Many Lay brothers were illiterate peasants who performed the domestic or agricultural work of the community.

Courses for illiterate peasants were established by the education sections of the people's councils.

Not bad for an illiterate Ethiopian peasant who as a child never went to a day of school.

Without inner drive, he would have remained the illiterate peasant he was born.

An illiterate peasant; she had but one dress and no shoes.

Many still view the rebels as illiterate peasants, prone to violence, who have a slim chance of victory.

As the old man explains, this is simply "the best sort of thanks to heaven that an illiterate peasant could pay."

She foun him when he was forty years old, an illiterate peasant.

Although Sánchez entered prison as an illiterate peasant, he taught himself to read.

Well, so much for thinking she was an illiterate peasant.