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
Those improvements in husbandry, too, which the progress of arts and manufacturers necessarily introduces, leave the husbandman as little leisure as the artificer.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
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
Defeated in politics, he went exploring through South America, where he hit upon the idea of establishing a colony of U. S. husbandmen in Bolivia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear the virus would be tracked in.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been put to good account by the millers, who have established themselves here, and in its small way adds to the blessings of the Michigan husbandmen on its shores.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.
