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
They all desire it, gospodar, from the Grand Duke in his beautiful palace to the moujik in his cellar—they all desire my lovely book!
From The Book of All-Power by Wallace, Edgar
Of a sudden, a voice in the crowd cries out: "He is a rich moujik, and he should have five shares of the land as his burden at the least."
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.
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
In the Marche Slav of Tschaikovsky Isadora symbolizes her conception of the Russian moujik rising from slavery to freedom.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
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