Peasants store their pitiful savings in trinkets.
Though she had quite a bit of property, and several shops, she dressed like a peasant & worked hard.
The paper became wildly popular in Egypt: peasants crowded into coffee shops to hear it read aloud, and sheikhs were rumored to hide it in their turbans.
A peasant's son, Vauquelin went to work in an apothecary shop, where he was befriended by Antoine-François Fourcroy, who made him his laboratory assistant (1783 91).
And since local traders are unable to borrow money to repair burnt-out shops or wrecked lorries, the maize grown by peasant farmers remains unsold.
Although many of the high-priced restaurants that opened then served northern Italian food, even southern peasant dishes my grandmother prepared could be found on menus or in specialty shops.
Across the road is a sex shop, Die Philosophie im Boudoir, with a huge mural of a wench in peasant garb exposing her bare bum to all passers-by.
Typical of many rural communities in central Uganda, the main sources of livelihood are peasant agriculture and petty trade in agricultural and household items, sold in food stalls and shops spread around the villages and along the arterial highway connecting Kampala with northern Uganda [ 55].
