Before going to the galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me.
She whom you have called your friend, will be, hereafter, only a poor peasant girl, as her mother was before her.
I am only a poor peasant, but never would I lie down in the dust before any man as these old nobles who are so haughty with us, did before the duke.
Lacheneur had been reared like other poor peasant girls; that is to say, on the day of her marriage it was only with great difficulty she succeeded in inscribing her name upon the register.
Illustration: {Once upon a time a poor peasant, named Crabb, was taking a load of wood drawn by two oxen to the town for sale.
Doctor Know-All Once upon a time a poor Peasant, named Crabb, was taking a load of wood drawn by two oxen to the town for sale.
Tears come to my eyes when I think that a poor peasant's son has got so much book-learning, especially as we aren't tenants of the university.
That is just what has happened in this case to make his gracious lordship think that he is a poor peasant.
If such services deserved a recompense, were they not amply rewarded by the kindness of Teresa, who had carried that so far as to permit the humble page, the son of a poor peasant, to treat her as her equal?
And why, Guillen," asked Teresa, "why would you be more happy if I were a poor peasant girl?
As for my relation to my masters I have always regarded humility as the first duty of a Christian, above all when that Christian is a poor peasant, as I am, and as you are.
But how could he suppose that a young girl of eighteen, the daughter of the Marquis de Souday, would leave her home at eight o'clock at night and go five miles to nurse a poor peasant ill of a dangerous fever?
You said your prayer beside that poor peasant, and I want to say mine.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor peasant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
