mossback

Example Sentences

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In true mossback fashion, he bought a plot of land on a particularly damp section of the island because he loved the rain.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023

As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the passengers, most railroaders are mossback operators who neglect service while engaging in a never-ending round of raising fares, chopping schedules and eliminating branch lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rausch's six-month rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Then again, perhaps you noticed that the old mossback headed downstream; and so the chances are the fish might be scared away for some distance."

From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by Rathborne, St. George