mujik
Britishnoun
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But this strategy of massed-force-cum-surprise had two flaws: it overestimated the value of the tank-plane team; it underestimated the value of the grey, sturdy, patient Russian mujik as a military weapon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet this mujik was now a first-rate soldier.
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"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.
From Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar by Verne, Jules
If a mujik enters your room he crosses himself before saluting you.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
"What is the matter?" asked the astonished mujik.
From Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar by Verne, Jules
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