husbandman
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How is it that a husbandman and a seamstress follow a similar occupation?
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
He is not just a husbandman of organically raised animals and crops — he has, he says, affection for animals, for place, for “everything” — but a tragic, muck-stained poet as well.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2016
John Hypper was 'playinge Christenmas games' on Boxing Day 1563 at about 6pm with divers other parishioners of Houghton, Hampshire in the house of Thomas Purdew of Houghton, husbandman.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2011
There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above the idol are the following words in Chinese, cut in the stone and gilt, "The divine husbandman and sacred ruler!" and thereafter, "For all ages the instructive teacher."
In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
In Ashford, Kent one day last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale.
From Time Magazine Archive
In southern Illinois, Mrs. McCormick found husbandmen, after lean years, interested chiefly in farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court.
From Time Magazine Archive
John A. Bunnell of the Chicago Board of Trade, demanding action by the Board to protect U. S. husbandmen from alleged Soviet price manipulation.
From Time Magazine Archive
I also begged the rector to explain the matter to them and spoke with a few of the older husbandmen.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
