rustical
Example Sentences
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The homely sound, likewise, of a rustical hornpipe is more agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Would a real rustical history of hobnails and eighteenpence a day be endurable?
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
The drawing was full of rustical suggestion, touched here and there by a harsh realism that did but heighten the general harmony.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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 Herman Melville
“I am afraid you do not like my name, sir,” says I, annoyed with myself to be annoyed with such a rustical fellow.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
