wouldn't get anything for it, either.†
Chpt 27peasants = 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
- On the morning of the fourth day, when it was just sunrise, and we had been tramping an hour in the chill dawn, I came to a resolution: the king must be drilled; things could not go on so, he must be taken in hand and deliberately and conscientiously drilled, or we couldn't ever venture to enter a dwelling; the very cats would know this masquerader for a humbug and no peasant.†
Chpt 28
- The rude statues of his ancestors in his palace should have an addition—I would see to that; and it would not be a mailed king killing a giant or a dragon, like the rest, it would be a king in commoner's garb bearing death in his arms that a peasant mother might look her last upon her child and be comforted.†
Chpt 29
- To imprison these men without proof, and starve their kindred, was no harm, for they were merely peasants and subject to the will and pleasure of their lord, no matter what fearful form it might take; but for these men to break out of unjust captivity was insult and outrage, and a thing not to be countenanced by any conscientious person who knew his duty to his sacred caste.†
Chpt 30peasants = 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
- We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head.†
Chpt 34
- The peasant toiled his difficult way up.†
Chpt 34
- The gentleman inspected us critically, then said sharply to the peasants: "What are ye doing to these people?"†
Chpt 34peasants = 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 had found it a sufficiently difficult job to reduce the king's style to a peasant's style, even when he was a willing and anxious pupil; now then, to undertake to reduce the king's style to a slave's style—and by force—go to!†
Chpt 35
- He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife.
Chpt 44 *peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
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)