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A parade of slow-moving, sheaf-waving dancers, moreover, suspiciously resembles the static, peasantlike figures in Robbins' own Watermill.

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Flattened by wave after wave of inflation and devaluation, many French men have developed a peasantlike distrust of stocks, bonds or paper money?and an earthy passion for material goods.

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Her thick-brogued, almost blatantly peasantlike Joan was all drive and no dreaminess.

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He has recovered from the tumor described in Cancer Ward, but retains an almost peasantlike distrust of modern medicine.

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His figure was undersized, his visage brown, hard, and peasantlike, his gesture was a gesticulation, and his voice was alternately feeble and shrill.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various