Sentence example with the word 'peons'

peons

Last update: October 18, 2015

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The "peons" as a rule were negroes, but a few white ones were found; and in several instances negroes were found holding members of their own race in peonage.   [Please select]

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Perhaps the peons were not so far wrong.   [Please select]

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The doctor, Adela and myself, the two peons who had volunteered to accompany us, with the girl, Conchita, composed our travelling party.   [Please select]

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The peons, or serfs, demanded the break-up of the great estates, some of which had come down from the days of Cortez.   [Please select]

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"[21] A few mounted _rurales_ only were out, the "Messiah of the peons" having put the crowd on its honor."   [Please select]

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"Peons", clad in white cotton and reddish leathern garments, are busy in the fields.   [Please select]

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They are the "peons", the labourers, the serfs of the land--the descendants of the conquered sons of Anahuac.   [Please select]

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So was the hacienda and the huts of the peons and workmen.   [Please select]

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It's a bit wabbly for founding a government on, but doubtless represents very accurately the dreams of the _pelados_ (skinned ones), as the peons are called.   [Please select]

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Peons almost never sing, but a wheezy organ was playing, and the priest, whom I could just see, was giving the blessing after Mass.   [Please select]

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