farmer-like

He was so familiar, so everyday, so farmer-like, that I felt right at home with him at once.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

I'll be so farmer-like I'll have to start wearing overalls and adopt 37 barn cats.

Operation Wipe Out Farmer Tan Jay 2007

I'll be so farmer-like I'll have to start wearing overalls and adopt 37 barn cats.

Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007

And following this he had been called to carry the three bags and two umbrellas of an aged farmer-like couple, who had engaged a parlor, bedroom and bath on the fifth floor.

An American Tragedy 2004

Gradually, however, being a very human if simple person, he came to be very proud of it — boasted in Wichita of Rita and her artist husband, invited them home to astound the neighbors during the summer-time, and the fall brought his almost farmer-like wife on to see them and to enjoy trips, sight-seeing, studio teas.

The Titan 2004

After a service at the “Tabernacle” he was introduced to Brigham Young, a farmer-like man of 45, who evinced much interest in the Tanganyika journey and discussed stock, agriculture and religion; but when Burton asked to be admitted as a

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

But the lady was not in an ill temper with everybody -- certainly not with the stolid farmer-like man who was plodding his way through a rumpsteak washed down by small beer.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

The coffee shop was divided into boxes and the farmer-like man was seated in one near the door which opened into the kitchen.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

The Senator's manner of speech was slow, considerate, -- indeed, sometimes approaching awkwardness in its plain, farmer-like simplicity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

This plain farmer-like simile has given great offence, and perhaps justly, to the high and refined notions of certain book gentry; who have been too much in the habit of _hunting_ an

A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen" An Elector