There are at the caravansarai a number of travellers, among them a moujik of the Don, travelling to Teheran and beyond in company with a Tabreez Turk.
Gorki portrays the much-belauded moujik as a pitiable money-grubber, a detestable associate, who loses all higher motives in his struggle for the means of existence.
Nor is it the guilty sense of Raskolnikov that impels this moujik to confession and reparation.
The moujik who drifts into the City proletariat suffers from the life that whispers its secrets within and around him.
There is a story that a moujik waylaid and killed a traveler, and while rifling the pockets of his victim found a cake containing meat.
The moujik bore the stamp of servility as the negro slave bore it, and it will take as much time to wear it away in the one as the other.
An able-bodied moujik scrubbed me so thoroughly as to suggest the possibility of removing the cuticle.
I accepted that moujikas a priceless work of art, and it was not until I was well in middle age that it occurred to me that I was mistaken.
There was also a Russian moujik drawing a gilt sledge on a piece of malachite.
All men are equal--moujik and bárin, krestyanin and prince.
When the famine comes, and come it assuredly will, the moujik has no alternative but to stay where he is and starve.
But would themoujik pause to enquire, my very dear De Chauxville?
I should not care to handle any stray moujik one finds dead about the roadside; unless, of course, you think there is more money about him.
Some day the moujik will erect unto himself a rough sort of a guillotine, but not in our day.
The moujik does not like a draught; in fact, he hates the fresh air of heaven.
With this difference," added Steinmetz, "that the moujik will one day make the discovery.
Our Moujik fitted a handle to the blade, and began to strip lime-trees in the forest with it, of the bark he wanted for shoes, while at home he unceremoniously splintered fir chips with it.
The Moujik took the stone into his lumbering cart, and conveyed it to the city.
And she was walking about, first one way and then the other, looking at the finest hut that God ever gave a poor moujik to keep him from the rain and the cold, and the too great heat of the sun.
But the moujik scattered his straw before them as they went in, and it became so cold in there that the Fool of the World had scarcely time to wash himself before the water in the cauldrons froze to solid ice.
The moujik dominates the stage, even after the generous lopping from the partition of some of the choruses.
The Moujik blouse and those delightful tableaux of a real nobleman shoemaking and haymaking make his books sell.
How comes it," thinks he, "that themoujik looks like that?
The moujik unharnessed his horse and set it free to graze; meanwhile he laid himself down on one of the graves.
They all had to pass along a bridge over a deep river; the moujik managed to give the Zluidni a shove, and over they went, mill-stones and all, and sank straight to the bottom.
Elijah was appeased and didn't threaten to hurt the Moujik any more.
With rich booty did the fisherman return to Novgorod, where he met the moujik with the blue caftan, and gave him the petition.
Elijah, guessing the truth, "it's you who go and tell the Moujik everything!
There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year.
The moujik gave him one, and asked when he should come for his money.
Then the moujik immediately dug up his treasure and began living in the best manner possible.
But to thee, Nicholas, because thou didst assist the moujik to set free his cart, shall men twice every year offer up thanksgiving.
A fiddler was on his way to the revel when, all of a sudden, he sank into the earth--sank right through and tumbled into hell, lighting exactly there where the rich moujik was being tormented.
The moujik was horrified, and knew not which way to go--whether to keep on or to turn back.
A moujik was driving along one night with a load of pots.
He at once transferred the responsibility from his own shoulders, by going out into the yard and kicking the first yemschik he met, which seems to be the most civil kind of salutation a Russian moujik expects.
This afforded the officer an opportunity, which the higher classes in Russia never let slip, of commenting on the low state of Russian morality, that is, of the merchant and moujik class, as distinguished from nous autres.
A moujik killed a traveller on the road, and robbed him.
Inside the backyard was a dead moujik which he is got run over by a train.
They give me the money and I run away; and the dead moujik they are telling everybody is me, which I am blew up to pieces by the package.
And you let the old man bury the moujik and think it was you?
Tell her, he said, that next time man meets moujik matters will end less happily for the moujik; she had better send him out of Moscow, there is less danger for him without than within the walls.
The moujik returned to the battlefield, where he spent the night reaping a glorious harvest, with other vultures of his kidney, from the unfortunate dead and dying.
This is the way, lady," he said, in the obsequious manner of the moujik who expects largess.
I would rather she mated with a good Frenchman than with a--what do you call them--a Moujik of Russia.
Long before four o'clock she was afoot and on the way to Bieloy, having left the worthy moujik and his wife snoring in peaceful harmony.
A moment later the moujik rushed out of the hut to his wife, who stood and shivered without in the cold rain which was half snow.
On hearing the wolfman's tale, which that worthy quickly made known at the village drinking-shop, every moujik present was horrified with the sacrilegious words of the lord.
It is remarkable, that this same writer, enchanting with his honesty and truthfulness, has looked at the moujik as well, more than once.
And when I look and look upon the labour of a moujik or a labourer, I am thrown into hysterics for shame at my algebraic calculations.
What has it given us about the moujik save odious, false, nationalistic pastorals?
The dumb and submissive moujik found in Tolstoy a living voice to express his sufferings.
He might have been a moujik for all the pleasure he found in life.
Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide.
By this time a moujikcame along, and finding the Fox in the den he made short work with him.
So the moujik killed the Fox and stripped off his skin, saying to the Badger, "You may go free; his skin is worth five kopeks, but yours only two.
But you are more limber than I, so just slip gently in and pull out the meat, while I keep watch that the moujik who put it here does not suddenly catch us napping.
The cow-herd woman and a moujik who was at work in the court were laughing heartily; the little boy's brother, who was cutting wood in the shed, came out to see what it was all about.
So the grandmother began: Once upon a time there was a moujik who had a perfectly white Dog, which he called Whiteling.
Wherever the moujik digs or ploughs he does his best to root me out, tearing and clawing me with all his might.
At this moment the moujik came running up, crying from afar, "Hold on, my falcon-badger!
He was thus at work when an old moujik came along and stood watching them.
As luck would have it, a moujik was standing behind the tree, and he fetched the Wolf a blow on the head with his axe.
The apathy of the Russian moujik is the truly wonderful part of his nature.
There is in every Russian moujik an inherent love of the Czar, a personal loyalty to him, which deifies and renders its object infallible in the eyes of his subjects, and this takes much to eradicate.
The only musical instrument was one in great favour amongst the moujik class--I mean the concertina.
There is also a great timidity in it; for the Russian moujik or christianik (peasant farmer) has scarcely been sure his soul is his own, since time immemorable.
For more than a century and a half, themoujik had been a beast of burden, toiling as he was bid, and finding recreation only in besotting himself with strong drink whenever he could find the means to indulge.
Transportation facilities increased by the aid of French capital, and added to the prosperity of merchants and speculators, but did not help the moujik who did not know how to profit by them.
The poor moujik did not know that he was saddled with a debt which neither he nor his children could hope to pay; but he did know that he was charged with a debt which he had not incurred.
But Peter the Great gave as little thought to the moujik as did Louis XIV to the peasants of France.
A noble who killed a moujik was fined or sometimes whipped; but he might kill as many slaves as he pleased, because they were his property.
It is a proverb on the lips of every moujik in Petersburg that all Russia obeys the Czar, and the Czar obeys the Tchin.
The moment its prestige is gone, and the moujik feels the pinch of famine, our chance will come.
The moujik at least may manage to learn something--in the drink-shop, or who knows where?
Put a moujik in its uniform and to-morrow he is a grenadier and proud of it.
Even the moujik has come to feel a pride and confidence in his army and in its victories.
But of such stuff are the moujik soldiers of the Czar.
These moujik chaps,” he assured me, “never make a complaint.
The moujik in his heavy, ponderous way is behind this war.
The Manchurian campaign was unpopular, not in the least understood, and yet the Russian moujik hung on and on month after month.
As the moujik would say: 'Sad and bitter is the poor man's lot.
It was very bitter to me to leave my Fatherland, but as the moujik says: 'Necessity brings everything.
As the moujik says: 'If the goat doesn't want to go to market it is compelled to go.
Your kindness is suspicious, for, as the moujik says: 'The devil has guests.
When the strange moujik had departed he confided the story to a friend, who was, like the starost, immediately assailed by similar uncomfortable thoughts, which played havoc with the repose of his inmost soul.
Then, again, Tatiana was the sage femme of the district, and ushered into the world every little squalling moujik that was unfortunate enough to be born into this vale of tears and poverty.
Had the evil eye fallen upon a moujik or woman of the place?
Two days after this tragedy a strange moujik sauntered into the village of Tirnova and called to see the starost, who, as it happened, was at home and received him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moujik" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
