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"Proletarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... passed a resolution expressing "firm confidence that the Soviet Government will succeed in getting peace and so in opening a wide road to the construction of a proletarian state." A note was passed up to Kamenev who, glancing at it, announced that the newly elected representative of the Chinese workmen in Moscow wished to speak. This was Chitaya Kuni, a solid little Chinaman with a big head, in black leather coat and breeches. I had often ...

— Russia in 1919 • Arthur Ransome

... public, general; customary, usual, ordinary, unexceptional, commonplace, inconspicuous, average, mediocre; plebeian, proletarian. ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... seen an irate, proletarian mother cuffing her offspring over an empty wood-box, you may picture perhaps the present proceeding of Big Medicine. To many a man the thing would have been unfeasible, after the first blow, because of the horses. But Big Medicine was very nearly all that he ...

— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... blacksmith has an ingenuity as varied as his experiences. Whereas other picaroes cheat or fight or love their ways, this hero uses his dexterity at unaccustomed trades until it is little less than intoxicating to see him rise to each emergency. He is a proletarian Odysseus, and his history is a quaint Odyssey of the ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... say so," Petkoff murmured. "But, as one colleague to another, tell me: how much longer do you think it will be before the proletarian ...

— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

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