It is the time of drought, and the peons are firing the grass to improve the land," said Carmen.
In less than two minutes afterwards there was a shout, and one of the peons drew forth from the thatch a piece of rag evidently containing rupees.
Even without a weapon of any kind, manacled and pinioned, the peons shrank from him, and actually seemed afraid to touch him, so well were his strength and ferocity known.
The peonshad accurately noted the time when they found him all but insensible from drink, viz.
Don Hernando has already authorized the captain to enlist his miners, and the peons left him he will need to defend the hacienda in the event of an attack.
At the sound of the chapel bell all the peons and vaqueros retired to their jacales in order to sleep.
Paredes, you will at once mount your horse, and order all the peons and vaqueros to bring the ganado and horses into the hacienda.
Do you fancy," he replied, "that it is so very pleasant to be stared at by those semi-idiotic peons for performing so simple a deed as mine was?
Dona Marianna was conveyed to her apartments, and the peons were dismissed after the majordomo had, by the order of the Marquis, distributed among them pesetas and tragos of refino, which set the crown of the delight of these worthy fellows.
On the next morning, by the orders of the Marquis, the majordomo selected ten confidential rancheros and peons from those who had sought shelter at the hacienda, and the work commenced at once.
How many peonshave you under your orders, Paredes?
Don Ruiz went out on horseback in the morning with Jose Paredes, in order to watch the peons and vaqueros, leaving to his father and sister the care of doing the honours to Don Rufino.
Our poor brave peons were killed while defending us; and my sister's horse, struck by a bullet in the head, threw her.
I do not know this country: one of the two peons who accompanied me acted as guide; and now he is dead, it is utterly impossible for me to find my way.
It's a bit wabbly for founding a government on, but doubtless represents very accurately the dreams of the pelados (skinned ones), as the peons are called.
Peons almost never sing, but a wheezy organ was playing, and the priest, whom I could just see, was giving the blessing after Mass.
Don Benjamin Butler gave his touching story of one of his peons coming to him with a piece of paper and asking what it said.
One of the smugglers had his arm broken by a bullet, and was suffering atrocious pain; a lancero had a contusion on the head, and two peons were wounded in the legs.
The peons accompanying the general, on seeing their master in so pitiable a state, unloaded the baggage and carried it into the casa.
To meet the economic needs of the industrial world, it makes little difference whether peons are enslaved by Mexican, American or English capitalists, so long as the output is the same.
I have not heard that 'white' peons are so aesthetic.
A group of ill-looking peonsoccupied this shed when Oversluys arrived.
As the little party filed off, one of the peons shouted, 'A good night, macho!
Santa Anna and his generals, feeling that their prey could not escape from the trap, and caring little for the peons who had been slain, were making a festival.
The door of the room was unlocked and the two peons who had guarded him upon the roof came for him.
At last Stephenson's party of miners arrived from England, but they gave him even more trouble than the peons had done.
The native peons or laborers were not accustomed to work, and they usually contrived to desert when they were not watched, so that very little progress could be made until the arrival of the expected band of miners from England.
His little household, re-enforced by his cousin Cecily and three peons picked up at Los Pinos, bore their transplantation with a singular equanimity that seemed to him unaccountable.
But we'll find servants enough in the neighborhood--Mexican peons and Indians, you know.
Their hands could no longer push down the ladders weighted with the struggling peons goaded forward by the swords of their officers.
The peonsof Santa Anna's worthless army came on day after day, the bands playing the Dequelo, which meant "no quarter.
To this commercial centre (centro do commercio) we were advised to go, and there I rode, leaving my partner with the peons riding round the caballada upon the plains.
We paid our peons off, got our clothes washed, rested, and then found time at first hang heavy on our hands.
Don Jose Lopez, that was his name, said that I need not do much actual work, as he would have his peons attend to the care of the mules and have them harness up as well.
None knew how these isolated subjects of a decadent empire labored through the long, hard years, mingling their own sweat with that of the peons to build this impregnable defense.
In the quarries 3 leagues from the presidio, Indian peons chopped out the dense thickets of scrub oak and palmetto, driving out the rattlesnakes and clearing the ground for the shovelers to uncover the top layer of coquina.
In addition to Indian labor, there were a few Spanish peons who were paid 4 reales per day, a few of the Crown's Negro slaves, and a number of convicts, either from the local presidio or sent from Caribbean ports.
Diaz watched his peons heave the finest stone on the wagons.
A smallpox epidemic made Indian labor out of the question, so there were no peons to bear heavy timbers on their shoulders from the forests.
The Indian peons were furnished rations of maize both while they were in St. Augustine and for their journey over the wilderness trails to their homes, and certain of the convicts were also given a ration of Indian corn.
As a result, the peons could not bring in materials.
There were serious domestic problems, for these peons had the choice of bringing their families with them or leaving the women and children in the home villages to eke out their own living.
At San Agustin bastion on the southeastern corner the peons dumped hundreds of baskets of sand and rubble between the enclosing walls to fill them up to the 25-foot level.
Then in the spring of 1675 another provision ship was lost and Ponce was forced to take all the peons from work on the castillo for the long march to Apalache, where he hoped to get provisions from the Indians.
Cries of awe arose from scores of throats and to a man the peons threw themselves flat on their faces, hardly daring to look at the terrifying spectacle.
And no wonder these ignorant peonscall our little monoplane a 'devil-bird.
Nothing on earth could tempt one of my peonsto accompany an expedition thither.
In Colima they say the rurales will finish off the peons quickly," said Vicente.
Just peons with guns," said Angelina, wishing she could forget.
I hear that the peons are quitting, are in revolt," she said, when they were alone in the dining room.
Everything had gone well with those captains and peons whom they had left behind, and now every preparation was made to descend the stream with all possible speed, consonant with safety.
But peons or paddlers to the number of two or four to each large canoe their several captains insisted on having.
He had lived under this whip of air and sky for three years, alone in a Spanish rancho, with only the native peons around him, and scarcely speaking his own tongue even to his guardian.
They had brought him to the carcel, or dungeon, of the hacienda, where peons were constrained to docility.
Here the administrador was watching the clerks who sold and the peons who bought.
He heard the peons acclaim him, as gradually they began to understand that there was to be no more unhappiness.
Under their leaves, curving high above his head, he watched peons with gourds suck out the honey water from the onion-like bulbs into goatskin bags.
So much, that what with freeingpeons and confiscating nationalized church lands and giving them back to the church--well, a very little more might decide between Empire and Republic.
Flames began to crackle, and in the glare Murguía was seen frantically driving burros and peons to safety.
But the one word of address gave the peons a dignity they had never suspected.
Peons and their women rushed from house to house, distracted with fear.
They were the most wretchedly poorpeons that I have ever seen--about half of them didn't have serapes.
Little knots of peons were gathered in front of the hacienda, pointing and looking east.
In the big ribota court the peons were playing hand ball.
The peons had squatted out of the range of fire, so that just their eyes showed above the window-sills, where they watched proceedings with joyous interest.
Then a little one-armed dwarf sprang out of the crowd of peons and began to dance.
They were simply peons who had risen in arms, like my friends of La Tropa--a tough, happy race of mountaineers and cowboys, among whom were many who had been bandits in the old days.
I got up beside Patricio, the peons let go of the mules' heads, and the long whip curled around their bellies.
At one we forced our way through a mob of women and peons fighting to get out.
Don Priciliano is a fine-looking, white-haired old Castilian who used to lend money to the peons at twenty per cent.
And when I thought that all was lost, and marveled at the useless heroism of these peons who walked up a hill in the face of artillery, behold!
The peons looked at each other and grinned feebly.
A delegation of threepeons in sandals arrived from a village in the Tarahumare to protest against the Counterfeit Decree.
Like the peons of Mexico, they're all primed and ready to shout for any leader who sets himself up.
I envisaged this chaotic nation, with its toilers ignorant as the oppressed Mexican peons at their worst.
They are the aristocrats of the camp, and as they roam bazaars and streets or promenade the sea-front they are admired by coolies and peons as bull-fighters would be in Spain.
I purchased two great sackfuls of oysters, a thousand in number, which were brought off to the government tug Active by salaaming peons from the government agent's office.
When I received your letter, telling me to come to town, the peons came crowding to the estancia to know if the Goths had landed.
Among these men, peons or small proprietors, Don Gregorio Lopez proposed to raise a squadron of cavalry, and Marcelino Ponce de Leon proposed to help him in his work by instilling into them the first principles of patriotism.
Shopmen, artificers, and peonsleft their homes all with one destination.
He came in with a party of peons all armed to the teeth, as soon as he heard that the English had landed.
Don Gregorio and Gordon set off at the same time, attended by peons driving a tropilla before them, and reached the Guardia Chascomus before midday.
Don Martin Rodriguez is also raising a regiment of hussars at his own expense among the peons and quinteros in the suburbs.
The estanciero pressed him to remain, and at once sent some peons to slaughter a cow for his men.
But on my estancia I have peons, and my peons will be soldiers the day I want them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
