rustical

Example Sentences

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Never, I vow, was a man so overcome with the society in which he found himself as this rustical clown of a justice.

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.

Would a real rustical history of hobnails and eighteenpence a day be endurable?

From The Virginians 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

She did not like country company; the rustical society and conversation annoyed her.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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 by Reade, Charles