The corn was now ripe, and added to the interest and beauty of the scenes; in many of the fields the reapers were at work, and the harvest (which happily for France had not been so abundant for many years) was going on with the assistance of the female peasantry, who on all occasions partake and cheer the labours of the field.

We have no imaginative peasantry to invent legends, no ignorant peasantry to believe them.

Into this town the armed peasantry threw themselves, with five thousand troops under Niketas, while Miaulis with his fleet raised the blockade by sea and supplied the town with provisions.

"A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once , can never be supplied.

We can facilitate the establishment in India of European cultivators and landholders, who are the natural and legitimate advisers of the native peasantry on such questions as those to which I have been referring.

The miserable Irish peasantry lived in mud huts or cabins, covered partially with thatch, but not enough to keep out the rain.

They hoped that by yielding, before they were driven quite to the last extremity, by the tide of public sentiment in England, they should escape from all philanthropic interference and surveillance, and be able to bring the faces of their unyoked peasantry to the grindstone of inadequate wages.

By virtue of their nobility, it is true, they belonged to the privileged class of the country, and were not subjected to the humiliations of the oppressed peasantry, yet they had to earn a living by their own work, and were therefore not only accessible to, but were ready enthusiastically to receive, the lofty message of liberty and equality which the French Revolution of 1830 began to proclaim anew throughout Europe.

The Anatolian population is a sober, labouring peasantry, essentially agricultural and wedded to the soil.

Around this weird spot was perhaps the most degraded peasantry to be found in England, without even spiritual instruction,for the vicar was a non-resident, and his living was worth but £50 a year.

And on the opposite fringes of the Arabic-speaking area there are fragments of population whose language is Semitic but pre-Arabicthe Jacobite Christians of the Tor-Abdin, and the Nestorians of the Upper Zab, who once, under the Caliphs, were the industrious Christian peasantry of Mesopotamia, but now are shepherds and hillmen among the Kurds.

"A werewolf," he said, "is a true psychical fact of profound significance, however absurdly it may have been exaggerated by the imaginations of a superstitious peasantry in the days of unenlightenment, for a werewolf is nothing but the savage, and possibly sanguinary, instincts of a passionate man scouring the world in his fluidic body, his passion body, his body of desire.

Republican though she is to the backbone, Norway has elected to be governed by monarchical methods, fearing with her isolated and primitive peasantry, to put the machinery of control into the hands of the people themselves.

They would go forth, year by year, a leavening power into the houses, towns and villages of the Southern black population; girls fit to be the wives of the honest peasantry of the South, the worthy matrons of their numerous households.

Of a strong religious temperament, they embraced Christianity late (13th century), and still retain many pagan superstitions; formerly serfs, they are now a humble peasantry engaged in agriculture, cattle-breeding, and bee-keeping.

I Once a number of Icelandic peasantry found a very thick skull in the cemetery where the poet Egil was buried.

Leave him to wander alone in that woody dell, with the thrilling picture spread around himthe sinking walls of elaborate Gothic, clouded by the hanging woodsthe rural dwellings of the illiterate peasantry scattered below the templed mountand the mourning stream and its rustic bridgethus entranced, his fairy spirit would pour forth a flood of pensive and philosophic song.

We have no imaginative peasantry to invent legends, no ignorant peasantry to believe them.

It was the immense, the profound, the incommensurable peasantry of the financier and the parvenu, beaming, like a pitiful sun, upon the idolatrous town which wallowed on the ground the while it uttered impure psalms before the impious tabernacle of banks.

Sweden had, on one hand, a powerful, able nobility; on the other, a strong, independent peasantry,a combination full of pitfalls for a weak ruler, but with equal promise of great things under the master hand.

It was the theory of Young England that the historic memory must be awakened in the lower classes; that utilitarianism was sapping the very vitals of society, and that ballads and May-poles and quaint festivities and processions of a loyal peasantry were the proper things for politicians to encourage.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

The same authority states that Nicholas in reality was the first Emperor who granted estates excepting therefrom the resident peasantry.

The conception of fire as a destructive agent, which can be turned to account for the consumption of evil things, is so simple and obvious that it could hardly escape the minds even of the rude peasantry with whom these festivals originated.

The Anatolian population is a sober, labouring peasantry, essentially agricultural and wedded to the soil.