Sample Sentences for
rustic
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    "Maycomb County Ad Astra Per Aspera." ... "That means," said Mrs. Merriweather, translating for the rustic elements, "from the mud to the stars."  (source)
    rustic = characteristic of a simple life without refined touches (such as knowing Latin)
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    [of a new home] And it's on the rustic side.  (source)
    rustic = simple without refined touches
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    In his recruit's uniform he leans on a round rustic table with legs made of birch branches.  (source)
    rustic = characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches
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    On the afternoon which followed the evening of its release John's rustic solitude was suddenly broken by the arrival overhead of a great swarm of helicopters.  (source)
    rustic = simple and unsophisticated (characteristic of rural life)
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    In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.†  (source)
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    Tom and Adolph assisted to get him composed for the night, the latter in high spirits, evidently regarding the matter as a good joke, and laughing heartily at the rusticity of Tom's horror, who really was simple enough to lie awake most of the rest of the night, praying for his young master.†  (source)
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    When he'd read a little way into that tale of a shipwrecked family which finds happiness by living rustically on an island, Katy thought to herself, "Uh-oh."†  (source)
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    The little rusticities and awkwardnesses which had at first made grievous inroads on the tranquillity of all, and not least of herself, necessarily wore away, and she was no longer materially afraid to appear before her uncle, nor did her aunt Norris's voice make her start very much.†  (source)
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    Perhaps, like the white-lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her "rustic" efforts.  (source)
    rustic = characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches
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    They put on, over their savage lives, the raiment of society, going diligently through the forms and conventions, and thinking, "now, we are like all other families"; but they were timid and shy and stiff, like rustics dressed in evening-clothes.†  (source)
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    The Americans never use the word "peasant," because they have no idea of the peculiar class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved amongst them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.†  (source)
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    The dining room, rustically furnished and nicely heated, was likewise located upstairs.†  (source)
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    The word 'rustic' doesn't quite do the place justice.  (source)
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