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.
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Yet this mujik was now a first-rate soldier.
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"There is surely the landmark of which the mujik spoke, and the peasant woman's dwelling cannot be far off."
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
"They have not killed her," replied the mujik, anticipating the anxiety which he read in the eyes of his guest.
From Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne
The mujik or artisan looks for the establishment of Christ's temporal kingdom, and anticipates the dominion promised to the saints.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
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