rustical

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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

"He is of a rustical cut, I know not how; he doth not carry himself like a gentleman of fashion."

From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan

Neither is he very happy in trees, and such rustical produce; or, rather, we should say, he is very original, his trees being decidedly of his own make and composition, not imitated from any master.

From George Cruikshank by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Troth, nor I; he is of a rustical cut, I know not how: he doth not carry himself like a gentleman of fashion.

From Every Man in His Humor by Jonson, Ben

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