Flem This peasant is a kind of Peruvian gold mine.

THE SCOTTISH PEASANT'S LAMENT.

"Our peasants are queer people.

Considered generally, these peasants of the Haut-Quercy are not fine specimens of the human animal.

Perhaps the young peasant who most expressly stands out as the pupil and successor of Burns, is Robert Nicoll.

The truth seems to be that to this day the peasant remains a pagan and savage at heart; his civilization is merely a thin veneer which the hard knocks of life soon abrade, exposing the solid core of paganism and savagery below.

The peasant, or moujik, is a primitive and generally an entirely illiterate person, but he possesses qualities which his more sophisticated brothers in the West may well envy and admire, a profound common-sense, a grand simplicity of life and outlook, and an unshakable faith in the unseen world.

Up to 1861 the peasants had been serfs, the property, with the land on which they lived, of the landowner.

Both the peasants and the cultured would be Christians, but with this difference, that in one case the seed would be growing on the surface, and in the other from the depths.

The chief factor in the festive attire which the peasants of that region wear is the number of vests that they put on under their coats.

Bonde, in English translation, is usually called peasant; but this is not an equivalent; for with the word "peasant" we associate the idea of inferior social condition to the landed aristocracy of the country, while these peasants or bondes were themselves the highest class in the country.

Like the majority of the nobility, the peasants of France are royalists.

In those times a temple was a more reliable landlord than an individual alien, and the poorer peasants readily became temple tenants; this increased their inclination towards Buddhism.

I could wish, that not only the peasants of La Vendee, but those of all other countries, might for ever remain strangers to such pernicious knowledge.

The peasants were at work, men and women, cutting the grain with rude scythes, binding it into sheaves, and stacking it in the fields.

As between the Gallic peasant before the Roman conquest, the peasant of the Gallic province, the Carlovingian peasant, the French peasant of the thirteenth, the seventeenth, and the twentieth centuries, there is, in spite of a general uniformity of life, of a common atmosphere of cows, hens, dung, toil, ploughing, economy, and domestic intimacy, an effect of accumulating generalising influences and of wider relevancies.

The peasants in the country are protectionists and belong to the conservative party.

This once resolved, the peasants were enjoin'd Sere-wood, and firs, and dodder'd oaks to find.

The peasant is a military slave.

The richer a peasant is, the more vests he wears on extraordinary occasions.

From that day the peasant and all his family were firm friends of Ethelried's, and would have gone through fire and water to serve him.

But besides these regularly recurring celebrations the peasants in many parts of Europe have been wont from time immemorial to resort to a ritual of fire at irregular intervals in seasons of distress and calamity, above all when their cattle were attacked by epidemic disease.

Almost every peasant in the Haut-Quercy who has something of the spirit of Nimrod in him is more or less a poacher.

Under his banner Irish peasants became human beings with human rights.

Peasant and nobleman are musical alikeit runs in the race.