moujik
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When I was a poor newspaper moujik in Chicago 15 years ago I quit one day and announced I was out to make a million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Page 213—plating amended to plaiting—"... sat a moujik plaiting a bast shoe."
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
As we returned, I saw in the town something which recalled this story in more than one moujik, who, well wrapped up, lay sleeping in the open air, under the lee of a house.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
If he glowered this moujik was done for.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
There is no suggestion of flabbiness about her and so she can impart to us the soul of the struggling moujik, the spirit of a nation, the figure on the prow of a Greek bark....
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
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