The French can go farther in calling up the men who work the land, because their peasant women can do the work of men.
This, I think, is true both of the bourgeois and peasant classes.
As a characteristic specimen of Russian peasant folk-lore, it seems to me to have more than ordinary interest and value.
Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour (Told in the Wexford Peasant Dialect.
The Three Crowns (Told in the Wexford Peasant Dialect.
I thought from the appearance of the land that everybody who lived upon it must be prosperous and happy, but a peasant whom I met was of another way of thinking.
Many of these peasant proprietors can barely keep body and soul together; but when they lie down upon their wretched beds at night, they feel thankful that the roof that covers them and the soil that supports them are their own.
A little beyond this village a peasant woman, whom I met picking up walnuts from the road that was strewn with them, lifted her wide-brimmed straw hat to me as I passed.
I had some talk with a peasant who had been watching my movements wonderingly.
I met a small peasant girl with a face as dark as a Moorish child's, and eyes wonderfully large and lustrous.
The peasant family who lived in it looked to their bit of land and their two or three cows to keep them, not to the auberge.
She was not less a peasant than any of the women around her, nor did she wish to be thought anything better.
It ceased completely at the Revolution, but has since been revived, and some thousand genuine pilgrims, chiefly of the peasant class, now visit Roc-Amadour every year.
In searching for the picturesque and the grandeur of nature, it is perfectly safe to go to those places which the peasant declares to be frightful by their ugliness.
No peasant would think of wasting a cartridge upon them; but the sharpshooting tourist, armed with a rifle, may be tempted to do so.
To dazzle the eye of the peasant may, and does, become the single aim of church ornamentation.
I can enter fully into the attachment of the French peasant to his bit of land, which, although it may yield him little more than his black bread, cannot be taken from him so long as he can manage to live by the sweat of his brow.
The appeal you would make to the Italian noble must be the same you would address to the humble peasanton his property.
Sometimes supposed to represent Donna Laura Eustachio, the peasant Duchess of Alphonso I.
Now we come upon a little wide-eyed peasant boy, keeping goats among the ruins, like Giotto of old.
The poor peasant girl had lived in the cold all her life, and as she justly says: "We of the country are not as delicate as the Parisian ladies.
The mock culture and shallow education which inspire peasant folk with awe, which lure the children away from home, only to crush the vitality out of them or to turn them into cowards and compromisers.
The type of Akim is most vividly characterized by Tolstoy in the talk between the old peasant and the new help on the farm.
Yet he clings to his money and slave-drives his young wife, Anisya, his two daughters by a first marriage, and his peasant servant Nikita.
But if the demand is so limited that the domestic manufacture can do more than satisfy it, the price is naturally kept down to the lowest rate at which peasant families think it worth while to continue the production.
In the description which has been frequently given of the system of peasant proprietorship, it is shown how powerfully the industry of the laborer is stimulated by the feeling of property.
In France the question shapes itself to the peasant proprietor, How many can be subsisted by the amount of produce, not on an unlimited area of land in other parts of the world, but on this particular property of a small size?
The peasant does not subsist this year on the produce of this year’s harvest, but on that of the last.
Mention and discuss some of the popular remedies for low wages, and especially the effect of the subdivision of landed property among peasant proprietors.
Sir Konrad at once hurried back, but the valiant charcoal- burner still held his ground, dangerous as the fight was between the peasant unarmed except for the long pole, and the fully accoutered knight of gigantic size and strength.
The flanks of the Austrian host began to advance so as to enclose the small peasant force, and involve it in irremediable destruction.
He put on a peasant dress, and hid some corks under it, supposing that he should find no passage by the bridge over the Tiber.
Yet, there, in her strength, stood the peasant maiden, her heart full of trust and pity, her looks full of the power that is given by fearlessness of them that can kill the body.
The Czar gave orders for tree and peasant to be cut down; but both had spoken truly.
Not many years after there was a peasant rising, and it was rumored that their leader was Constantine.
The peasant did not take kindly to drill, nor did the soldier to the scythe.
If he hear a drunkenpeasant swear, he reports the existence of a revolutionary spirit; if he see a solitary deserter, he distorts him into a whole regiment.
Hereupon twelve pretty young peasant girls entered from a side-door, each with a lute in her hand, their faces expressing more repressed fear than pleasurable expectation.
I will write you a song which the peasant will not need to take first to the priest to have its meaning explained to him.
He received seven duros a month, which were all his means of supporting himself and his old mother, a common peasant woman, who had denied herself bread in order to give an education to her son.
Your other party came to the ford an hour before sunset,' the peasant answered, staring dully at us.
He obeyed, and plunging into the night, which in that pit; between the hills was of an inky darkness, presently returned with a peasant and a lanthorn.
When I came to announce this decision, however, and to inquire what accommodation the peasant could afford us, I found myself in trouble.
The simple Greek peasant thinks it his right to make aloud what observations he chooses upon any stranger, and has not the smallest idea of the politeness of reticence on such occasions.
He does not say as he looks on the peasant at his plough outside Batna: "Observe yon Semite!
An Irish peasant cutting his own head off by mistake—His reputed ghost—Humours of an Irish Wake—Natural deaths of the Irish peasantry—Reflections on the Excise laws.
An Irish peasant sees no harm in making whisky, and it's only human nature to resist when you are attacked; beside it was the Red Captain's gang that set them to fighting, no doubt.
Ralph now turned to the peasant who had saved his life by grappling with the Red Captain at the moment he was about to discharge his blunderbuss, and who had by his orders been left unbound.
Out into the field the peasant goes, And there the peasant sows his corn: “O God of might, what wondrous sight The Helm, the Helm has got a horn!
Now, however much a peasant may enjoy the confused splendours of Court life and of Courtly love, he cannot, with the best will in the world, restore their details or colouring if they happen to become obliterated.
This poem, of some fifty octaves, is the result of those Tuscan peasant songs, of which I have told you the curious Courtly descent, at last having struck the fancy of a real poet.
Was it indeed the son of a peasant whom you gave me for a father?
Now, as Ilya went on his way he saw a peasant walking heavily across a field, leading a shaggy brown foal, and, in spite of his manhood, this was the first foal that Ilya had ever seen.
Having a letter to a gentleman resident about two miles from Calais, I had occasion to inquire the way of a very pretty peasant girl whom I overtook on the road, just above the town.
As we passed several cottages by the road-side, we saw the peasant girls spinning; some of them were working in silk, others in cotton.
The peasant girls looking out of their windows, as they were going to bed, added much to our mirth; and more particularly, as our carriage was on a level with their windows.
Tell an English peasant that a Frenchman has neither glass to his windows, nor sheets to his bed, and he will conclude him to be miserable in the extreme.
The peasant girls were milking their cows and singing with their usual merriment.
On the great scale, perhaps, taste is better understood in England than in France, but as far as Nature leads, the sensibility of the French peasant gives him the advantage.
Some of the peasant girls, which came out to us with fruit, were very handsome, though brown.
The peasant women of France work so hard, as to lose every appearance of youth in the face, whilst they retain it in the person; and it is therefore no uncommon thing to see the person of a Venus, and the face of an old monkey.
Such was a peasant boy, now seemingly enveloped in the interesting simplicity of Marmontel.
The way was by a path over the fields: the young peasant was going to some house a mile or two beyond the object of my destination, and, as I have reason to believe, not exactly in the same line.
Whilst she was saying this, the latch of the door was raised, and a sturdy youngpeasant made his appearance; but seeing an unexpected company, drew back in some confusion.
We passed some very pretty peasant girls, dressed in bodices laced crossways with ribbon.
From Montelimart to where we slept, the name of which I have not noted, the country improved in beauty; but we passed many peasant women, who certainly were not so beautiful as the country.
