One more stride yet, and at last our leader's pistol flashed and we poured in a close volley, supported by a shower of heavy stones from the sturdy peasants behind.

Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough.

Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond.

But it will no longer be necessary to depict the contras as the people, united, rising against their tormentors, sturdy peasants struggling against Soviet "hegemonism," as the media's favorite experts had soberly explained.

Such facts, though plainly important and newsworthy, must be suppressed, because they are not conducive to the portrayal of the sturdy peasants of Nicaragua organizing to resist Sandinista depredations.

They wandered for a time through the echoing marble halls of the palace, Kheva in his bright red velvet and Errand in sturdy peasant brown, until they came at last to the grand ballroom.

The search for a wet nurse, which began immediately, led, after two failed attempts, to the selection of a sturdy peasant from the northern regions of the kingdom.

They argue every command and take a perverse pride in slovenliness and indiscipline-Had f but a few thousand of my sturdy Kortolian peasants..." Jorian laughed shortly.

In 25 years of marriage, Ms. Li, a sturdy 47-year-old peasant in this village in southern China, has never once forgotten to carry out this ritual.