The chief causes of the rise of the serf were the following:
2
But the same could be said of every serf in the kingdom.
3
In 1220, scarcely a serf was to be found in all Flanders.
4
Apparently a lot harder than a feudal serf of the Ancien Regime.
5
He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
1
A ditch-full of witches could not bring such tokens to a villein.
2
And if he be a villein, he shall lose his right hand.
3
The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
4
There will no longer be servants or masters, or villein or lord.
5
The master of a household was responsible for every villein in his household.
Ús de helot en anglès
1
Explain the following terms: oracle; amphictyony; helot; Hellas; Olympiad; and ephors.
2
This is not the middle ages; I am an Englishman, not a helot.
3
Am I a helot, that you should offer to buy my very soul?
4
He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.
5
The lot of the negro slave, compared with that of the Irish helot, was happiness itself.
6
And no helot, either.
7
We have likened the Norman to the Spartan, and, most of all, he was like him in his scorn of the helot.
8
The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.
9
Little by little, he had become to his wife so indulgent and so affectionate, that the poor helot felt her heart touched.
10
It were making a helot of a free man, and you do not love me, Fanfulla, if you drive this argument further.
11
The hideous, helot-like uniform of the German private hung loosely on their shoulders, and the color of their skin was unhealthy and greenish.
12
She has all the satisfaction of knowing better, without the turmoil of competition, a fact which distinguishes the superior spirit from the struggling helot.
13
On all hands Mr. Drury could see the evidence of a master conspiracy against the farmer, who was to become the helot of civilization.
14
Is Alcman the helot who revealed, to the Ephors, the gigantic plots of his master just when those plots were on the eve of execution?
15
Yet their force, including the Tegeans and helots, was fifty-three thousand men.
16
Why, just a narrow, jealous race-hatred which makes helots of British men.