serfage
Example Sentences
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They revived Old-World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Rural serfage was maintained, which proves that the revolution had been directed by the burghers, and for their own profit.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law which had become a tyranny, poured into the streets of the town.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
On the other hand, I do not wish to whitewash serfage or attenuate its evil consequences.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
