Sentence examples for rich peasant from inspiring English sources

Instead, he suggests making a senator of Angelica's father, the rich peasant.

But they couldn't find food in her house, couldn't brand her a kulak, a rich peasant.

The country couldn't afford such a building, one Chinese critic said; it was acting like a "rich peasant" who wastes his savings on a single bauble.

Gorky grew up in a dark, rich peasant culture that he transposed to the Caucasus in his frequent, lyrical reminiscing about it.

He exchanges satiric and vulgar repartee with his friend Hacivot, a pompous Turk with an affected accent, and with other stock characters, such as a newly rich peasant, a conniving dervish, and a Jewish merchant.

A central thread of the opera is the plight of mismatched lovers, Semyon and Sofia, the daughter of a rich peasant, Tkachenko, who plots against the Bolsheviks and plans to marry his daughter to the heir of a prosperous landowner.

For many readers, the section on the insane campaign against the kulaks (allegedly rich peasants) may be the most enlightening.

The Black Hundreds were composed primarily of landowners, rich peasants, bureaucrats, merchants, police officials, and clergymen, who supported the principles of Orthodoxy, autocracy, and Russian nationalism.

The costs of Soviet reform included the destruction of capital and the death of large numbers of kulaks, or rich peasants.

There had indeed been a small class of rich peasants, who owned 60 to 80 acres (25 to 35 hectares) of land.

Don Fabrizio, the prince of the Salina estate, connives to ensure the survival of his domain by co-opting the crass, ill-mannered but rich peasants.