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The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village.†
The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.†
Though a peasant's life is not a fat one, it is a long one.†
Busy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads.†
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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 pleased that the peasant's wife had led her husband into boasting, and that he had said that if he had plenty of land he would not fear the Devil himself.†
She had always lived on good terms with the peasants, until she engaged as her steward an old soldier, who took to burdening the people with fines.†

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
When the peasants heard this they were very much alarmed.†
So the peasants went on behalf of their Commune, and asked the lady not to sell the land to the innkeeper; offering her a better price for it themselves.†
Then the peasants tried to arrange for the Commune to buy the whole estate, so that it might be held by all in common.†
III So Pahom was well contented, and everything would have been right if the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his cornfields and meadows.†
He knew it was the peasants' want of land, and no evil intent on their part, that caused the trouble; but he thought: "I cannot go on overlooking it, or they will destroy all I have.†
So he had them up, gave them one lesson, and then another, and two or three of the peasants were fined.†
One peasant even got into Pahom's wood at night and cut down five young lime trees for their bark.†
One day Pahom was sitting at home, when a peasant passing through the village, happened to call in.†
Pahom had a talk with this peasant and asked him where he came from.†
One peasant, he said, had brought nothing with him but his bare hands, and now he had six horses and two cows of his own.†
The peasants had plenty of land: every man had twenty-five acres of Communal land given him for his use, and any one who had money could buy, besides, at fifty-cents an acre as much good freehold land as he wanted.†

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
After a time Pahom noticed that some peasant-dealers were living on separate farms, and were growing wealthy; and he thought: "If I were to buy some freehold land, and have a homestead on it, it would be a different thing, altogether.†
Wherever there was good land to be had, the peasants would rush for it and it was taken up at once, so that unless you were sharp about it you got none.†

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
It happened in the third year that he and a dealer together rented a piece of pasture land from some peasants; and they had already ploughed it up, when there was some dispute, and the peasants went to law about it, and things fell out so that the labor was all lost.†
It happened in the third year that he and a dealer together rented a piece of pasture land from some peasants; and they had already ploughed it up, when there was some dispute, and the peasants went to law about it, and things fell out so that the labor was all lost.†
So Pahom began looking out for land which he could buy; and he came across a peasant who had bought thirteen hundred acres, but having got into difficulties was willing to sell again cheap.†
I will sell the poorer land, or let it to peasants, but I'll pick out the best and farm it.†

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 as Pahom was going to ask, "Have you been here long?" he saw that it was not the dealer, but the peasant who had come up from the Volga, long ago, to Pahom's old home.†
Then he saw that it was not the peasant either, but the Devil himself with hoofs and horns, sitting there and chuckling, and before him lay a man barefoot, prostrate on the ground, with only trousers and a shirt on.†

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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
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