Worker on a 43-Across

Usage examples of serf.

For his services the nobleman was given land and serfs, but not as outright or allodial property, as in the West, and only on condition that he served the Tsar.

So you can paste it in your tall silk hat, Mayn, that the Planetsmen are free men, not brainless stupid serfs.

My hold on this castle and the des mesne must be absolute, and my ville ins and serfs made to be aware that I will brook no trace of indisci-pline.

After a hard day of toiling in the wheat fields of some equally brain-damaged noble, there was nothing the average serf would rather do than down a couple pints of ale and go have some cross-eyed microcephalic with a wooden leg give him a blow job.

For three months Repin lived among the former serfs of Shiriayevo, a village overlooking the Volga near Samara.

After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.

An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills.

He blew on his fingers to warm them, then sauntered out from behind the crates and melted into a small crowd of serfs haggling with each other over a brace of squawking chickens held upside down by their feet.

Ivan, the Squinter, ruled over his serfs with Oriental despotism: he was ignorant, coarse, and profligate.

And so many crops were being cultivated because the food had to feed all the serfs, not just the freaky threesome in the castle.

The serfs have been seeing a monstrously deformed shape in the marshes around Lake Venne for centuries now.

Though aware of the dissatisfaction of the frontiersmen those serfs wanted to become part of the Military Frontier because villeinage service and the constantly growing taxes were becoming increasingly difficult for them to bear.

The heavy wood door, carried on the backs of serfs from faraway Bhutan centuries ago, was closed.

Instantly the yellow-haired serfs in waiting, the Calmucks at the hall-door, and the half-witted dwarf who crawled around the table in his tow shirt, began laughing in chorus, as violently as they could.

Yolande laughed and held up her arms for the serf to slide the Moorish-style striped djellaba over her head.