peasant-women

She liked feasting the peasant-women, too, on holidays; they would dance, and she would tap with her heels and throw herself into attitudes.

A Desperate Character 2006

Ivanitch walked also through the village; the peasant-women stared at him from the doorways of their huts, their cheeks resting on their hands; the peasants saluted him from a distance, the children ran out, and the dogs barked indifferently.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

"Thus peasant-women are very anxious to have grown-up princesses become then foster-children -- the latter simply bite gently the breasts of their foster-mothers, and forthwith a close relationship subsists between them."

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

All the peasants and peasant-women came to meet me, dressed in their holiday attire, and the supervisor of the village, to whose hat a large bouquet had been fastened, stepped up to the carriage to deliver an address to me.

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

The peasant-women, poor things! are ugly, because they work from morning till night in the vineyards, toiling until their backs are broken.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

The peasant-women through a great part of Sicily wear a semi-circular piece of woollen cloth over their heads; it is always black or white, and hangs in agreeable folds over the neck and shoulders.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

Adepts like the Highland peasant-women can and do foretell events that subsequently occur, and that with remarkable accuracy.

Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer

Tyrolese singers, and Swiss peasant-women who were to chant the _Ranz des Vaches_, and milk cows, or make syllabubs, were engaged.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

It is a great field of succulent verdure, that wide old market-place; and fancy loves to browse about among its gay stores of fruits and vegetables, brought thither by the world-old peasant-women who have been bringing fruits and vegetables to the Paduan market for so many centuries.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Many peasant-women of Normandy and Bretagne sell their beautiful brown, red, or golden locks, but these are of such fine quality that they command very high prices.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various