husbandman
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How is it that a husbandman and a seamstress follow a similar occupation?
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
He is not just a husbandman of organically raised animals and crops — he has, he says, affection for animals, for place, for “everything” — but a tragic, muck-stained poet as well.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2016
John Hypper was 'playinge Christenmas games' on Boxing Day 1563 at about 6pm with divers other parishioners of Houghton, Hampshire in the house of Thomas Purdew of Houghton, husbandman.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2011
Son of a husbandman, fellow of husbandmen, writer for and teacher of husbandmen, Henry Cantwell Wallace brought to his office a practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thrifty husbandman was more or less dependent for the results of his work on his neighbours, who very likely were not thrifty.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
In Ashford, Kent one day last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Hoover recalled Secretary of Agriculture Hyde from a western trip, announced that the Federal Government would "leave no stone unturned" to give assistance to stricken husbandmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was not the nourishment of herbs and flowers a kind of ministering to his wants? were not the gods in some sort his husbandmen, and spirit-servants?
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
