I have heard of the Czar Peter,” said Ivan: “he ordered all the mujiks to cut off their beards, threatening to cut off their heads if they refused.
His tears unlocked the floodgates of the general sorrow; all the mujiks standing around him wept and wrung their hands, like the grown-up children that in truth they were.
Everywhere the mujiks said, “Our lord the Czar loves us.
The mujiks were too glad to see him on any terms to be critical about the quality of his performances.
For the priest too she had a word of kindness; and to each of the rough, bearded mujiks she gave her hand, which they were fain to kneel and kiss.
All crossed themselves and murmured a prayer for his soul; and the oldest of the mujiks detached a little sacred picture from his own neck and laid it on his breast.
From the mujiks of Nicolofsky heavy dues were exacted, and much labour required in the corn-fields of their lord.
The group on the shore waited in mournful silence while the boatman and two of the mujiks went and returned, bringing with them their solemn freight, which they laid sadly and reverently on the fair greensward, beneath the happy morning sun.
He would like to know what brought him there, he was heard to mutter; adding that the less boyars and mujiks had to say to one another the better for both.
The land was not unpeopled; but the peasants had lost their sense of home, and the mujiks wandered from town to town.
No richer comedy is seen on any stage than that presented by two tipsy mujiks riding on a sledge, putting their beards together and throwing their arms about each other's neck.
These busts were worshipped by the mujiks as if they were pictures of saints; they took the place of the crucifix to them.
With night, axe and knife would begin their work; seventy thousand mujiks would decide who should be Russia's future ruler!
She reports:-- "I found the great monastery of Pokrovsky to be a dirty repellent hamlet of mujiks of the worst and most illiterate type.
The one were the Asiatics who were being expelled; the other, mujiks stopping at Kasan.
I have heard Spanish words used by Russian mujiks and Turkish fig-gatherers—I have this day heard a Spanish word in the mountains of Wales, and I have no doubt that were I to go to Iceland I should find Spanish words used there.
I never heard French words or German words used by Russian mujiks and Turkish fig-gatherers.
The sun of spring has done its work on the Neva; the great river flows tranquilly on, a blessing and a joy; the mujiks are forgotten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mujiks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
