Example Sentences

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When I was a poor newspaper moujik in Chicago 15 years ago I quit one day and announced I was out to make a million.

From Time Magazine Archive

The moment its prestige is gone, and the moujik feels the pinch of famine, our chance will come.”

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

It is a proverb on the lips of every moujik in Petersburg that all Russia obeys the Czar, and the Czar obeys the Tchin.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

"He is too much of a moujik," Katya said.

From Verotchka's Tales by Siberiak, Mamin

As we returned, I saw in the town something which recalled this story in more than one moujik, who, well wrapped up, lay sleeping in the open air, under the lee of a house. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey