Therefore when the call of war came to the moujiks in their far-off homes, we saw them answering it as if it had been the call of their faith.
We have seen the moujiks being mobilized in remote parts of the vast country, and have found it a moving picture.
The two moujiksfollowed the example of the master of the house, and fell down side by side on the ground.
Two moujiks took him by the arms and led him towards the serfs' quarters, followed by Ivan.
The message was extremely to the point, though very short, and ran thus: "Tell the starost and his moujiks and the pastuch that they are a set of drivelling fools.
He could hardly expect the moujiks themselves to attend on ordinary Sundays!
Thus did the moujiks of Tirnova observe the counsels of their priest; their obedience went as far as their convenience, and no further.
Of the moujiks still remaining alive, however, some few were found presumptuous enough to laugh to scorn the very idea of holding a pagan function in order to complete that which the Christian ceremony had omitted or failed to perform!
The quantity of moujiks in their red shirts made a good effect of colour, but the women are not attractive, nor pretty.
The lamp, shaded, was burning, and in came one of the moujiks quite quietly.
That night there was a wedding in Duapsè, and every one naturally got drunk; and whilst I was tossing in high fever on my bed a score of drunken moujiks in enormous boots were dancing and shouting in the next room.
This I received doubtfully, and through my man made many offers, but even ten roubles a day were refused by moujiks to whom a hundred roubles would have been a fortune with which to rest content for life.
If the Tartars and moujiks of the steppes where the eagle-owl is found are to be believed, once the great bird seizes its prey, it has not itself the power of relaxing its grip immediately.
The cowherd woman and the two moujiks who helped the starosta on the land, slept, of course, in the stalls with the cattle under the shed that went around three sides of the court.
They were glad to go into their pen, and the little boy was glad when his father gave him a pail with food in it and let him help the moujiks feed them.
The two moujiks put on their warm sheepskin clothes and went to look for them, taking Watch, the sheep-dog, with them.
She had never been in Great Russia, in fact; she had never seen those moujiks in the flesh.
The ignorant, unkemptmoujiks that we treat like beasts are in reality angels compared to us.
No, no; our moujiks are not so destitute of sense as to be willing to save you to their own hurt.
Illustration] Whilst the bells and the moujiks were singing in unison, the processions commenced to pass over the road.
Mishinka," said the woman, "arise and go to the moujiks in the field.
Ivan then ordered them off to the barn, telling the astonished and mystified moujiks that they must not follow him.
Not far from my estate this spring some moujiks were working on a railway embankment.
Even among the moujiks this fashion has become acclimated.
Well," said the superintendent, "have you ordered the moujiksto plough to-day?
The moujiks then appeared on the scene and began to fight among themselves for the possession of the yellow objects.
The moujiks perspired, stamping the boards with their boots until the lamps rattled and shook, and the smoke rolled out of the chimneys; embracing the heavy forms of the women with hands worn and still grimy with toil.
The floor of the room was crowded with dancers; sturdy, square-faced moujiks in high boots; and their sweethearts in kerchiefs and short skirts.
There were three of the filthiest and most revolting moujiks I have ever looked upon squatting upon the floor of a considerable cave, and they were busy dividing the property of a man who lay dead by their fireside.
He had lands behind Nijni as vast as a province, and it would have been difficult to count the number of moujiks who worked for him on his property.
The reporter watched fifty moujiks flat on their stomachs crawling up the ridge, behind two of their number whose heads alone topped the ridge.
I reproached him with being as womanish as we were in going down on his knees to the general behind Natacha and me, when it became necessary to kill all those poor moujiksof Presnia.
Rouletabille turned his head at the sound of two moujiks who entered, carrying a long basket.
The moujiks of Osterno gazed at him beneath their shaggy brows.
The moujiks are remonstrating and even rebelling in consequence.
Owners of beards paid from thirty to one hundred rubles, and moujiks had to pay two pence for theirs every time they entered a city or town.
Ivan the Terrible called them the moujiks of commerce.
The moujiks were followed to the rendezvous by their wives, who made confusion worse confounded by their frantic yelling and pushing, each one eager to get her own protege into a good place.
A boat was soon loaded by ourselves and a few other passengers, and half-a-dozen lusty moujiks tracked us slowly up the stream by means of a rope.
One has only to remember the many accounts of abject resignation by the peasants of France and the moujiks of Russia before the revolutions that changed the order of the past in those countries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moujiks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
