1 Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
2 For him to say he knew the peasantry would have been the same as to say he knew men.
3 He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them.
4 But Appius could not follow the plan of gaining over the peasantry, since in Rome they and the people were one.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL. 5 On the other hand, if the rent was too high, or if the land deteriorated, the result was to discourage and check the efforts of the black peasantry.
6 Nay, even the wooden huts of the peasantry were wonderful in the solidity of their construction, and not a clay wall or a carved pattern or other device was to be seen.
7 Nor is this peculiar to Sambo; it has in history been just as true of John and Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground-down peasantries.