rustical

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The wayfarer who wends through this rustical district will hardly fail to observe the prevailing taste for lightning-rods.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

But accost them with honest freedom, and with that customary, and though rustical, most gracious proffer, of the kissed hand, and they withhold neither their hands in turn nor their acquaintance in an honest way.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles

"A rustical holiness," St. Jerome remarks, "is more valuable than vicious learning and criminal eloquence."

From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Chalippe, Father Candide

Ladislaus blushed a little from fear that the young Englishwoman and his refined female relatives might judge him too rustical, but they glanced at him with a certain sympathy.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Valiant and most rustical Audacity," said the Southron knight, "to no man on earth could you have put a question on the code of honour, who was more capable of rendering you a reason.

From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir