All 14 Uses of
peasant
in
Call It Sleep
- All that day, as on all the days since spring began, her decks had been thronged by hundreds upon hundreds of foreigners, natives from almost every land in,the world, the jowled close-cropped Teuton, the full-bearded Russian, the scraggly-whiskered Jew, and among them Slovack peasants with docile faces, smooth-cheeked and swarthy Armenians, pimply Greeks, Danes with wrinkled eyelids.†
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- It's for peasants," to make his father laugh, to make his father answer, "/ think I do.†
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- But the peasants were awed.†
Book 1
- Now when I think of Europe, and of my hamlet, the first thought that comes to me, just as his first thought is a cow or a prize bull, my first thought is of the peasant women.†
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- "Exactly," said Luter, "Each one remembers what appealed to him, and I remember the peasant wenches.†
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- God knows, there must be enough Austrian peasants even in this land.†
Book 1
- And so my grandfather would fret when he saw her go dirtying her hands in the soil like any peasant's wife.†
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- "In Tysmenicz," he scowled sourly as he settled into a chair, "the peasant who tended my-"†
Book 1
- When I was a girl, the goyim built an 'altar' near a town some distance from Veljish because two peasants saw a light among the trees-yet nothing burning.†
Book 1
- The light the peasants saw?†
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- Then these peasants came along at night.†
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- And Herman and that peasant wench.†
Book 2
- And the peasant looking for him with an ax.†
Book 2
- There was a peasant watching us from afar.†
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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