peasant
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They impacted the lives of more than 100 million people through trade unions, peasant organisations, student wings and disciplined cadre networks.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
One newspaper denounced “The Playboy of the Western World” as an “unmitigated, prolonged libel upon Irish peasant men and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
“It’s like reading an old English novel when you’re the peasant, and you’re not recognized.”
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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