Sentence example with the word 'peasantry'

peasantry

bourgeoisie, common sort, commonalty, laborers, lower middle class, middle class, plain folks, rank and file, the lower cut, toilers, vulgus

Definition n. the class of peasants

Last update: June 16, 2015

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They embroil me with the peasantry.   [Please select]

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"Knocking-the-cat-out-of-the-barrel" is an old custom of the peasantry which takes place the Monday before Lent.   [Please select]

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In the stalk of the rye occurs a knot, forming a slight bulge known to the peasantry as the "sweet joint."   [Please select]

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Gault, unused to such talk from the alleged "peasantry," resolved to cut short the haggling.   [Please select]

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Though abbots were chosen generally from the upper classes, yet the ordinary monks sprang from the peasantry.   [Please select]

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The peasantry of Europe became earnest and stalwart warriors and farmers, even under the grinding despotism of feudal masters.   [Please select]

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In the castle she became genial and kind and sympathetic,--although haughty to inferiors and hard on the peasantry.   [Please select]

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He therefore gave new privileges to all; he gave charters of freedom to towns; he made concessions to the peasantry.   [Please select]

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Only the _byline_, or hero-songs of Russia, equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland.   [Please select]

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But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another.   [Please select]

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