| From the seventh century on, peasants designed and built adobe horizontal-vaned windmills to harness the wind power and grind wheat into flour. |
| He considered peasants a reactionary force and peasant societies a drag on historical progress. |
| St Germain could have divided and redivided its estates as it chose, and maybe even moved peasants physically to fit. |
| Most of the resistance fighters were peasants who traditionally wore kaffiyehs and lived in the mountains or small villages. |
| Distilling, like brewing and winemaking, became a family business over the years as monks passed on their knowledge to the peasants. |
| She lived and worked with a family of peasants, cultivating the field, planting crops, reaping the harvest. |
