Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

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We pay our slave laborers the corvee, forced work parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

I rebel as stoutly as I can against this horrible, corvee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen] Reference

Now the US wants to establish corvee labor in a society where they have no ability to protect the workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

They were responsible for a land tax, a tribute tax, and military and corvee duties, much like the system in Tang China.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Korea, 1392-1800] Reference

Ben quoi on fait c'qu'on peut dans la vie je suis de corvee de paquet obligatoirement dans l'tas ya les miens de cadeau!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

Je ne l'ai malheureusement regardé qu'aujourd'hui midi puisqu'hier j'étais de corvee de papiers peint, non sans mal.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

The kitcleaning-it took hours, and then, when you had finished it, your own kit was still to do-was the most detested corvee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

The man's one living son, traveling to market, had fallen foul of a Roman patrol and had been impressed into a corvee for road work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 2)] Reference

The canal was indeed built by what amounted to slavery, the forced labour (corvee) of the Egyptian peasants being enforced by the rawhide whip of the overseers (courbash).    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants mostly to build roads is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789.    From Wordnik.com.  [corvee - French Word-A-Day] Reference

If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants (mostly to build roads) is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789.    From Wordnik.com.  [corvee - French Word-A-Day] Reference

It was very evident that the monarch was heartily glad when the corvee was over. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century]

Labour for large scale state works was provided by the public under a corvee requirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I had some really clever remark about reinstituting the corvee but I can't get the comment to post.    From Wordnik.com.  [protein wisdom] Reference

The seignior pays six sous for food, each corvée, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Regime] Reference

You get someone like Obama together with someone like Emmanuel this sort of forced labor, or corvee, is just gonna pop up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

They had in 1756 remonstrated with the king against the corvee, declaring that the condition of the peasantry of France was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Adam Smith]

Solomon signalized his reign by numerous splendid buildings, and for this purpose made extensive use of the corvee or forced labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

I hear that you have taught the peasants to complain of the seigniorial rights, and to expect to have the corvee and all other dues remitted. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Pearls] Reference

Not slaves of the corvee -- serfs of the feud -- but victims of its modern representative the tax, which is simply its commutation, and equally baneful in its effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

Thus, capitalist relations of production gradually supplant feudal relations with the development of trade and market-based production; wage labour autonomously replaces the corvee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET] Reference

'Not content with refusing revenue,' he continued, 'this outlander refuses also the begar' (this was the corvee or forced labour on the roads) 'and stirs my people up to the like treason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

They dug canals, opened harbours, drained marshes, made roads, which Arthur Young singles out for praise, and made them without the corvee under which the rest of rural France was groaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Adam Smith]

"fanompoana," or forced service, which answers very nearly to the old feudal service, and to the system known in Egypt as "corvee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century] Reference

Any society so underdeveloped that it had to rely on corvee to build a road is unlikely to have had the resources to pay toll collectors to stand at a tollboth all day and turn away anyone who didn’t throw a couple of clamshells into the basket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Threat of Forced Labor Through Mandatory “National Service”:] Reference

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Frohndienst; Fr. corvee).    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

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