This has made them the favored weapon of peasant levies and peasants in rebellion the world over.

The early days of peasant levies became unsustainable.

He took them for peasant levies Thorisin had scraped up from Phos knew where.

Of course, there was the militia: two thousand peasant levies, anybody who could do an hour's foot-drill without dropping dead, armed with anything at all.

A few looked like regulars; most of them were peasant levies.

If Gormoth waited till his harvests were in and used all his peasant levies, more than that.

But it gave everybody security without having to hire expensive mercenaries or call out peasant levies when they were most needed in the fields.

Behind them, eating their dust, trudged the peasant levies who made up the bulk of the army.

While the old feudal princes (vāspuhragan) remained, they were required to render military service with their local troops (for the most part peasant levies).

The peasant levies and fainthearts are long gone, dead or fled.