His subtle mujik mind clearly saw the bad impression which must be produced upon the woman who was so completely beneath the thraldom of his hypnotic eyes.
Yet the mujik mind always works in a mysterious way.
And then a Siberian mujik appeared, and against his own will he cut the arteries of the dark force, he stamped it in the mud, spitting at the very principle, the very idea, of autocratic bureaucracy.
His intelligence was, however, extremely perceptive, and he was not wanting in finesse of the mujik order, combined with a sense of foresight that was utterly amazing.
He either put some beggar against him, or himself threatened to rob and beat him, till the frightened mujik would disappear from the dosshouse and never more be seen.
The representative of the latter class was an old mujik called Tyapa.
A mujik cares but little for kings and queens; he only knows his own angel--his peculiar saint.
The Russian boyar dressed like a German knight; the Russian mujik dressed like an English churl.
A mujik asked a foreign friend to tell him who will be God when God dies?
In fact, a mujik is not a courtier--he is only a religious man.
The rebellion is unavoidable; no one will longer bear the heavy burden; from ragged mujik to titled magnate, all are yearning to burst the yoke, and the Kalevaines have more reason to weep than their fellows.
The Princess had by this time dressed all the mujik children.
An old mujik suddenly started the hymn of praise, and all present joined in it.
If he has filled his head with revolutionary writings he conceives himself to be a Robespierre, and every St. Petersburg mujik is a Paris sans culotte to him.
He was the deliverer, before whom the mujik and his family bent the knee; he would bring them relief from all their troubles.
The mujik was led to expect everything under heaven and earth; but his expectations were never realized.
The mujik very fortunately knew a postmaster who, if well paid, would not refuse at his request either to let or to sell a carriage or horses.
Michael Strogoff and the mujik soon arrived in the mercantile quarter of the lower town.
The mujik and Michael resumed their way and arrived at the posting-house.
In buying him at Omsk he had been lucky, and in taking him to the postmaster the generous mujik had rendered him a great service.
And the mujik related to Michael Strogoff the different incidents of the struggle which he had witnessed--the attack upon the ferry by the Tartar boats, the pillage of the tarantass, and the massacre of the boatmen.
The mujik was accordingly conducting his guest straight to the posting-house, when, in a narrow street, Michael Strogoff, coming to a sudden stop sprang behind a jutting wall.
But in Russia even the mujikhas constantly a temperature of nearly 77 deg.
Suddenly his ear catches a suspicious sound; he opens his eyes, and sees a mujik stooping down softly in the act of picking up one of his pistols.
If Denviers escaped uninjured we were to mount our sledge and make for the spot where she would be stationed, and hiding her beneath the wraps, to start on our long journey back to the mujik who had intrusted us with the task of saving her.
We have given our word to the mujik to render all the help we can.
There is surely the landmark of which the mujik spoke, and the peasant woman's dwelling cannot be far off.
Then the mujik who directed us here was mistaken," I persisted.
If that mujik told us the truth, we certainly ought to have seen it by this time.
I fell on my knees and kissed the hand that held mine; which would be honour enough for such as you, Barrinka, not to speak of a poor mujik like me.
Many a grave, bearded mujik keenly enjoyed the motion without labour so dear to the indolent and excitable Russian, although the women for the most part remained at home to prepare the tschi (or cabbage soup) for the festive evening meal.
Nor has the Czar given the mujik that which costs him nothing.
The hand that toiled so hard to bring back the perishing mujik from his death-like swoon was well used to deeds of beneficence.
Dear Barrinka,” pleaded Michael, “do not forget to tell our lord the Czar that a mujik who has lost one hand desires his leave to fight for him, and that he will serve him so faithfully.
The noble did not usually misuse his champagne as grossly as the mujik did his vodka; but this was the only particular in which he set his poorer brother a good example.
The mujik is a good fellow, but you will find it hard to move him.
At twelve or fourteen the little mujik is often a very handsome lad, as may be seen from the boy postilions of St. Petersburg.
But it would be almost as easy to bend the cold iron with your hand as to change the ways of the bearded mujik under the roof of his own izba.
Among the crowd of gazers below, who daily turned their eyes and their thoughts toward the angel, was a mujik called Telouchkine.
Next perhaps to the extreme literalness with which the Mujik interprets Holy Writ, this dissatisfaction with the official Church is the greatest cause of the grip which the chameleon-like "dissent" has taken hold of the popular mind.
Be the old legend true or false, it is certain that to this day the northern Mujikshows an even more marked religious enthusiasm than his brother of the central governments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mujik" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
