The step-dance is now gone, or all but gone, but was at one time much cultivated among the peasantry of the west of England.
SONGS OF THE WEST=; Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of Devon and Cornwall, with their Traditional Melodies, by REV.
There were, no doubt, among our peasantry dances in a ring about the May-pole, but this was exceptional.
In 1846 the Percy Society issued to its members a volume entitled Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, edited by Mr. J.
Ignorant and arrogant, this priest herded the superstitious peasantry to destruction.
They were a dirty, degraded lot, and we all of us remarked how distinctly inferior they were to the ordinary peasantry and townsmen we met.
The result of forty years' wastage of the Irish Catholic peasantry is that the proportions of Catholics to Protestants are now three to one, as against four to one in 1861.
We had not travelled far into Russia proper, before the difference in the condition of the peasantry there, and in Siberia, forced itself on our attention.
It was well for the thieves here that they worked and escaped in the night, for such desecration would have resulted in their quick dispatch had the superstitious peasantry caught them.
The skulls still to be seen here are regarded with deep veneration and are often borrowed by the peasantry to boil milk in, which being served to the sick one is a sure antidote for all ills.
The disciples of Wycliffe made their home among the peasantry and artisans of Mediaeval England.
It was the custom to keep a large whipping-top in each parish in the country parts for the peasantry to use in frosty weather to keep them warm with exercise.
There cannot be much harm in it, for in the north of Europe the peasantry boil its leaves, and eat them as greens.
On the Continent, however, the peasantry are wiser, and not only provide themselves with chestnuts for soap, but gather the beech-leaves to stuff their mattresses.
Conclusion--Acadia Then and Now The memory of the courageous heart-high peasantry that first peopled and made home of a wilderness, remains fresh in the present-day Acadia.
Among the peasantry he was amiable and straightforward; and he retained his popularity among the working classes to the end of his reign.
At the defile, where seven months later the peasantry assembled to liberate their captured King, the mother and son took leave of one another, never to meet again.
Preparations to Imprison the King--The Peasantry Assemble to his Rescue 244 XXXIX.
The Siberian peasantry appear to have a good ear for music, but their airs are nearly all in minor, and intensely depressing, after a time, to a European ear.
Men, women, and children, were working in the fields, and it seemed strange to a European eye to see the peasantry gathering the harvest and making hay at the same time.
Indeed, I doubt if the majority of the peasantry had ever heard of England.
Among the peasantry it is believed to bring dire misfortune on any one daring to call it by any other name.
Be it understood I am now talking of a particular class, for among the Siberian peasantry rudeness is very rare, and we met with nothing but hospitality and kindness.
Debarred from the support of the noble class, the Rumanian peasantry lost its state of autonomy, which changed into one of serfdom to the soil upon which they toiled.
Substantial relief from their burdens--the primary though negative condition of national revival--accrued to the Greek peasantry from the decay of Ottoman militarism in all its branches.
In both cases the situation of the peasantry became worse, and we have, curiously enough, the same social fact brought about by apparently contrary causes.
When after the foundation of the principalities the upper class was established on a feudal basis, the peasantry were subjected to constantly increasing burdens.
The social condition of the peasantry seems to have been better than it had been under Greek seigneurs, whether in Europe or in Asia, and better than it was at the moment in feudal Christendom.
Presently, her peasantry growing ever more restive, passed from protest to revolt against the Circassian refugee-colonists with whom the Porte was flooding the land.
Therefore Workers’ Control is demanded by the proletariat not only in their own interest, but in the interest of the whole country, and should be supported by the revolutionary peasantry as well as the revolutionary Army.
Poland' has been a byword, yet Poland is far less of a weakness to Russia than Ireland to us, and the Russians have now the Polish peasantry with them, if they have the towns and nobles against them.
Now the degeneratepeasantry of the district are much more inclined to ask than to give, and their blue eyes seem to have disappeared with their generosity.
In Ireland, good con-acres are looked on by the peasantry as a certain source of wealth; here they are considered as a main cause of their poverty.
Much of the poverty of the Irish peasantryhas been attributed to the con-acre system.
In those parts in which there are no resident gentry to employ them, to set them an example, and to enforce a respect for the laws, the peasantry indulge in idleness, and engage in politics.
There is a like emigration of the humbler class of peasantry from Sweden.
A noble was described by the peasantry at this time as 'a gentleman to the backbone;' a landed squire as 'a gentleman every inch of him.
He established a forty-shilling franchise which gave votes to the poorest, most ignorant, and most dependent peasantry in Europe.
It was the peasantry also who took Vereïa, a town in the neighbourhood of Moscow.
ShaaEuro~rAinA- contrasts the miserable lot of the peasantry under the new rA(C)gime with their comparative prosperity under the Mamelukes.
The peasantry of aEuro~IrAiq were impoverished by the desolation into which that flourishing province was beginning to fall in consequence of the frequent and prolonged civil wars.
Our ancestors may be said to have led us on to this proud position, by the gradual emancipation of the peasantry from slavery.
Apart from the poor-law system, the actual feudal serfdom, which gave landowners great powers over the peasantry on their estates, was not abolished until the reign of Charles II.
But the English peasantry and artisans had now acquired too much real independence to submit silently to these arbitrary regulations.
For two or three centuries after the Conquest, there is no doubt that the peasantry were liable to be bought and sold as slaves.
Every officer is paid by grants of land, or by a power to receive from the peasantry a certain proportion of the produce of certain villages or districts.
Every village has its priest, who depends upon the contributions of the peasantry for his support, receiving so much rice or pári as his salary.
The peasantry of Java, easily procuring the necessaries of life, seldom aim at improvement of their condition.
In the peasantry we observe all that is simple, natural, and ingenuous: in the higher orders we sometimes discover violence, deceit, and gross sensuality.
If it is not in the nature of things that peasants should be gentle and happy, then the imagination of such peasantry is ridiculous, and to delight in such imagination wrong; as delight in any kind of falsehood is always.
In flat land, with fresh air, the peasantry may be almost mindless, but not infected with this gloom.
The ignorant peasantry and the lowest classes in the towns at last rise and expel them.
This was to show the misguided peasantry of what the gunboat was capable, if action were necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peasantry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: commoner; laborer; peasantry; populace; proletariat; rabble; shopkeeper; toiler
