gentleman-farmer

I'm pretty certain that part, if not most of the hesitancy of one of the first Chosen Ones, Moses, was a private ambition of the life of a gentleman-farmer.

Chosen ones 2009

Agricultural improvement societies were formed in local communities to promote agricultural innovations among the gentleman-farmer class.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Heowed his brains, not to his father, a Prussian officer and unsuccessful gentleman-farmer, but to his mother.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

An ordinary gentleman-farmer will be satisfied with looking at his fields once or twice a day: an enthusiastical farmer will be constantly employed on them; will have his mind earnestly engaged; will talk perpetually of them.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

“A little bluffness, Mr. Forsyte,” he said, “a little bluffness,” and after he had spoken he laughed firmly, closed his lips tight, and scratched his head just below where he had pushed his wig back, for all the world like the gentleman-farmer for whom he loved to be taken.

The Man of Property 2004

And his farming was well done; for though he was, out-and-out, a gentleman-farmer, he knew how to get the full worth in work done for the fourteen shillings a week which he paid to his labourers, — a deficiency in which knowledge is the cause why gentlemen in general find farming so expensive an amusement.

The American Senator 2004