Sentence examples for by serfs from inspiring English sources

Her handmaid is more or less gang-raped by serfs.

The Grindelwald Valley was originally used during the summer for pasturage by serfs of various great lords.

Arkhangelskoye, about 15 miles west of Moscow, was at various times destroyed by Napoleon, nearly burned by serfs, and taken over as a sanitarium by the Soviet army.

Members of the gentry exclusively were allowed to own estates populated by serfs; estates owned by nobles were made hereditary property, and the power to revoke title to an estate (as well as to revoke a nobleman's rank) was entrusted to the courts.

The charter gave the gentry extensive power over its serfs; the nobles gained judicial authority over all crimes committed by serfs except robbery and murder and were empowered to sentence a serf to penal servitude in Siberia and also to recall him.

Two years later, the doctor was found murdered by his serfs.

Now she's a self-complete man/woman on her estate, run by invisible serfs".

His usual vehicle when driving through the streets of his capital, is a sledge or a droshky, drawn by a single horse; and when travelling his tetegue is a rude carriage, little better than those used by the serfs.

The Diet of 1559 also decreed that Romanians who had settled on lands abandoned by Catholic serfs were obliged to pay the tithe.

The pompous, royal inauguration spoke of a strengthening of a class system, in which the role of nobility is played by corrupt bureaucrats and the role of serfs by everyone else.

She was taken care of by a serf named Caterina, who lived in the house as part of the family and received no wages.