mujik
Britishnoun
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But this strategy of massed-force-cum-surprise had two flaws: it overestimated the value of the tank-plane team; it underestimated the value of the grey, sturdy, patient Russian mujik as a military weapon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet this mujik was now a first-rate soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in Russia even the mujik has constantly a temperature of nearly 77° in his cabin in the very height of winter, which he obtains in a very simple and economical manner.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
"There is surely the landmark of which the mujik spoke, and the peasant woman's dwelling cannot be far off."
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
The Count was in prison, therefore, on the eve of his return to splendour, and his companion in captivity was Dumnoff the mujik.
From A Cigarette-Maker's Romance by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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