The Marquess, in fact, while he held obstinately to his fishing rights, prosecuted poachers, enforced the corvee and took toll at every ford, yet laboured to improve his lands, exterminated the wild beasts that preyed on them, helped his peasants in sickness, nourished them in old age and governed them with a paternal tyranny doubtless less insufferable than the negligence of the great land-owners who lived at court.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
Useless works engaged the corvee; the fellaheen were evicted from vast tracts, which became ill-managed estates; and their crops, cattle, and even seed were taken from them by the tax-gatherers, so that they died by hundreds when a low Nile afflicted the land.
"History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)"
S. Rappoport
Allied to this system of land exploitation comes the corvee, or forced labour exacted from the country people for road making.
"Korea's Fight for Freedom"
F.A. McKenzie