Sentence examples for serfs to from inspiring English sources

However, it also formally tied serfs to the estates on which they resided.

He has called Mr. Pynchon's characters "not human" and "serfs to allegory".

In a famous sermon on August 15, 1514, he announced that he was returning his Indian serfs to the governor.

She explores the complex case of the Polish peasants of Austrian Galicia, from the 1848 emancipation of the serfs to the eve of the First World War.

But the large population growth that occurred in Russia between emancipation and the Revolution of 1905 made it increasingly difficult for the former serfs to get by economically.

After China's crushing of an uprising in neighbouring Tibet in 1959, he went beyond the freeing of the serfs to embark on a tentative opening up.

He wants to reduce middle-class Americans to serfs, forced to accept whatever wages corporations choose to pay, no matter how low".

That makes you wonder: what if Sunday's game had been on ABC, the broadcast serf to Mother ESPN?

The lord could also compel the serf to cultivate that portion of the lord's land that was not held by other tenants (called demesne land).

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.

They specified a different set of obligations for each: the task of the Brahman is to study and advise, the baron to protect, the Vaishya to cultivate, and the serf to serve.