Most of them are serfs of the nayrs, to whom the king of the country gives them, in order that their masters may be supported by their labour, and these protect and shew favour to these slaves.
Frequently the baron would cause some of his serfs to learn the mechanical arts, so that the several labours of the carpenter, the armourer, the tailor, &c.
They were in a great measure serfs and bondsmen, transmitted with the estates from proprietor to proprietor, like the chattels and the live stock.
Serfs and mercenaries are ruled by laws which are not from God, but which they made themselves; some because they do not love God, others because they love the things of this world better than God.
Nearly a third of the population of the world were its serfs and debtors from the cradle to the grave.
For it must be remembered that Europe, like India, is built upon conquest, and the earlier populations were reduced to the condition of slaves and serfs to the conquering races.
Now, suppose that the millions of the serfs of Russia had been chiefly in the South of Russia.
We hear of the nobles of Russia, to whom those serfs belonged in a great measure, that they have been hostile to this change; and there has been some danger that the peace of that empire might be disturbed during the change.
Now she spoke as her forefathers, serfs born to the plough and bound to the soil, must have spoken to their lords and owners.
Nor are all their serfs such wretches as those we saw.
Thy serfs pine for food: never yet did these; who have no thoughts, no cares.
These serfsare happier than thine; though thine, no collars wear; more happy as they are, than if free.
And were these serfs to rise, and fight for it; like dogs, they would be hunted down by her pretended sons!
Yoomy: so far as feeling goes, your sympathies are not more hot than mine; but for these serfs you would cross spears; yet, I would not.
This one lord would inherit the vast Bialystok estates, the splendid castle and its treasures, yet what if all this would not save him and his descendants from becoming serfs in the end.
What was he to do, he asked, to stay the operation of the curse and prevent his son and his grandsons from becoming the lowliest serfs in the Russian Empire?
To whatever extremities his son and his grandsons might be reduced, they would never be obliged to do the labour of serfs so long as they had a million to their credit at the Bank of England.
Lobkovic's advice as to the treatment of serfs is very interesting, as having been written only a few years after the Diet of Bohemia had in 1487 established serfdom, which was contrary to the original customs of Bohemia.
His civil reforms include the abolition of the system of prepaying taxes which had weighed heavily upon the wealthier proprietors, the elevation of the serfs into a class of free tenants, the remodelling of family and of maritime law.
Un homme d'etat russe (1884) gave the history of the emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II.
In the 4th century, however, Philippus of Theangela in south Caria describes Leleges still surviving as serfs of the true Carians, and Strabo, in the 1st century B.
Plutarch also implies the historic existence of Lelegian serfs at Tralles in the interior.
They were in power supreme and absolute, and they lived in ease and plenty upon the toil of native serfs and bondsmen.
There was but one Siberian proprietor of serfs in existence at the time of the emancipation.
The emancipation of the serfs in Russia was probably brought about by the marked superiority of the Siberian population in prosperity and intelligence.
The owner of serfs had rarely any common interest with his people, and his chief business was to make the most out of his human property.
The design of the system was no doubt to enable proprietors to rid themselves of serfs who were idle, dissolute, or quarrelsome, but had not committed any act the law could touch.
This was Mr. Rodinkoff of Krasnoyarsk, whose grandfather received a grant of serfs and a patent of nobility from the empress Catherine.
The younger sons of the nobility descended into this middle class, and the transformation of the serfs into a wage-earning class enabled some of them to rise into it.
The emancipation of the serfs has given a blow to these millennial dreams, and consequently to the more advanced sects of the Raskol: its ruin will be completed by education and material improvement.
This nation of serfs dimly felt the Raskol to be an assertion of religious liberty and self-respect against master, Church and government; and these were symbolized by the beard and the peculiar sign of the cross.
The whole body of villeins and serfs were under absolute dominion of the feudal lords.
She was entitled "The Elder" yet in defiance of that God to whom the serfs under church teaching ascribed all their wrongs, she was also called "The Devil's bride.
At that period the feudal wife with her retinue of household serfs and a vast number of her husband's retainers in charge, held a more responsible position than that of woman under primitive christian habits of life.
Under feudalism, the property, family ties, and even the lives of the serfs were under control of the suzerain.
But it was not upon the male serfs that the greatest oppression fell.
The thirteenth century was about the central period of this rebellion of the serfs against God and the church when they drank each other's blood as a sacrament, while secretly speaking of their oppression.
The state of the slave women of the South was that of serfs of the body under feudalism, or of the serf peasant women of Russia.
She speaks of polygamous wives as half-clad, poorly fed, toiling like serfs without hope under the chains of a religious despotism.
By the side of the former serfseven the state peasants appear as an “upper class.
This group was formed from the serfs who had belonged to petty gentlemen; this small class of serfs was reduced in 1861 from private serfdom to state serfdom, or, as it was called, to the class of state peasants.
The community of former serfs of Mr. Balk, village and bailiwick Karpofka, district of Ranenburg: The arrears amount to 67.
Attention has been called in Russian economic literature to the tendency toward private property developing among the former serfs out of the redemption of their plots.
On the other hand, by imposing the poll tax upon peasants, and by making the landholder responsible for the exact payment of this tax, he put slaves and serfs upon a common footing, and made the latter personally dependent upon the landlord.
To secure to the landlords an abundant supply of farm hands, the emigration of the former serfs to districts where there was plenty of vacant land was so throttled with red tape that it was practically equivalent to prohibition.
One of the main features of the period was the system of repartmientos and encomiendas under which the Indians were portioned out as serfs to the Spanish colonists.
Exceeding brutality marked this system of slavery; and at an early date it became necessary to abolish the practice of branding the unfortunate serfs with hot irons, like cattle!
Though there may have been much Welsh blood left, it ran in the veins of serfs and rent-paying churls, who were of no political or social importance.
Only a few words of Welsh origin relating to agriculture, household service, and smithcraft, were introduced by the serfsinto the tongue of their masters.
The English degraded their Celtic serfs to their own barbaric level; and the very memory of Roman civilization almost died out of the land for a hundred and fifty years.
The Welsh serfs had preserved some traditional knowledge of Roman agriculture; Kent had kept up some intercourse with the Continent; and even in York, Eadwine affected a certain imitation of Roman pomp.
We learn from Domesday Book that at the date of the Norman conquest the number of serfs was greater from east to west, and largest on the Welsh border.
The Celtic serfs and their descendants quickly assumed English names, talked English to one another, and soon forgot, in a few generations, that they had not always been Englishmen in blood and tongue.
Many nobles emancipated their serfs upon their following them in this expedition.
The king's grant and letters, the Parliament answered with perfect truth, were legally null and void: their serfs were their goods, and the king could not take their goods from them but by their own consent.
Ilia Ivanovitch never opposed the free choice of his serfs in matrimony, a rare tolerance at that time.
They have ceased to be the prisoners of society--the satisfied serfs of husbands or the echoes of priests.
It is an unjust religion which seeks to make women serfs and men tyrants.
There is no denying the fact that no one even thought of the so-called problem of the serfs at that epoch; and it could not disturb Alexyéi Sergyéitch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serfs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
