The lot of women among the tribes, and among the peasantry, is not, from all I hear, an unhappy one. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Integrating the peasantry is a classic problem of modernization. From Wordnik.com. [Trade Observatory] Reference
Below the peasantry was a slave class, some state-owned and some in private hands. From Wordnik.com. [b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns] Reference
What impressed me as the one serious hardship of the peasantry was their hours of labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
The popular discontent was aggravated by the changes which the reformers introduced, and which the peasantry were the last to appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference
This decline of the peasantry was a grave menace to the empire, the military strength of which declined with the decline of popular independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The peasantry are a handsome intelligent race; and there was a gladsome sunny heaven spread over us, that rendered home and every scene we visited cheerful and bright. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
An ideological attachment to the "peasantry" means that landholdings are still far too small for people to make money from. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
"The bell calling the peasantry to their morning service awoke Matthew, who hastened to his cottage, which he found as closely barred and bolted as the night before. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
"peasantry"; and with few exceptions every citizen owned a piece of land and a home. From Wordnik.com. [An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea] Reference
4. Your critique of Secher's portrayal of social relations in Vendee refers to the Vendean "peasantry" smashing "feudalism". From Wordnik.com. [Ireland votes Yes, but Paris says No - to the tyrant Robespierre] Reference
There is no nobility, no gentry, no aristocracy, no peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The peasantry round about Pesth, and the poor wretches, Slavic and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
This is also the street of the jewellers patronised by the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
The peasantry hated privilege and Socialism with an equal and impartial hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The Khmer Rouge were already active there, mobilizing and organizing the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. ['I Knew Nothing'] Reference
Both shared an interest in repressing the peasantry, for reasons of power and money. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Amsterdam: Emergency Powers and Thailand's Internal Colonization] Reference
Many of the Tyrolese peasantry flocked to him, as did their Irish brethren to Greatrakes. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
This must have been rather uncomfortable, but the French peasantry seemed not to mind it at all. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
They were dispirited peasantry, fragmented, prone to internecine backstabbing and oppressive regimes. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Raised in a rural family, Popov seethed with resentment about Stalin's relentless persecution of the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...] Reference
But because they were raised in the austere values of a Maoist peasantry, they do all this in the spirit of stoic self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Taking 'Last Train Home' Shows Changes In China] Reference
French peasantry, whenever they came into the city, did not occupy much more space than the bags or packs of the universal carrier. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The irregular mode of warfare adopted by the peasantry, the great activity and constant skirmishings, stratagems, and ambuscades of Mina, the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
England, and he was familiar with the belief, current among the peasantry, that a person who had suffered from the cowpox could not take smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
In the other relievo, which decorates the eastern side of the pedestal, reapers and other peasantry are conversing and reposing from the toils of the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
What we have before said in reference to the wretched condition of the peasantry, as shown by contemporary evidence, is confirmed by the writer of the "Vision.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
And when government fails to measure up to such requirements, a now partially empowered peasantry may be even harder to control than one that before was truly desperate. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Land Rights] Reference
The booming southern coast, the miserable peasantry, the atmosphere of economic freedom and political fear -- all spring directly from the map laid down by the paramount leader. From Wordnik.com. [Charting The Deng Revolution] Reference
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