Sentence examples for peasants servants from inspiring English sources
Settings range socially from the milieux of peasants, servants and merchants to those of governors and ministers, and geographically extend to the far reaches of the Qing empire.
The Fabergé workshops produced about 50 sculptures in semiprecious stones and gold representing peasants, servants and the occasional Gypsy singer and street sweeper.
The character developed in late 17th-century Austria from Hanswurst, the cunning peasant servant of the Viennese popular theatre.
Even peasants and servants stood up bravely.
The dramatis personae include landed aristocrats, their bourgeois neighbors, peasants and servants.
His novels often bring us into the world of metaphorical class conflict, fearsome encounters between a dominant oligarchy and the lower classes - peasants or servants, the underdog rebels against the emotional and political tyranny of the rich.
On one hand, the Great Chain ranked the races of mankind from "lower" to "higher;" and on the other, within English society, it carried through the social order with peasants and servants at the bottom, then tradesmen and the gentry, then the nobility, and on up to royalty at the top who served to link earthly and heavenly existences.
It was a kitchen of slaves, peasants and servants".
All of them look down on Kurds as a backward peasant or servant class.
He is bored with what's around him: the peasants, the same servant.
For Atwood, these girls had been complicit in Penelope's plot to outwit the men, and their speedy dispatch by the returning Odysseus points to their status as a mythic underclass - of peasants, slaves and servant girls - which our favourite heroic tales are happy to trample on or (at best) ignore.
