rustical

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"I am afraid you do not like my name, sir," says I, annoyed with myself to be annoyed with such a rustical fellow.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Mr. Mockmode! what a rustical expression that is!

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

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

To flee the ship in any Peruvian or Chilian port, even the smallest and most rustical, is not unattended with great risk of apprehension, not to speak of jaguars.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

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 Hildebrandt, Herbert William