ruralist

Example Sentences

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But in recent weeks, da Silva has sought allies in the powerful ruralist bloc in Brazil’s Congress.

From Washington Times • Aug. 7, 2022

In Congress, a large coalition known as the ruralist bloc has championed scores of measures to ease access to minerals and potential farmland in protected areas.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2018

He was a type of the southern ruralist, broad, flapping straw hat, home-woven shirt, cottonade trousers, one suspender.

From Old Ebenezer by Read, Opie Percival

I have been ruralist enough to harbour thoughts of the extent to which the woods are raided for all this New Year forestry.

From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by Scott, J.W. Robertson

Ah! welcome, through autumnal mist, For each returning ruralist, Waif metropolitan, to list Thy tinkle unto.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir