All 8 Uses
peasant
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- A few peasants waited on a bench, hands between their knees.†
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 old peasants knelt there before the holy images with their arms held out in the attitude of the cross: tired by the long day's labour in the plantations they squeezed out a further mortification.†
Chpt 1.2
- All his life had lain here: the Syndicate of Workers and Peasants had once been a school.†
Chpt 1.2
- They passed the new hall built for the Syndicate of Workers and Peasants: through the window they could see the big bold clever murals — of one priest caressing a woman in the confessional, another tippling on the sacramental wine.†
Chpt 1.4
- He went back to his mule and kicked it gently, 'Up, mule, up,' a small gaunt man in torn peasant's clothes going for the first time in many years, like any ordinary man, to his home.†
Chpt 2.1
- They were too young to remember the old days when the priests dressed in black and wore Roman collars and had soft superior patronizing hands; he could see they were mystified at the show of respect to a peasant like their parents.†
Chpt 2.1
- No. He had no intention of angering the police officer, but he had had very little practice the last eight years in talking to any but a few peasants and Indians.†
Chpt 3.3peasants = 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 come out and have dinner with him and it's your duty not to know that he has murdered a peasant.†
Chpt 3.3
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)