serfage
Example Sentences
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They are naturally a kind people; but let one example show how serfage can transmute kindness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
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
There is nothing to prevent the successor of Alexander the Second from restoring the system of serfage, with all its concomitant horrors.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
During her reign serfage may be said to have reached its climax.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
There were no lords of manors, no feudalism, no serfage of any kind.
From The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding
