rustical
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Shall we, I say, have no recreation? or must our recreations be ever clownish, or childish, consisting merely in rustical efforts, or in petty sleights of bodily strength and activity?
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
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 A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
"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 Father Candide Chalippe
She did not like country company; the rustical society and conversation annoyed her.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Studies Studies, for other be the maners of the rustical, then of the lawyer, of the marchaunte, then of the Soldier, of the shipman then of the phisicion.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt
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