Take your peasant hands from me!

Avoid them, or," his big peasant hand closed in a fist, "squeeze them.

Gloval spread his broad, brown peasant's hands on his knees and looked down at them.

By this time sugar-beet was the only culture to be grown mainly on large estates (and this too largely fell into peasant hands as a result of the Revolution).

He had a big, blond, ruddy Flemish face and huge awkward peasant hands and he moved, with the dishes, as powerfully and awkwardly as a draft horse.

What good is a treasury that expands and contracts like a thousand concertinas because the Holy See subsidizes everything he can put his fat peasant hands on!

They point out that the feudal land and social structure had to be reformed, but that agriculture is still largely in peasant hands and small business is mostly private, if regularly harassed.

A half dozen soldiers from a village a few miles away, graying men in a variety of pieces of uniform, with strong peasant hands and bodies hardened by work, shared one of the huts.

Nevertheless, while the statute was taking shape the nobility were able to reduce the quantity and quality of land in peasant hands and to extract limited amendments to the legislative proposals.

But even the best of tailors couldn't hide the peasant hands and sturdy physique.