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
Between President Coolidge and Mr. Wallace all harmony existed, despite the fact that Mr. Wallace, ever the husbandman, did not share the President's disapproval of the Haugen-McNary bill for farm relief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lo! the husbandman reaping, How through his veins goes the life current leaping!
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
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
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
Only small crumb of comfort the husbandmen had last week: announcements that Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery, Ward were reducing mail-order prices from 10% to 25%.
From Time Magazine Archive
The seed of the cotton shrub is sown by the husbandmen on the same day that they get in the harvest.
From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton
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