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
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the descendants of the "field" and the "husbandman," Philo has already mentioned Misor, i. e.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
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
Since the Middle Ages sturdy husbandmen have grumbled at the tithes which thousands of them still have to pay to the Church of England.
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
Most of these hungry citizens were white; had been fairly prosperous husbandmen until last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Operatives cutting down trees, navvies shovelling ballast upon the railway track, farmers plowing their fields, husbandmen pruning their orchards, stopped work and saluted or shouted a welcome as the train went by.
From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan
