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
There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old writer on agriculture says that there are seasons when if the husbandman misses a day he falls a whole year behind.
From One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Alexander, Arch.
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
Most of these hungry citizens were white; had been fairly prosperous husbandmen until last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Despite the claims of Grain Corp. officials that this organization was going forward satisfactorily, there were new evidences last week that many husbandmen, always individualistic, were hostile to such groups.
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 Ruskin, John
