Sentence examples for peasant boy from inspiring English sources

A peasant boy held up the hinge.

The story was about a peasant boy in medieval England.

Lyubov is his fantasy of attainment, the privileged woman who was kind to him when he was a peasant boy.

Ludo, short for Ludwig, is a Bavarian peasant boy – not particularly sharp-witted, but gentle, trustworthy and conscientious.

Social mobility increased during the early Qing, supported by a pervasive belief that it was possible for a peasant boy to become the first scholar in the land.

Formerly Joseph Trotta, a peasant boy from Sipolje, in Silesia, he becomes Captain Baron Joseph von Trotta und Sipolje, with a lacquered helmet that radiates "black sunshine".

Barefoot peasant boys wore formal clothes; men sported gold chains and watches".

Give me instead the indolent boy with his mouth stuffed with bread, in Murillo's Two Peasant Boys.

Since then its numbers have been greatly expanded through conscription, which means many of today's soldiers are ill-trained peasant boys, whose families will have suffered from the regime's colossal incompetence.

"Any exhibition of knowledge of European life, civilization or history," he once wrote, "drove the British community in India to make the gesture which peasant boys in India make at a passing train.

The Salvadoran grunts -- mostly unlettered peasant boys, many of whom had been pulled from buses or off country roads and pressed into service, having received little training and less regard from their officers -- loved Monterrosa for his willingness to get down in the dirt with them and fight.