Sentences with phrase «peasant life so»

In this parable we find again the sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life so characteristic of Jesus.

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For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

So it was a pleasant surprise to me at the end to discover that the compassionate, resourceful, and brave peasant woman we had followed throughout the show turned out to be the love of Robin's life.

Faced with the options of either staying a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.