He was sixty-five, pompous, large, and rubicund -- a "backwoodsman" of a pattern obsolescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Room] Reference
A backwoodsman saw him coming, and ran to meet him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
Hugi wasn't very bright, and a backwoodsman as well. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Their mode of lighting a fire is peculiar to the backwoodsman. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
"He insisted on taking a walk to-day," explained the backwoodsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
The rifle and axe of the backwoodsman, the canoe and the weapons of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
As brave a backwoodsman as ever crossed the Mississippi lies buried there. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Boone was regularly trained in all that made him a successful backwoodsman. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
They said Harrison was indeed a simple backwoodsman, unlike Van Buren the fop. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
He looked like the greenest sort of a backwoodsman when he had his "make-up" on. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Many a professional brother looked on Lincoln as "this rough backwoodsman," unable to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
However, Joyce must refuse to meet "the backwoodsman"; after that they two, Billy and. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
"The blood-thirsty backwoodsman, half horse, half alligator" interrupted Mr Bowsends. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
George Rogers Clark, the bold backwoodsman of Kentucky, captured Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
‘You shall not escape me in this way, you morose backwoodsman,’ retorts Lady Tippins. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
His father was a typical backwoodsman, and young Lincoln grew up among frontier surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference
Mrs. Jameson was married again to a stalwart backwoodsman and became the mother of a large family. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I have frequently heard a long-legged, sallow-looking backwoodsman talk of having come lately from. From Wordnik.com. [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference
In labor or hunting, in traveling by land or water, the axe is ever the companion of the backwoodsman. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The damster, a stalwart brown chieftain of the backwoodsman race, received us with hearty hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
It was the voice of Peter Day, the backwoodsman who had agreed to take care of Arbuckle during his illness. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
It helped that the anti-Confederate faction there was led by a tall, stern backwoodsman named Newton Knight. From Wordnik.com. [Rebelling Against the Rebels] Reference
The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the National Geographic. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph E. Murray - Autobiography] Reference
"Why, Dennis, what would you do were you President?" he asked the raw backwoodsman, turning badly into suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Biologists see the same relationships your average backwoodsman sees, but take them even further into more detail. From Wordnik.com. [David Horton: Animal crackers] Reference
In less than a week everybody is played out; everybody, that is, except a lymphatic, dull-visaged backwoodsman, named. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The reality is that he is a political backwoodsman trying to position himself as a refreshing new deal in leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
The logs were hauled and built into heaps and fire set, and every art the backwoodsman knows was used to make them burn. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
He, too, was well worth looking at, and better worth listening to -- this inspired young backwoodsman, Peter Cartwright. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
So the mountaineer of to-day is the transplanted colonist of the eighteenth century; he is the backwoodsman of the days of Andrew. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
I have a friend, an East Texas backwoodsman, who hunts raccons and squirrels with mountain curs and feists - serious meat and hide dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Working Like a Dog] Reference
"She warn't afraid of the boys, and mebbe that's why the other gals said sharp things about her," pursued the philosophical backwoodsman. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
"Here's two more fellers for the darnse," said the landlord, who was pouring out a glass of spiced cider for a sturdy young backwoodsman who had evidently just arrived. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
I found them, however, doing well, and though I was only a rough sort of a backwoodsman, they seemed mighty glad to see me, however little the quality folks might suppose it. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
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