All 7 Uses of
peasant
in
Grendel
- They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange.†
Chpt 3
- The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king.†
Chpt 3
- Hrothulf speaks: In ratty furs the peasants hoe their fields, fat with stupidity, if not with flesh.†
Chpt 8
- At the end of a year he never spoke at all, unless he was forced to it or found himself alone with the foul old old peasant he met in the woods sometimes, his counselor.†
Chpt 8
- ...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).
Chpt 8 *peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
- The old peasant, friend of Prince Hrothulf, whispers crossly: "In the old days they used to kill virgins.†
Chpt 9
- Violence is truth, as the crazy old peasant told Hrothulf.†
Chpt 11
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