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
Here the shovel and the mattock, the plough and the harrow, go forth to ease the labors of the husbandman.
From Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." by John Quincy Adams
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
In southern Illinois, Mrs. McCormick found husbandmen, after lean years, interested chiefly in farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court.
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 animal to be offered in sacrifice, was led around the fields, the husbandmen and country rustics following with shouts and songs.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
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