The room was full of weeping servants and peasants who had come to bid farewell to their late mistress.
Many peasants who had applied for and obtained guns, knives, and other weapons from the Laguna armoury were sent off to defend the northern part of the island.
No dye was prepared on the islands, and the peasants looked upon it as a manner of mystery.
Consequently thepeasants smoke tobacco from the Azores.
One division of forty peasants was placed under the Marquess del Prado and the Viscount de Buenpaso, who both, though not military men, hastened to the town when the attack was no longer doubtful.
Then I've sent Tützi out to forage and pick up a small child or two, but thepeasants round here are so selfish and unneighbourly that they never give him the chance--actually shutting all the children up indoors!
You see, the peasants about here think anything under a purse of gold stingy.
As in certain districts of Italy the peasants plant a row of trees on the birth of every son, so among nations it is necessary to increase the national wealth at least in proportion to the newly arrived.
Ceased is the stimulus of individual interest; few work; the peasants work only to produce what their families need; the workers in the city are chiefly engaged in meetings and political reunions.
He tells us that his "ancestors were peasants and he was born a peasant.
That is why Millet's simple peasants and Corot's misty landscapes were not appreciated.
It was the custom in France among the peasants to take a daily hour of rest from their labors.
The peasants came to Seville from all the country around, bringing in their fruits, vegetables, and wares to sell.
How early do the French peasants usually start to work?
Jean Francois Millet was the son of poor French peasants who lived on a farm and worked hard to take care of their large family of eight children.
We talk about the peasants drinking; I don't know which drinks most, the peasantry or our own class; the peasants do on holidays, but.
The peasantswould not give that price, and, as Levin suspected, kept off other purchasers.
Levin knew that when he got home he must first of all go to his wife, who was unwell, and that the peasants who had been waiting for three hours to see him could wait a little longer.
There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
The counting house clerk was just going to jump down, but on second thoughts he shouted peremptorily to the peasants instead, and beckoned to them to come up.
Moreover the same peasants kept putting off, on various excuses, the building of a cattleyard and barn on the land as agreed upon, and delayed doing it till the winter.
The peasants gathered into groups--those further away under a cart, those nearer under a willow bush.
It was delightfully cool next morning when a touring car took them to what seemed a village of booths or stalls, presided over by gypsies, peasants and Jews.
They passed wayside crosses also, before some of which peasants were kneeling in prayer.
From it they could see numerous carts approaching, some of them drawn by buffaloes, with peasants seated on the front rails.
This afternoon we took a long drive, returning through the town, so I had a fine chance to see the peasants in gala array.
Near a wayside shrine (one finds them everywhere here) we came upon a crowd of youngpeasants sitting on the stone wall, or leaning lazily against it smoking meerschaum pipes.
On every hand were the charred remains of the hovels of the peasants and the palaces of the nobility.
All classes, nobles and peasants alike, bound themselves by a solemn covenant to resist to the very last every attempt to make innovations in their religion.
The peasants who follow this pursuit in the alpine regions of Spain become fearless climbers: with their feet clad in alparagatas, or hemp-soled sandals, they traverse ridges and descend crags where nail-shod guide would falter.
A happy lot, these Gallegans, happy in the possession of content, happier far than their more impulsive brethren, the socialistic peasants of Andalucia, of whom we have just spoken.
Despite their industry there is, nevertheless, woful poverty amid the peasantsof Nevada.
It was after dark when we reached a miserable wayside venta, where, alongside half a dozen snoring peasants and tormented by a million fleas, we passed the night on the ground.
During these six years father and daughter had lived frugally, almost as the peasants lived; yet with a daintiness, an order, which were unknown to the peasants.
The point where the path is narrowest, the peasants have called the "Pike.
In that, the famous Clare election is treated with true historic discrimination by the writer, who compares the bravery of the Clare peasants at Ennis to the gallant Covenanters standing up against Claverhouse's Dragoons at Bothwell Bridge.
The peasants still inherit some of the awe with which the sacred tree was held in former days, and they are loth to hurt it with the loss of a single leaf.
Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of chestnut, Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries.
Then followed that beautiful season, Called by the pious Acadian peasants the Summer of All-Saints!
Attempts to improve the condition of peasants were numerous and in some respects successful, but found an obstacle on the one hand in the attitude of the Government and on the other in the conservatism and suspicion of the peasants themselves.
This kind of labor was already available, because peasantswere unable to derive sufficient income from their own land to pay the heavy taxes and to support their families.
Yet even so the Conservatives had quite a following among the peasants up to the time of the revolution of 1917 and in a way may still have a future before them.
In fact the Social-Democrats have not taken the trouble to acquaint the peasants with the principles of their teaching, leaving that field almost entirely to the influence of socialist-revolutionists.
Under this system the peasants will get all land available, but 90 per cent will have to pay for what is owned by a small fraction of even the remaining 10 per cent of the entire population.
The work of supervision was only too often intrusted to utterly unscrupulous and uneducated managers belonging to the peasant class, while the neighboring peasantswere employed as day laborers in the field and garden.
It was more difficult to organize the peasants scattered through the country, and not concentrated in barracks or factories.
The objection raised was on the ground that peasants suddenly possessed of a chance to get ready money would sell their land to a few exploiters and being unable to put it to good use would rapidly become paupers.
Trotzky's assertion that the Workmen's and Soldiers' Government is a government of workingmen, soldiers, and peasants is therefore nothing but a perversion of facts.
In many parts of these countries, the peasants and the workmen of the towns attend regular weekly lectures or weekly classes, where they practice singing or chanting, or learn mechanical drawing, history, or science.
Yet these tribes are surrounded by the same nature as our peasants are; but in still more impressive forms; and they are, moreover, obliged to particularize many more of them.
One sultry afternoon there were many peasants gleaning in the field.
Each year at harvest time she invited the poor peasants of the neighbourhood to come and glean in her field, and take home with them as much grain as they needed for winter use.
THE SCARF OF THE LADY (A French Harvest Legend) Translated by Hermine de Nagy The Field of the Lady was the name which the peasants gave to a large tract of land belonging to a rich estate.
Truly, we shall have a mean opinion of thy merit, if thou art afraid to meet a few Vaudois peasants in thy trade,--and thou a buffoon of Napoli!
The peasants in the adjoining fields rested on their utensils of husbandry, in gaping, admiring attention to the preparations of their superiors.
Once or twice a cartload of peasants scowled savagely at us as we rushed past on our headlong career, and at length I had the satisfaction of hearing Miss Randolph rather stiffly suggest that Jimmy should moderate the pace.
They were so beautiful that they were more like stage peasants than real ones.
As it was we had scowls from dark-browed men whose horses took fright at us, but no such encounter as we had with the peasants in France.
He is regarded by the peasants as quite a modern person, whom you may meet in a dark night, if you haven't murmured a prayer before the lovely white virgin in her illuminated grotto of rock.
At this moment a two-wheeled cart with five peasants in it--three men and two women--came in sight.
But I begin to hope that, after all, those peasants decided to let well alone, and that we shall escape scatheless.
When shall we be sure what the peasantshave made up their minds to do?
She who had been so brave when forty peasants threatened us with words, stones, and even knives, was crushed under the vague menace of the law.
I proudly smiled and bowed to the peasants in their orchards by the roadsides.
Those peasantsgave way like wheat before the scythe.
Now we know a little of what it costs the peasants to produce that which we waste in idleness while they live in poverty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peasants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
