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
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is regarded as the founder of Kentucky, and in his character, was a good specimen of the early settler, who united in his own person the offices of hunter and husbandman, soldier and statesman.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
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
Last week Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board grew explosively irate because husbandmen were slow to substitute wheat for corn feed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the Middle Ages sturdy husbandmen have grumbled at the tithes which thousands of them still have to pay to the Church of England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the evidence repeatedly furnished by them, there were three orders in Sogdiana and Bactria: priests, warriors, and husbandmen.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
