Peasant in example sentence

'It will take them twenty-four hours to discover the peasant who sold it to you'; and flinging herself into Julien's arms and clasping him in a convulsive embrace: 'Ah! to die, to die like this!' she cried as she covered him with kisses; 'but I must not let you die of hunger,' she added with a laugh.

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"The Good Earth" is about Chinese peasant life.

Finally, my father, an Algerian peasant's son turned professor, was forced to stop teaching at the university and to flee his apartment, but what I will never forget about Mahfoud Bennoune, my dad, was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals, he refused to leave the country and he continued to publish pointed criticisms, both of the fundamentalists and sometimes of the government they battled.

Remember the Zapatistas, the peasant uprising in the southern Chiapas region of Mexico led by the masked, pipe-smoking, charismatic Subcomandante Marcos?

We seem to be fixated on this romanticized idea that every poor peasant in Africa is an entrepreneur.

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