However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
English countryfolk, may take our leave of Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
I wanted to show my support for my country, my countryfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Dictating Down to Americans from 9-11 to Iraq] Reference
He and the rest of the countryfolk there seem slightly…off. From Wordnik.com. [Sheitan (2006)] Reference
The Triune told the countryfolk to go home and wait out the bad times. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
He has a high rank -/by winning the hearts and minds/of his countryfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Susanna Speier: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Politiku] Reference
Cattle watering with countryfolk by a cottage in an extensive river landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Bright] Reference
The dusty lines of countryfolk streamed into the gate, afoot and on donkeyback. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
Daily, parties from our armies are ambushed and cut to pieces by the countryfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
Inside the city, the countryfolk poured along a winding avenue toward the palace. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
Or maybe I'm just overly sensitive to the way most of my countryfolk speak English. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Mendes Teaming With Christopher Hampton For Netherland | /Film] Reference
He also had little stomach for serving with a man who had robbed his own countryfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Relentless]
Not so, said the Master: why not take it and give it to thy neighbours and countryfolk?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
Simple countryfolk are all too ready to listen, especially in unsettled times tike these. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
There, out of sight of your people, the countryfolk can engender according to their own customs. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
In fine, if I can't be alone I would rather be with downright countryfolk than with such ultra-cockneys. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
I would like to trust in the goodness of my fellow countryfolk to open their eyes and do the right thing. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown] Reference
The dead man had not been liked by the countryfolk because, as they said, ‘he kept himself to himself’. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
"We estimate that fifteen thousand of General Mint's fifty thousand-odd were countryfolk," Loris continued. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
A decoction of the plant is held in esteem by countryfolk as checking pulmonary consumption in its early stages. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The table had been spread for the mixed midday meal of dinner and tea, which was common among frugal countryfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference
With Candlemas we, like the older English countryfolk, may take our leave of Christmas. posted by John at 1: 33 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Leap Year -- Day] Reference
It has been long held famous among countryfolk as an excellent plant for coughs, asthma, and pulmonary consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
And hardly we reached the further bank when the seasoned countryfolk with me asked me with scarce-concealed smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Pablo Neruda - Nobel Lecture] Reference
They were only ordinary boyish freaks; but they seemed awful to the quiet, sleepy countryfolk who inhabited Endleigh. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
I agree with those who say Cameron should concentrate on pleasing his own countryfolk who are vaguely anti- American. From Wordnik.com. [Cameron & the US] Reference
As South African women in the ANC, you have made us proud as we stand before our countryfolk and nations of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Mayibuye - December 1997] Reference
He says players tend to be rugged countryfolk not the crop-carrying plutocrats that soccer buffs are making them out to be. From Wordnik.com. [In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck] Reference
Dissent has one great charm for all countryfolk -- it gives them a large share in its activities, it allows them to preach and to pray. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Nor could she just sink into blessed idleness, savoring it, or into sleep, as countryfolk were apt to when the rare, brief chance came. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
She wants the same change as Obama, but you seem to have the same misguided knee-jerk reactions to him as our countryfolk on the right. From Wordnik.com. [Stark endorses Obama] Reference
Neither of them want to let our troops come home, and both men regularly lie to their countryfolk about our troops and their mission there. From Wordnik.com. [Resisting Republican Occupations] Reference
We were waited upon by two women, who looked and acted not unlike the countryfolk of New. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
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