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Example sentences for: peasantry
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Left behind by the exodus to Pakistan at the 1947 partition, they make up the peasantry in the north.
Among the peasantry, rumors spread alleging an Anglo-Jewish conspiracy to remove Muslims from Palestine.
His contemporary, Amsterdam-born Cornelius Krieghoff (1815–1872), concentrated on the Québec peasantry and landscapes, as you can see here with his striking Montmorency Falls in Winter.
The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Armed with almost absolute powers, Solon produced a constitution advancing the ideal of equality before the law for citizens of all classes, set up a trial-by-jury system, freed the peasantry from debt to landowners, and introduced far-sighted reforms that revived the languishing economy.