serf sentence examples

• As a result, he was registered under the name of one of his father's serfs.
• In 1861, alexander ii had emancipated the serfs.
• Medieval serfs were expected to work for approximately 3 days each week on the lord's land.
• Serf labor at appalling cost of course.
• By that time some state serfs had been freed, some individual owners had freed their serfs.
• So the czar would create revolution and free the serfs - " better from above than from below.
• All across the land, everyone knew that the little serfs in the kingdom were nothing more that a pack of cheats.
• So it may not simply be wage serfs who are signing up for union membership.
• Their land and, livestock taken away from them, they have been condemned to the status of starving, landless serfs.
• Back in feudal times serfs on the land worked with the seasons and daylight.
• The former serfs occupy on the average about an acre, paying a rent of from twenty to twenty-four francs.
• The chattel slave was becoming a predial serf, attached to the soil and owing his master certain fixed services and returns in kind.
• The influence of the orthodox church was very great, particularly over the illiterate serfs and peasantry.

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