yeoman

One might prefer the selfless virtue exemplified by Washington, the yeoman simplicity imagined by Jefferson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Coast Guard, serving as a yeoman first class from 1955 to 1959 before coming to the Pacific Northwest to pursue his education.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

And that was at a time when the main military bullwork of the country was the militia, these part-time, yeoman farmers.

From Slate ● May 3, 2023

A decade later, after what colleagues and constituents called the senator’s yeoman service as an advocate on health and environmental issues, a hidden side of Mr. Durenberger began to surface.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

Part of each day was spent with Adam the yeoman shooting at a mark.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

No banks equivalent to those that proliferated in 18th-century England existed in America, and many hoped a republic of yeomen farmers could do without them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Federalists, typified by Manhattanite Alexander Hamilton, desired a restless, churning urban nation and opposed the Jeffersonian vision of a republic of rural yeomen.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Their style of play was seen to be "clumsy and oafish... like that of medieval yeomen".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2020

Miscreant yeomen who poached a swan egg, or harassed nesting swans, or — heaven forbid — ate a swan could be punished by a year and a day in jail.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018

When the portcullis of the outer bailey of the castle was raised to admit the yeomen, the townspeople swarmed in.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli