serfage
Example Sentences
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If we compare the development of serfage in Russia and in Western Europe, we find very many points in common, but in Russia the movement had certain peculiarities.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Part of these gain a miserable pittance as agricultural labourers, and live in a condition infinitely worse than serfage.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
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 John Richard Greene
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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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
