Use "serf" in a sentence

1. This led to a serf (helot) revolt, which required years to overcome

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2. The term used in the article is Serf of the Chamber:

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3. The abolition of serfdom in Europe was effective because the son of a serf could

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4. house Jews, see Hoffjude, Hoffaktor, serf of the chamber

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5. serf of the chamber, 99

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6. The black plague stalked through the streets of Belverus, striking down the merchant in his stall, the serf in his kennel, the knight at his banquet board

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7. the last words said by the serf to the Lord

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8. Love will be a serf

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9. “Fucking A they're privileges; it's the privilege of master and royalty over nigger and serf

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10. But where is the freedom in being liberated from the absences and abuses of slave labor only to be consigned as a serf in a monergic tyranny? Yet, regardless the circumstance, once one is enslaved, one can seek various freedoms within that enslavement, all imagined, some real

11. This is governance by Corporation – which is the purest current form of the Rule of Money – a feudal serf employed by an Absolute Monarch: darwinian winners, the Exceptional race, selected by money to be masters over

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12. And like any other serf living on a manor, the member of the homeowner association is bound by a pledge of obedience to whatever rules and bylaws the peasant’s betters might decide to promulgate

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13. If any peasant or serf, or slave showed any resistance or objection to their terrorizing tactics: they were killed and burned and tortured in public as examples to terrorize the masses by

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14. “Yes, but you’re the hotel manager, I’m a lowly serf in comparison

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15. I had a serf, Filka; just after his burial I called out forgetting 'Filka, my pipe!' He came in and went to the cupboard where my pipes were

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16. And he used to be a house serf

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17. When a serf died, his land might be inherited by his widow, his sons or a married daughter

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18. “If the bailiff of a village says that a serf has defaulted on his rent, or that part of the

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19. It was dangerous for a serf to accuse a lord of a crime

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20. It was very difficult for a serf to accuse a lord in a court of law

21. A serf would normally remain standing when talking to a lady

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22. “Don’t worry, Mother, they’ll never convict a lord on the word of a serf

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23. People said that Earl Roland could not allow one of his lords to be executed on the word of a serf

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24. ” A free tenancy meant that the tenant was not a serf, and did not have to work on the lord’ s land, or get his permission to marry or build a house

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25. “You’re the son of a serf,” Nathan said to Wulfric

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26. He was the father of the dead man but, more importantly, he testified that Sam was a serf of Earl Ralph’ s and had not been given leave to go to Oldchurch

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27. Now, in our own day, we landowners in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: drying machines and thrashing machines, and carting manure and all the modern implements—all that we brought into use by our authority, and the peasants opposed it at first, and ended by imitating us

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28. Nicholas knew that this Daniel, disdainful of everybody and who considered himself above them, was all the same his serf and huntsman

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29. Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to ‘Uncle’s

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30. Two young citizens were joking with some serf girls who were cracking nuts

31. One day he would order his camp bed to be set up in the glass gallery, another day he remained on the couch or on the lounge chair in the drawing room and dozed there without undressing, while- instead of Mademoiselle Bourienne- a serf boy read to him

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32. A little serf boy, seeing Prince Andrew, ran into the house

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33. ‘He says ‘a woman,’ and Mary Nikolievna is a lady,’ remarked a house serf

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34. The French patrol was one of those sent out through the various streets of Moscow by Durosnel’s order to put a stop to the pillage, and especially to catch the incendiaries who, according to the general opinion which had that day originated among the higher French officers, through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters

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35. That same evening a house serf who had come from Borovsk said he had seen an immense army entering the town

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36. When Nicholas first began farming and began to understand its different branches, it was the serf who especially attracted his attention

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37. When a decision had to be taken regarding a domestic serf, especially if one had to be punished, he always felt undecided and consulted everybody in the house; but when it was possible to have did so without the least hesitation

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38. It had bare deal floors and was furnished with very simple hard sofas, armchairs, tables, and chairs made by their own serf carpenters out of their own birchwood

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39. The obrok was a species of poll-tax paid by a serf, either in lieu of the forced labour or in consideration of being permitted to exercise a trade or profession elsewhere

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40. “Read, you will deign to see,” replied the serf

41. “You see, my lord,” said my serf, “that my petition to the bandit was not useless! And although this old hack and this peasant’s touloup are not worth half what the rascals stole, yet they are better than nothing

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42. In half an hour I was in the saddle, Saveliitch on an old, half-starved, limping rosinante, which a citizen, not having fodder, had given for nothing to the serf

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43. I had a serf, Filka; just after his burial I called out forgetting ‘Filka, my pipe!’ He came in and went to the cupboard where my pipes were

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44. So it must have lain hidden in my soul, though I knew nothing of it, and rose suddenly to my memory when it was wanted; I remembered the soft motherly smile of the poor serf, the way he signed me with the cross and shook his head

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45. And what made him like that? He was our serf and I was his little master, after all

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46. It was a solitary meeting in the deserted fields, and only God, perhaps, may have seen from above with what deep and humane civilised feeling, and with what delicate, almost feminine tenderness, the heart of a coarse, brutally ignorant Russian serf, who had as yet no expectation, no idea even of his freedom, may be filled

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47. A serf of hers called Pyotr was at once suspected, and every circumstance confirmed the suspicion

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48. At last he finds such a man as Suchiloff, a former serf, sentenced only to become a colonist

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49. He is a peasant attached to the soil, a domestic serf, a shopkeeper, or a soldier

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50. He had been a serf, one of those not attached to the soil, but who serve their masters as domestics

51. She was a serf, but had received a European education

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52. She's only a serf, she daren't

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53. "Can one wonder that Stavrogin fought Gaganov and took no notice of the student? He couldn't challenge a man who used to be his serf!"

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54. Mortally insulted by a student, that is, an educated man, no longer a serf, he despised the affront because his assailant had once been his serf

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55. He lives here, he was once a serf, the man who gave that slap

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56. More than once, when comparing the position of a landowner with that of an owner of serfs, Nekhludoff had compared the renting of land to the peasants instead of cultivating it with hired labour, to the old system by which serf proprietors used to exact a money payment from their serfs in place of labour

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57. Our serf Petrusha had met me with a candle, ready to undress me, but I sent him away

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58. If a Roman, a man of the Middle Ages, a Russian, as I remember him to have been fifty years ago, was incontestably convinced that the existing violence of the power was necessary in order to free him from evil, that taxes, levies, serf law, prisons, whips, knouts, hard labour, capital punishment, militarism, wars, must exist,—it will be hard now to find a man who either believes that all acts of violence free any one from anything, or even does not see clearly that the majority of all those cases of violence to which he is subject and in which he partly shares are in themselves a great and useless evil

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59. If there is an old-fashioned house, built under the serf régime, that house is repaired and embellished; if there is none, then a new one is erected, of two or three stories

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60. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, to which Pierre did not agree

61. Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to “Uncle’s

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62. One day he would order his camp bed to be set up in the glass gallery, another day he remained on the couch or on the lounge chair in the drawing room and dozed there without undressing, while—instead of Mademoiselle Bourienne—a serf boy read to him

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63. “He says ‘a woman,’ and Mary Nikoláevna is a lady,” remarked a house serf

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64. After marching through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters

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65. That same evening a house serf who had come from Bórovsk said he had seen an immense army entering the town

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66. When a decision had to be taken regarding a domestic serf, especially if one had to be punished, he always felt undecided and consulted everybody in the house; but when it was possible to have a domestic serf conscripted instead of a land worker he did so without the least hesitation

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67. As a matter of fact, not one-tenth part of the most cruel of all gossip—the gossip of country-houses—is worthy of credence; and although, when I first made Madame’s acquaintance, she had living with her in the house a clerk named Mitusha, who had been promoted from a serf, and who, curled, pomaded, and dressed in a frockcoat of Circassian pattern, always stood behind his mistress’s chair at luncheon, while from time to time she invited her guests to admire his handsome eyes and mouth, there was nothing for gossip to take hold of

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68. This stoical mode of life he sought to apply also to his family, so far as the sympathetic respect which he conceived to be his mother’s due would allow of; so that, although, in the drawing-room, he would show her only stuttering servility, and fulfil all her wishes, and blame any one who did not do precisely as she bid them, in his study or his office he would overhaul the cook if she had served up so much as a duck without his orders, or any one responsible for sending a serf (even though at Madame’s own bidding) to inquire after a neighbour’s health or for despatching the peasant girls into the wood to gather wild raspberries instead of setting them to weed the kitchen-garden

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69. Trevanion, following back into the raise, would have cut his heart out to save that buoyant young life, but his devotion was the pure fealty of a serf for his sovereign

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