Word: serfs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peasant Rebellion" is a brief sketch of an incident of the serf insurrection of 1525, by Mr. Prescott F. Hall. The description is delicately and pathetically written. There is no poetry in the number. It is completed by the usual Brief, which has at last come down nearly to date...
...Yale freshman is called a "semi-serf...
...remember the blow, did he not remember Madelon? He shivered as a long howl rang like music in my ears, and murmured to himself that a cross-bow would not have been amiss; but still the wolves would seldom attack two, and if they did, a serf more or less made little difference, and while they were busy with me he could escape. But the change was coming, I felt it burning within me; and he started as he looked at my eyes, which I felt were slowly gaining the fiendish, yellowy glare. Pale, paler than the snow beneath...