How To Use Peasantry In A Sentence
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Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
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In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
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The remainder was the rural and generally poor peasantry.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
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The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
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Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
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After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
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Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
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Cumberland curs burst out from backs of cottages and barked like other curs, and the Cumberland peasantry stared after the dog-cart amazedly, as long as it was in sight, like the rest of their race.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry.
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In some languages the speaker thinks of himself and his completed action as inseparable, as a single idea, as the Latin _edi_ for I have eaten; in others he thinks of himself subconsciously as possessing the results of his action, as our _I have eaten_; and in others, as among the Irish peasantry, he separates himself and his action entirely, as _I am after eating_.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
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The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
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The peasantry prospered by clearing land until the mid-ninth century, when it began to lose ground to its aristocratic neighbours, as land sales show.
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Here in Linovia they were in Swedish dominions, but there was little to be purchased, for the peasantry had been brought to ruin by the foraging parties of the Russians and Poles.
A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
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For the peasantry in particular, the periods of English occupation must have been horrific.
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West of Scotland supplied with work by a benevolent aristocrat, his expectation that a grateful peasantry will bless their benefactor is rudely dashed (II, 32).
Notes on 'Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism'
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The small peasantry sells or exchanges over ten per cent of their labour expended in agriculture.
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The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions.
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The peasantry in 1300 were living in a world where land was scarce and opportunities for economic advancement were limited by the tight controls of the landowners.
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Others look to the peasantry to form armed bands which can take land from the big landlords and distribute it to the poor.
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If the peasantry ever found out, they'd eat him alive, and strew what remained of his mangled pride across the four corners of the kingdom.
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In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry.
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It took no great discernment to recognise that something needed to be done to help the peasantry.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The distribution of land to the peasantry after World War I was reversed under the Soviet occupation as land was collectivized and put under the control of the state.
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New merchant and professional classes arose and a proletariat developed out of the peasantry.
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It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries.
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The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
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No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other.
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Ninety per cent of the peasantry was stuck in a serfdom that offered few ways out.
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= Coarse cloth of linen and wool used as skirtings by the British peasantry.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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They understand that it would be of no avail to appeal to an ignorant and bigotedly loyal peasantry on the grounds of political emancipation.
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Clinton reassured Cornwallis that he faced only 2000 regular Continentals, plus a small body of ill-armed "spiritless" "peasantry".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small businessman is diminishing in numbers.
The Lion and the Unicorn
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Although they did not deny the legality of seignorial property outright, the Physiocrats undercut its legitimacy by representing seignorial rights as the product of the lords 'historic violence and tyranny over the peasantry.
Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
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The immense social divide between the haves and have-nots in Peru, between the predominantly urban white bourgeoisie and the mainly "cholo" and Indian working class and peasantry, has not changed.
Undefined
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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. Leo Tolstoy
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According to the historian, cattle maiming fell into the category of ‘an historical outrage’ because the peasantry had for centuries regarded cattle as their enemy owing to clearances designed to make way for pasturage.
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She threw herself into the work with her customary enthusiasm, undertaking to make more welfare reach the peasantry.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage.
The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church
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Nearly all of the peasantry was stuck in a serfdom that offered few ways out.
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There was one fire larger than the rest; from its dimensions, it might be termed a "bonfire," such as is made by the flattering and flunkeyish peasantry of old-world lands, when they welcome home the squire and the count.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Now the peasantry is being transformed everywhere into proletarians and the middle classes in the advanced capitalist countries are likewise being turned into wage workers.
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What is your program for the improvement of the lot of the peasantry?
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Their children attend private academies and may occasionally speak to one of the Peasantry as the latter mows the grass or cleans the house.
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When we turn to the artisans and the peasantry of France, a different story emerges.
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Can we sharpen the causal interrelations among population, money stock, commercialization, climatic change, food production, and the material well-being of the Chinese peasantry?
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The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
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His abhorrence for these brands of nationalism can be extrapolated from his attitude toward the peasantry.
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The First Consul also made ruthless use of the executive clauses of the Organic Articles to remove Bourbonist bishops and to turn the ordinary clergy into State stipendiaries and educationalists; he was to find the pulpit a most useful means of disseminating propaganda to the peasantry in the years that followed.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry.
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The great buffet running the length of the hall stood out with all it's color against the various grays, browns, and blacks that the peasantry so commonly wore.
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The Monarchy did not at once learn its lesson, and little was done to relieve the plight of the peasantry.
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A generic peasantry living in symbiosis with the land, trapped in unchanging landscapes, helped to convey this message.
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To the credit of the class, however, to which they belong, such persons are not so numerous as formerly, and to the still greater honor of the peasantry be it said, the devil himself is not hated with half the detestation which is borne them.
Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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* Antitrinitarians; the peasantry are often extremely fond of hard and long words, which they call tall English.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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The remainder was the rural and generally poor peasantry.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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The zombies' appearance, dressed in ragged brown robes, suggests a link with medieval peasantry.
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I cannot therefore present a broad set of types of peasantry as I did for aristocracies, for the problems of typicality are that much greater.
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In the mid 19th century, after the peasantry had been affranchised, a model of Heinrichshof was built by the Duke on his fields.
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In Dr.G. Lammert's "Volksmedizin in Bayern" (Würzburg, 1869), many hemostatic formulas are given, which are popular among the peasantry in various portions of the empire.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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The whole leadership was devoted to this war on the peasantry.
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The vast mass of peasantry could be neutralized by promising land reforms.
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Marx himself distinguishes between the proletariat - what most people today think of as the working class - and what he calls the petit-bourgeoisie - including the peasantry, artisans, and various entepreneurs.
Internet Anarchist Revision Brigade: how Burt Green tried to write about statist anti-imperialism and blocked his sink with tea leaves
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One Scotchman was claiming that the peasantry of Scotland pronounced it three, his adversaries claimed that they didn't -- that they pronounced it 'thraw'.
Following the Equator
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These arrangements entrenched a distinctive land-owning pattern among the peasantry and perpetuated the peasantry's distance from other social estates.
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But behind them, and I should say in unpleasant proximity (for the peasantry do not carry handkerchiefs scented with White Rose or Jockey Club, -- only the odor of the peat and the bogwood), surged a vast crowd of men and women, on whose lips and in whose hearts was a prayer for her who was entering on the momentous change in her sweet and tranquil life.
My New Curate
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But the creature escapes, destroys the livestock of the local peasantry, and must be shot.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They were outnumbered hugely both by the gentry classes above them, and by the general peasantry below.
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The prolonged suffering of the Irish peasantry had broken the survivors in body and spirit.
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Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
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The friars seemed long since to have forgotten those noble aims that had meant so much to the founders and early workers of their orders, if indeed the great majority of those of the later day had ever realized the meaning of their office, for the Spanish writers of the time delight in characterizing them as the meanest of the Spanish peasantry, when not something worse, who had been "lassoed," taught a few ritualistic prayers, and shipped to the Philippines to be placed in isolated towns as lords and masters of the native population, with all the power and prestige over a docile people that the sacredness of their holy office gave them.
The Social Cancer
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The peasantry were being drawn into the money economy, thereby raising consumer demand.
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Although a majority of Italians were peasants, Italian nationalism had been remarkably inattentive to the peasantry.
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The Times proclaimed that the prime cause why the Irish peasantry have been reduced to their present level must be sought for in the neglect and unthrift of past generations of claret - drinking, writ-despising, landlords. 15
Ed Lengel: "A 'Perverse and Ill-Fated People'"
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On a blustery recent morning, some of the local peasantry dismissed the antimonarchist grumbling and said they will be watching the wedding on TV.
No Titles, No Subjects, No Problem: Germans Join Royal Wedding Craze
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In the development of the revolutionary struggle against tsarism, what would be the relationship between the major classes opposed to tsarism - the bourgeoisie, peasantry and working class?
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After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate.
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An urban insurrection in Jerusalem was followed by a general uprising of the Jewish peasantry.
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Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff -- the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance.
III.6
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The Barbadian of November 21, speaks of a "megass house" set on fire in this island which the peasantry refused to extinguish, and adds that but half work is performed by the laborer in that parish.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Food was forcibly taken from the peasantry for ridiculously low prices.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The commune was doomed by the spread of market relations and the peasantry were becoming divided between capitalists and propertyless rural labourers.
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The Parliament of landlords which took over politics in 1640 was not interested in preserving a peasantry engaged in subsistence production.
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Shinto, and also in many Buddhist, temple grounds, is planted the tree called enoki [7] which is sacred to him, and in which he is supposed by the peasantry to dwell; for they pray before the enoki always to Kojin.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
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Elsewhere populism drew upon a peasantry tied to the land as part of the ownership by an aristocracy or local grandees of large estates, as in tsarist Russia and even today in South America and India.
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This only served to exacerbate landlordism, the impoverishment of the peasantry and the deep-seated hostility to the British occupation.
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At its centre stood the peasant commune, they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.
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Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.
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the landless peasantry
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The commitment to the commune, as the best means of taxing and policing the peasantry, was repeatedly reaffirmed.
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Not even the peasantry escaped, as was well appreciated by those who sang the popular lament, ‘Song of the Husbandman’, in Edward I's reign.
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The peasantry is the firm ally of the proletariat.
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They could not see behind them a miserable peasantry breeding itself down to the basest subsistence; a miserable urban proletariat deteriorating physically and morally; they could not estimate the mutterings of revolt in all their sweated and driven industrial centres; they could not understand the protests of their own fine and growing intelligentzia.
The Shape of Things to Come
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Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse.
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The staunch ally of the proletariat is the peasantry, and next comes the urban petty bourgeoisie.
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Among the peasantry, household property included tools, clothes, and domestic items, while arable, pasture, and forest lands were held in common by the village and regularly repartitioned to provide adequate land for each family.
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There was also a return to traditional family values among the new Soviet elite, "most of whom had risen only recently from the peasantry and the working class" and had not been "reshaped" to abandon completely the moral standards of the world of their origins.
In Stalin's Trap
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Liberal noblemen and socialists saw the peasantry as allies of their democratic cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the districts of the Nerbudda, we often see these black hornblende mortars, in which sugar-canes were once pressed by a happy peasantry, now standing upon a bare and barren surface of sandstone rock, twenty feet above the present surface of the culturable lands of the country.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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These lightly armoured skirmishers , drawn from the peasantry, are armed with javelins which they hurl at their foes to weaken their enemies and break up formations.
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The sweeping collectivisation of land in the 1950s was driven by the need to generate revenues to carry out industrialisation and maintain support for the regime among the mass of the peasantry.
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So far in 2000 it has lost another 9 percent of its value, passing the barrier of 25,000 sucres to the dollar, creating conditions of economic desperation for Ecuador's working class and peasantry.
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Such priests might very well be freed serfs, recruited from the very peasantry they baptized and buried; the social distance between their flock and themselves was minimal, if any existed at all.
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Family homes forsaken at gunpoint were promptly occupied by the peasantry, who deny all knowledge of past owners.
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As a leader in war he is responsible for the raising, equipping and training of the local fyrd which is drawn from among the lesser nobles and upper ranks of the peasantry in the area.
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Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet.
Try Anything Twice
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1781, Clinton reassured Cornwallis that he faced only 2000 regular Continentals, plus a small body of ill-armed "spiritless" "peasantry".
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The Riazan peasantry was not prepared economically or ideologically for the shift to collectivized agriculture.
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It passed reform measures to benefit the peasantry, decreasing the amount of land that large landholders were able to acquire and doing away with compensation for expropriated estates.
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It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries.
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At its centre stood the peasant commune, they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.
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She threw herself into the work with her customary enthusiasm, undertaking to make more welfare reach the peasantry.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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The Russian peasantry stood on the brink of disappearance.
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Instead of standing up for the landless peasantry, the veterans spent most of the pre-election period frightening the life out of them.
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The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
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As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
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bandanna"; -- quite suggestive of the every day wear of foreign peasantry.
Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"
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They also collected an extraordinary amount of customary dues from the peasantry.
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Lord Stanhope, in his "History of England from the Peace of Utrecht," writes as if the Irish clergymen -- the clergymen, that is, of the Established Church of Ireland -- might have accomplished wonders in the way of converting the Irish peasantry to Protestantism if they only could have preached and controverted in the Irish language.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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What began as an attempt to pacify the peasantry soon broadened out into an attack on privileges in general.
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Sociologically, the peasantry remained by far its largest class: 45 per cent of the population.
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Much of the food of the peasantry is raw or half-raw salt fish, and vegetables rendered indigestible by being coarsely pickled, all bolted with the most marvellous rapidity, as if the one object of life were to rush through a meal in the shortest possible time.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The groans of an oppressed peasantry, the curses of an overtaxed burgherdom, could not pierce through the chorus of merriment.
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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The state tolerated this situation, for it enabled it to recruit the army and raise taxes directly from the peasantry, without intermediaries.
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Before the nineteenth century, the national identity was synonymous with the peasantry.
