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“But listen, gossip,” said the egg-merchant to the peasant,
Household Tales 2003
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Then, on the other, we must call to view the simple Acadian peasant,
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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Thou frien 'o' the prince an 'thou frien' o 'the peasant,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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This was just one other example of the thousands one meets daily of the spirit of noble and peasant,
The White Road to Verdun Kathleen Burke 1922
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I bethought me of the very House of Sforza, to which I had been so shamefully attached, and of its humble source in that peasant,
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Two of them wish to marry her, and when we add the Englishman, Lionel, and the French peasant,
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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` ` It is well avouched, '' said the elder peasant,
Ivanhoe 1892
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In hoping to find a friend in the Italian peasant,
The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891
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Rousseau and Voltaire loved each other and helped each other, as the proud Leonardo helped the humble and no less proud peasant,
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885
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A mother's love, a father's care, these -- though young people may not always read them aright -- are needed for the moulding of character; while to every bright young girl, historic or unhistoric, princess or peasant,
Historic Girls Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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