The stranger often took him for a "hayseed," but on further acquaintance opened his mouth in astonishment, for Soc. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping up with Lizzie] Reference
I jokingly called Salome a "hayseed" when she emerged from her shelter, for her brown hair was sprinkled with wisps of straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Story of Abner Stone] Reference
'At best we won't get much out of one surly hayseed. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
He said come on old hayseed, take a drink, it's mine. From Wordnik.com. [Wish I Had Stayed in the Wagon Yard] Reference
Is that possible for an Italian hayseed with no Greek?. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
These hayseed are such a bunch of pretend hard-on guys. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 18, 2010] Reference
Real bony, scrawny, hayseed looking fellow but a lot of heart. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0354. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Mr. WATSON: As the old-timers used to say, a hayseed for sure. From Wordnik.com. [Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul] Reference
Dean Stillwell, the sheriff of Crow Ridge, looked pure hayseed. From Wordnik.com. [A Maiden's Grave]
( "A first-grade hayseed!" raved a critic at The New York Times.). From Wordnik.com. [June 2004] Reference
"Better give it up as a bad job, old hayseed," said another voice. From Wordnik.com. [A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods] Reference
As I remember, an Italian hayseed with no Greek was how you put it. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
I could see that the hayseed was suitably impressed by the rigmarole. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
I still am and I'm still sort of a hayseed when I come to Washington. From Wordnik.com. [My Times: Adventures in the News Trade] Reference
To and fro across the slippery hayseed the antagonists battled, raising. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He is here on official business, but he is a yokel and I do mean hayseed. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
Boldin had the look of a provincial hayseed, but he was simple like a fox. From Wordnik.com. [The Coup Makers' Secrets] Reference
Carol flung herself on him, her clenching hand on his hayseed-dusty shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
And I had hayseed in my hair, and I think Rock had a little in his hair, too. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2004] Reference
They are the antithesis of hayseed yokels who don't know what the country needs. From Wordnik.com. [Town and Country - Adams and Jefferson] Reference
Since you are a backward Italian hayseed with no Greek, I shall tell you a little story. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
She is also smartish, though not book-smart, and pretty funny in a dopey hayseed sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Conniff: Is Sarah Palin Hot?] Reference
Kit just looked at him, embarrassed, almost apologetic in fact, and the hayseed shook his head. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
Still not totally comfortable with the psuedo-western, 19th Century hayseed/Asian language thing. From Wordnik.com. [Friday Ramblings] Reference
Why, they were a greasy foreigner, a jumped-up favor currier, and an Italian hayseed with no Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
And that could be classified as a great triumph for Gaius Marius, the Italian hayseed with no Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
That I — a patrician Cornelius! — am less than the dust compared to you, an Italian hayseed with no Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
But mine's a hayseed, daughter of a friend of Aunt Nell's up from the country for the very first time in her life!. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
But the clothes suited her, or rather they framed her in a pleasing way, suggested rude health and hayseed sensuality. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
He, Gaius Marius from Arpinum, the despised Italian hayseed with no Greek, would be consul of the greatest city in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
One was a failed farmer, in a time when that role was losing its value, becoming more commonly described as hick, rube, hayseed. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Medlock: Where Are the Voice of -- and for -- the Poor?] Reference
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