Sentences with phrase «thousands of peasants»

On the occasion of a new government tax, thousands of peasants marched on London from all over the country and burned the palace of the duke of Lancaster and also murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

I was an assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending sheep, laboring in rhythm — not with nature, to be sure — but with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.

But within a few short years the Revolution led first to schism (with the «Civil Constitution of the Clergy» in 1790) and soon to the outright de - Christianisation of France, accompanied by the unleashing of the Terror, in which hundreds of thousands of innocent Catholics were murdered — not least the 115,000 peasants of the Vendée, slaughtered in the first genocide of the modern age.

In his letter inviting Amsdorf to the wedding party, he described some of the military detail he had heard about: «In Franconia eleven thousand peasants were killed in three different places... sixty - one intact cannon were captured... In the Duchy of Wurtenberg, six thousand peasants were killed... Thus the poor peasants are being killed everywhere.»

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

Sixteen miles long and only seven miles across at its widest point, Elba in the early nineteenth century was home mainly to goats, deserted ruins, a variety of vines and scraggly shrubs on arid hillsides, and approximately twelve thousand impoverished peasants with a well - deserved reputation for being «extremely irritable» and «almost universally ignorant.»

Regarding the outfit details, there's that homesewn tan skirt again, but this time paired with my brown lace up flats, a new thrifted white peasant blouse top, a stack of Indian bangles from Ten Thousand Villages and my new purse from Top Vintage.

Thousands of Cuban peasants were placed in «reconcentration camps» where they suffered and died from malnutrition, diseases, and horrendous conditions.

However, indigenous and peasant organizations called it unconstitutional, stating that it would destroy their agricultural economy, threaten traditional systems of land tenure and drive thousands to immigrate to city slums in search of work.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.