rustical
Example Sentences
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The homely sound, likewise, of a rustical hornpipe is more agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
The drawing was full of rustical suggestion, touched here and there by a harsh realism that did but heighten the general harmony.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
After these so rustical despightes sũtime foloweth an ague or a paine of ye backe yt neuer cã be remedied.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
To flee the ship in any Peruvian or Chilian port, even the smallest and most rustical, is not unattended with great risk of apprehension, not to speak of jaguars.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
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 Henryk Sienkiewicz
