Peasants

Examples

• You murderer of peasants. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• One knight--ay, one man-at-arms, were enough for twenty such peasants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Remember that we are not talking of peasants keeping holiday, but of a State in which every man is expected to do his own work. Plato. The Republic.
• He looked at the double line of peasants and he spat on the ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The peasants all called you Don and when you met them they took off their hats. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It is full time, said De Bracy, that the 'outrecuidance' [19] of these peasants should be restrained by some striking example. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They _were_ peasants and workers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His father hunted every day and stopped to eat at the houses of peasants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The Italian peasants believe that this disease can only be cured by a certain kind of music. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At first, this was probably in part a town-slave class, in part it consisted of peasants who had specialized upon a craft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was no killing, you understand; but sometimes the peasants objected to be robbed, so there was often a fight, ending in broken heads. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He is still remembered in South Italy almost as vividly as is Napoleon I by the peasants of France; he is the Gran Federigo. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The peasants stayed and took the punishment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was hard by the fountain, and the peasants suspended their operations to look at him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Two peasants from the lines walked over, talking together, and one of them called to me, 'What passes with thee, Pilar? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Noteworthy among the contributors were the Emperor of Brazil, the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, and the peasants of Alsace. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Ireland had become a land of peasants, blankly ignorant and helplessly priest-ridden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He tried to make a caste of the peasants and small cultivators, and to restrict them from moving from their holdings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Close upon these disturbances, and probably connected with them, came a widespread peasants' revolt throughout Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is the land there owned by the peasants? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Kings and princes are supposed to be placed at the top of human affairs; as peasants and day-labourers are said to be in the lowest stations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To begin with, perhaps, he just let his voice loose as one may hear Italian peasants now behind their ploughs singing songs without words. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The peasants' carts did not help much either. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Peasants, sailors, Turkish scamps, and stupid islanders. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We are not peasants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He doesn't want to see peasants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Editor: Natasha