The creature befriends an elderly blind peasant.
There are approximately 200 people living in the zone, mostly elderly peasants who defied the government ban to return to their evacuated homesteads.
The journalist had heard about Zoya's execution from an elderly peasant, and was impressed by the young woman's courage.
Gladys is an elderly (and extremely stupid) peasant, fond of telling stories and legends, and hanging out with Barrington.
Even her plaintiffs' group, mostly elderly peasants in eastern and central China, threatens to collapse as its members despair of ever seeing justice in their lifetimes.
It documents an elderly peasant in a village that consists mostly of the old and infirm, as subsequent generations seek their fortunes elsewhere.
They were being driven by an elderly peasant with a long grizzled beard.
There were seven: an elderly peasant and his wife, a pair of peddlers and three young men who might have been woodsmen.
What amazes me is not that two elderly peasants have become invisible, but that Chernobyl itself has, as if it were a subject too awful to contemplate.
As individual and collective incomes rise, these communities are also building hospitals and homes for elderly peasants who lack family support.