rustic's

Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it thoroughly.

Satyricon 2007

Certainly such a blunder would have been understandable, in the circumstances: Sir Hadrian wore the simple garb of one who made his living grubbing in the dirt of other people's holdings, complete with a rustic's wide-brimmed straw hat.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

A suspicious, defensive look was the only expression on the rustic's face as he rose and peered furtively round to calculate his chances of escape.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

Sweet were they that hallowed the brown hills, and left tokens of their visits, blessing all seasons to the rustic's ear, whispering therein softly at nightfall --

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

Ascyltos, afraid to believe the evidence of his own eyes for fear of doing something rash, approached the man, as a prospective buyer, took the hem of the tunic from the rustic's shoulders, and felt it thoroughly.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Newton looking round and observing neither clouds nor speck on the horizon, jogged on, taking very little notice of the rustic's information.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 Various

That pretty sparkler of our summer evenings, so often made the ploughboy's prize, the only brilliant that glitters in the rustic's hat, the glowworm, (_lampyris noctiluca_,) is not found in such numbers with us, as in many other places, where these signal tapers glimmer upon every grassy bank; yet, in some seasons, we have a reasonable sprinkling of them.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various

He leant over the bannister, and made a grasp at the farmer's collar, but, instead of the collar, he caught the rustic's wig, which came away in his hand.

Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous

But the arable tracts were velvet green with young grain, the verdant level broken here and there by a rustic's hut, under two or three close-standing palms.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

He was a gentle little man, with a manner oddly compounded of the sailor's simplicity and the rustic's bootless cunning, -- for he had followed both walks in his day, -- and was popularly held to be somewhat weak-witted since a fall from the masthead to the decks of the brig _Hyperion_ some years before.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various