The nobility had reserved benches on the left side of the church, while the Ruthenian peasants would sit or stand to the right.
'The peasants stood to it like men,' I remarked.
And the two peasants who'd opened the show stood at center stage.
The peasant who the landlord addressed stood frozen to the spot, like a rat petrified by the gaze of a snake.
The peasants stood in a knot in the background, muttering.
The peasants stood a little longer, put on their caps and walked away.
The peasants stood round in a crowd, doing nothing but staring at the fire.
A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave.
Even with these measures, the peasants did not stand much of a chance against the professional fighters of a chevauchée.
A peasant stands next to them; behind is a bespectacled intellectual.