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
To many a husbandman this seemed a long and risky way round to the "cheap money" he had been promised.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sismondi sufficiently sets forth the advantages of this over all other systems of leasing and underletting, as it allows the husbandman a well-being in direct proportion to the thoroughness and persistency of his labors.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
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
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks.
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
Last week Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board grew explosively irate because husbandmen were slow to substitute wheat for corn feed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pan presided over husbandmen; Hermes, over thieves, &c.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
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