serfage
Example Sentences
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In the time of serfage the proprietors clearly perceived these and similar advantages, and compelled their serfs to live together in large families.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
The rural tenants found themselves in a mesh of legal claims—old services revived, old dues enforced, endless suits in the King's courts grinding them again to serfage.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
They revived Old World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
We must beware of attributing this doctrine of Neifty to the Norman Conquest, which merely supplied names; in definiteness and cruelty nothing could exceed the practice of serfage under the Saxons.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
Would not every dog-brother of them be better at home, working his serfage peaceably for his land?
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
