pleasantries
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Two of the world's oldest peasantries mingle their blood in Daniel Shearer to produce, not a figure of earth, but one whose brogans plod in the path of righteousness, leaking clay at every seam.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slaveries could last, and peasantries could last; but wage-earning communities could hardly even live, and were already dying.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Abroad, where there were peasantries, it was different, but in England the peasantry had already disappeared.
From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The costumes and customs of a hundred peasantries are there to prove that such ugliness does not necessarily follow from mere poverty, or mere democracy, or mere unlettered simplicity of mind.
From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
