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  • It was a rustic cabin with wood paneling everywhere, high ceilings, and an astonishing variety of animal heads on the walls.†   (source)
  • Recent big-budget films all have rustic themes.†   (source)
  • He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.†   (source)
  • It was full of lush, tall pines, acres of rustic family-run farms, and the cutest foxes and bunnies.†   (source)
  • A few of the shepherds offered more humble, rustic presents; one of the shepherds gave the Christ Child a bird's nest.†   (source)
  • It seemed excessively rustic, even for Cairnholm.†   (source)
  • It's rustic, all right.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • They could all hear the clock ticking in the corner, the one my mother had called our "rustic colonial clock."†   (source)
  • It's a farm-looking building they call La Grange — you know, all milkmaid and fake rustic.†   (source)
  • Others offer to carry purchases of fruits and vegetables from stall to stall in rustic wooden wheelbarrows in exchange for tips.†   (source)
  • I like the area just north of there in the Sierra foothills, so I begin looking at houses in Auburn, a gold-rush town with a rustic, old-fashioned downtown.†   (source)
  • Some passages were rustic, adorned with nothing but their modest masonry, while others were more like the hallways in a castle or museum, with tapestries, framed antique maps, and oil paintings hanging from the walls.†   (source)
  • Father had put up an altar made of palm leaves in front, which looked presentable in a rustic way, but you could still see black char and stains on the floor from the fire they made on our first night here, for the welcome feast.†   (source)
  • The check-in counter is faux rustic; the employees all wear cowboy hats and five-pointed stars with their names embossed on them.†   (source)
  • But little by little he let himself be conquered by rusticity, and came to accept the fact that he had no calling as a dandy, especially since there was no one to appreciate his efforts.†   (source)
  • But my name, Pan ...originally it meant rustic.†   (source)
  • When their luck was good they found some roadside inn that served rustic food which she refused to eat, and rented them canvas cots stained with rancid perspiration and urine.†   (source)
  • Hedeby is a rustic place, well worth a visit.†   (source)
  • Both sexes were garbed in rustic tunics of green and brown, fringed with dusky colors of orange, russet, and gold.†   (source)
  • He'd left for Europe a few weeks later, calling her now and then from rustic pensions or tiny hotels by the sea.†   (source)
  • A small rustic wooden house, far away on the other side of a desert field; in the foreground, a split-rail fence; a few equine shapes between the fence and the house.†   (source)
  • We opened for business end of I953—" But the expected huntsmen did not materialize, and though ordinary tourists-the few that trickle along the highway-now and again paused to photograph the beyond-belief rusticity of Trapper's Den Lodge, they seldom stopped overnight.†   (source)
  • We passed a rustic sign reading, Red Stevens Home for Boys.†   (source)
  • Sitting in his rustic office pulling Saran Wrap off the chicken sandwich his wife packed for his lunch and he drapes the wrap absent-mindedly around his finger.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 'I won't take the valve apart now,' he said, and began taking it apart, working with slow, tireless, interminable precision, his rustic, ungainly face bent very close to the floor, picking painstakingly at the minute mechanism in his fingers with such limitless, plodding concentration that he seemed scarcely to be thinking of it at all.†   (source)
  • The men I saw were not rustic heroes, just criminals, stealing from nature.†   (source)
  • It has everything modern, but it's made to look very rustic.†   (source)
  • Sam Gamgee was sitting in one corner near the fire, and opposite him was Ted Sandyman, the miller's son; and there were various other rustic hobbits listening to their talk.†   (source)
  • He was seen as the representative American, the rustic sage from the wilds of Pennsylvania (quite apart from the fact that he had lived sixteen years in London), and he agreeably played the part.†   (source)
  • Oil is not used on the islands, and he claims he might consider starting a small business there, but these islands are said to be rustic and quite taken to debauchery and even open fornication, and I don't know whether to believe this or not.†   (source)
  • He handled it poorly when, one cold afternoon in early spring, on their way to Yosemite, she suggested they splurge and stay at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel, a grand WPA-era jewel of rustic western architecture.†   (source)
  • cottage, whiter still in the moonlight, and on down the road with its sloping and turning, paralleling the black powerhouse with its engines droning earth-shaking rhythms in the dark, its windows red from the glow of the furnace, on to where the road became a bridge over a dry riverbed, tangled with brush and clinging vines; the bridge of rustic logs, made for trysting, but virginal and untested by lovers; on up the road, past the buildings, with the southern verandas half-a-city-block long, to the sudden forking, barren of buildings, birds, or grass, where the road turned off to the insane asylum.†   (source)
  • He was at the side of the rustic restaurant, a row of small windows running the length of the building, flickering candles beyond the glass illuminating the figures of the diners.†   (source)
  • He strove to make the ranch, called Ridgewood, a model of rustic self-sufficiency, complete with massive herds of cattle and sheep, several hundred horses, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, and fruit orchards.†   (source)
  • She redecorated the musty, cofferceilinged mansion with watercolor landscapes, reupholstered the sofas with rustic fabrics, and discarded the cretonne drapes in favor of sliding glass doors that invited the morning light.†   (source)
  • Like many hip restaurants, it feels as if someone spent a lot of time and money to make it look rustic and down-trodden.†   (source)
  • The cabin was pretty rustic and didn't even have indoor plumbing.†   (source)
  • A few weeks ago I noticed that the gold-leaf lettering I ordered when the town required all the village shops to put up the same rustic style of sign is now quite chipped and dull, and needs refurbishing.†   (source)
  • Its furnishings were rustic and sparse.†   (source)
  • He was a benign figure, a little rustic, and his hair was white.†   (source)
  • With the loutish, swollen, barely comprehensible diction I had heard bubble up out of the tonsils of all sorts of down-home rustics, he embarked on an improvisation so crazily funny and so deadly precise and obscene that in my own hilarity I quite forgot that it all involved those people whom he had been flaying only moments before with unpitying and humorless rage.†   (source)
  • Rustic manners, forest manners, in a setting not of the forest.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, like the white-lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her "rustic" efforts.   (source)
  • The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the "country bumpkins" and "rustic belles" in the audience,   (source)
  • He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared.†   (source)
  • And in that case, Vanger said, a period of rustic life would do young Blomkvist some good.†   (source)
  • Breniz, who sells rustic chairs door to door, tried to mask the terror he felt inside.†   (source)
  • That night they dined at a rustic table made of planks, their meal lit by a kerosene lamp.†   (source)
  • Probably the most rustic place you will ever visit.†   (source)
  • We went through my aunt's room, which was even more rustic than mine, then into the kitchen.†   (source)
  • A rustic and weathered Victorian, the clinic building appeared less like an office than a home.†   (source)
  • ' 'No,' said Frodo, feeling strangely rustic and untutored.†   (source)
  • The room Natalie entered was rustic and quaint.†   (source)
  • Mortenson took immediately to the rustic town, at the foot of the wild Gallatin Range.†   (source)
  • Thanks to her the floors of tamped earth, the unwhitewashed mud walls, the rustic, wooden furniture they had built themselves were always dean, and the old chests where they kept their clothes exhaled the warm smell of basil.†   (source)
  • On the ground floor was the Passenger Section, with a waiting room that had rustic benches and a counter for selling tickets and handling baggage.†   (source)
  • Around the rustic table placed in the center of a patched circus tent where the delegates sat were the last officers who were faithful to Colonel Aureliano Buendia.†   (source)
  • They used to claim it was a campground, tried to design the franchise with a rustic motif, but the customers kept chopping up those log-and-plank signs and wooden picnic tables and using them for cooking fires.†   (source)
  • She detested the rosary at dusk, the affected table etiquette, the constant criticism of the way she held her silverware, the way she walked in mystical strides like a woman of the streets, the way she dressed as if she were in the circus, and even the rustic way she treated her husband and nursed her child without covering her breast with her mantilla.†   (source)
  • He sells the few things he owns: his bed, a gift from his mother; his leather jacket, a gift from his dead uncle; his rustic armoire, where he hangs his clothes.†   (source)
  • It was a rustic structure made of horizontal dark-stained timber with a tile roof and green frames, and with a small porch at the front door.†   (source)
  • Rustic enough out there for you?†   (source)
  • Even after the mediation of her son, who was dumbfounded by so many different requests, Fermina Daza was firm in her rustic notion that the dead belong only to the family, and that the vigil would be kept at home, with mountain coffee and fritters and everyone free to weep for him in any way they chose.†   (source)
  • Rustic.†   (source)
  • Very, very rustic.†   (source)
  • It's a landlocked and impoverished country with an agrarian economy that exports excellent coffee and tea and not much else — a land of dwindling forests that still has lovely rustic landscapes.†   (source)
  • They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.†   (source)
  • She was not the Francophile her lather was, not a homebody like her mother, and although she adored her brothers, not the rustic, plainspoken folk they were.†   (source)
  • Low-slung brown leather couches with modern lines were coupled with a rustic coffee table on a cow-skin rug.†   (source)
  • The place was one-story, southern rustic, and at least a hundred years old, but kept in relatively good repair.†   (source)
  • Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, which sits in the mountains of rural, redneck California, is rustic by anyone's standards.†   (source)
  • At the marina, gulls circled and sounded their calls as people carried coolers to their sailboats, and he jogged past a rustic bait shop.†   (source)
  • He spent the night at a motel in Ocracoke, woke when the white ball of light rose over the water, had an early breakfast, and then spent the next few hours walking through the rustic village, watching people ready their homes for the storm brewing off the coast.†   (source)
  • Jason scanned the room as best he could; it was typically rustic, a profusion of browns and reds, from dark furniture to checkered curtains, comfortable and masculine, a man's cabin in the country.†   (source)
  • Mary Burns said that many years ago there were a number of people in the neighborhood who kept horses, and that you could see them on the weekends strutting up Mountview, fathers and daughters in rustic dress setting out for a day-long ride.†   (source)
  • Resigned, she sipped her coffee and replaced the elegant cup in the elegant saucer, annoyed that it was not one of the simple pottery mugs favored by David and her in their rustic country kitchen in Maine.†   (source)
  • But in the Bree-land, at any rate, the hobbits were decent and prosperous, and no more rustic than most of their distant relatives Inside.†   (source)
  • Finding it difficult to get started again in the law, feeling like a stranger, and bored with what work he had, he toyed with the thought of giving it up and striking out for a life of "rustic independence" in the wilds of upstate New York, an idea encouraged by his brother-in-law Colonel Smith and that appealed at once to brother Thomas.†   (source)
  • In the front of the room, Elleguá, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes.†   (source)
  • For the most part, he led a simple life and dreamed of throwing up a rustic little shack like the kind he'd seen in the Florida Keys, something with lots of character that appeared a hundred years old on the outside but was surprisingly bright and roomy on the inside.†   (source)
  • It might have been some object of my own past, some augury in reverse, stately rustic and high-ceilinged and mothballed in the unused rooms, with thick scratchy blankets on the guest beds, bearing college emblems—the promise of things I'd never had but somehow seemed to know, collectively, at the edge of memory.†   (source)
  • We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.†   (source)
  • He did not relish the idea of singing any song of the Shire to the Lord of Minas Tirith, certainly not the comic ones that he knew best; they were too, well, rustic for such an occasion.†   (source)
  • Your lordship asked for kingsfoil, as the rustics name it, he said; or athelas in the noble tongue, or to those who know somewhat of the Valinorean....' 'I do so,' said Aragorn, 'and I care not whether you say now asea aranion or kingsfoil, so long as you have some.†   (source)
  • And the trip was barely beyond the city limits at that—to a peaceful rustic house in Rockland County barely half an hour by car north of the George Washington Bridge.†   (source)
  • After that, it sang Home Sweet Home and The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill.†   (source)
  • Let us sing to 'ee again, sweet Measter Brock, concerning thic there rustic mill?†   (source)
  • The yard was wide and green and scattered about it were rustic iron benches, an iron summerhouse, fashionably called a "gazebo" which, Scarlett had been assured, was of pure Gothic design, and two large iron statues, one a stag and the other a mastiff as large as a Shetland pony.†   (source)
  • It also sang, without pausing for a moment between the songs, Home Sweet Home and The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill.†   (source)
  • Sleep I sing—I, who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a dog barks, a bell tinkles, or wheels crunch upon the gravel.†   (source)
  • But again, what was remarkable considering the Duckworth strain —so boorish, so rustic, so philistine—is that however simple she was in brain, she was not, as George's sister might so well have been, a cheery ordinary English upper middle class girl with rosy cheeks and bright brown eyes.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • They would hear of his doings though, of how in the next summer after he removed to the country he invaded a protracted al fresco church revival being held in a nearby grove and turned it into a week of amateur horse racing while to a dwindling congregation gaunt, fanaticfaced country preachers thundered anathema from the rustic pulpit at his oblivious and unregenerate head.†   (source)
  • I don't want to hurt you, but if you behave like a frantic rustic, I must.†   (source)
  • He drew the girls to the rustic seat Dale had built for them under the big pine.†   (source)
  • The small alcove space held a bed and a rustic chair.†   (source)
  • She was quite a long way removed from the rusticity that was his.†   (source)
  • She was the more rustic in her effort to appear urban.†   (source)
  • He was as intent upon this job as if he had been a rustic.†   (source)
  • And suppose your Terry Wickett should marry some waitress or some incredibly stupid rustic?†   (source)
  • The dining room, rustically furnished and nicely heated, was likewise located upstairs.†   (source)
  • She felt rustic in this once familiar city, after a year and a half of Gopher Prairie.†   (source)
  • How proud you are of that homely rustic metaphor!†   (source)
  • The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered rusticity.†   (source)
  • With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.†   (source)
  • Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see.†   (source)
  • But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds.†   (source)
  • The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.†   (source)
  • His robust aplomb had fascinated the rustics.†   (source)
  • she's gone clane enough," said some rustics near the door.†   (source)
  • Even today, tickets and ticket-clipping are dark oppression to Indian rustics.†   (source)
  • She made her little rustic curtsy, and held the door wide for them to enter.†   (source)
  • It is only that!" he said, speaking in a homely, rustic way and with great vehemence.†   (source)
  • The fellow is as handsome a rustic as need be seen.†   (source)
  • At these words the rustic let go the lancet-case he was twisting between his fingers.†   (source)
  • On poor, foolish Clifford, gaunt Hepzibah, and rustic little Phoebe!†   (source)
  • The goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.†   (source)
  • Have you ever seen a real English rustic perform a solo dance?†   (source)
  • Coppenole, with his tranquil and rustic countenance, made the king approach the window.†   (source)
  • Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?†   (source)
  • The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic recollections.†   (source)
  • These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion.†   (source)
  • As the Handsome Sailor, Billy Budd's position aboard the seventy-four was something analogous to that of a rustic beauty transplanted from the provinces and brought into competition with the highborn dames of the court.†   (source)
  • A little group of Indian ladies had been gathering in a third quarter of the grounds, near a rustic summer-house in which the more timid of them had already taken refuge.†   (source)
  • One evening while Farquhar and his wife were sitting on a rustic bench near the entrance to his grounds, a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water.†   (source)
  • He spoke the words softly to himself, trying to imitate the guttural and sober rustic dialect of these mountain men; and he kept climbing for some distance beyond the hut, determined to reach the tree line.†   (source)
  • She had found that staple groceries, sugar, flour, could be most cheaply purchased at Axel Egge's rustic general store.†   (source)
  • She was, however, only an untrained Yorkshire rustic who had been brought up in a moorland cottage with a swarm of little brothers and sisters who had never dreamed of doing anything but waiting on themselves and on the younger ones who were either babies in arms or just learning to totter about and tumble over things.†   (source)
  • These, for the moment, took the shape of assuming a dress somewhat more rustic and summerlike in style than the garment she had first selected, and rustling downstairs, sunshade in hand, with the disengaged air of a lady in quest of exercise.†   (source)
  • When I tell you besides that Jim with his own hands had worked at the rustic fence, you will perceive directly the difference, the individual side of the story.†   (source)
  • The next afternoon he was in the pretty little park by one, and had found a rustic bench beneath the green leaves of a lilac bush which bordered one of the paths.†   (source)
  • They were rustics, living in a constricted valley, interested only in one another and in The Building.†   (source)
  • In spite of the light brown dustcoat and leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Scotland Yard.†   (source)
  • How simple and rustic, in comparison with these, would seem the dog-roses which, in a few weeks' time, would be climbing the same hillside path in the heat of the sun, dressed in the smooth silk of their blushing pink bodices, which would be undone and scattered by the first breath of wind.†   (source)
  • They rattled like hero and heroine of a sticky tale, like sweat-shop operatives, like bouncing rustics, like prince and princess.†   (source)
  • At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, made no collection, refused the halfpence offered them; and the people around could not understand the conduct of this rustic fiddler, who tramped the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven.†   (source)
  • Rustic: 'That thing a nose?†   (source)
  • There was revealed a terrace, such as is owned by many villas with trees each side of it, and on it a little rustic seat, and two flower-beds.†   (source)
  • Yet such was the force of example that the village young men, who had not hastened to enter the gate while no intruder was in the way, now dropped in quickly, and soon the couples became leavened with rustic youth to a marked extent, till at length the plainest woman in the club was no longer compelled to foot it on the masculine side of the figure.†   (source)
  • I agree with you that it's amusing to be rustic in town, and if you like I'll meet you there, and we'll go and feed the squirrels, and you shall take me out on the lake in the steam-gondola.†   (source)
  • On my right I could see across the cornfields the two crocketed, rustic spires of Saint-Andre-des-Champs, themselves as tapering, scaly, plated, honeycombed, yellowed, and roughened as two ears of wheat.†   (source)
  • He was to share a room at the Hotel Sedgwick with W. A. Rogers, that shrewd, rustic-looking Zenith dealer in farm-lands.†   (source)
  • Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies—began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.†   (source)
  • To any stray inheritor of these primitive qualities found, like Caspar Hauser, wandering dazed in any Christian capital of our time, the good-natured poet's famous invocation, near two thousand years ago, of the good rustic out of his latitude in the Rome of the Cesars, still appropriately holds:— "Honest and poor, faithful in word and thought, What has thee, Fabian, to the city brought?†   (source)
  • Vilbert was an itinerant quack-doctor, well known to the rustic population, and absolutely unknown to anybody else, as he, indeed, took care to be, to avoid inconvenient investigations.†   (source)
  • I thought—any man would have thought—that by giving up all ambition to win a wife with social standing, with fortune, with knowledge of the world, I should secure rustic innocence as surely as I should secure pink cheeks; but—However, I am no man to reproach you, and I will not.†   (source)
  • me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper), because of which I used to go forward into the church when we were making our way to our chairs as into a fairy-haunted valley, where the rustic sees with amazement on a rock, a tree, a marsh, the tangible proofs of the little people's supernatural passage—all these things made of the church for me something entirely different from the rest of the town; a building which occupied, so to speak, four dimensions of space—the name of the fourth being Time—which had sailed the centuries wit†   (source)
  • He was cordial; he invited Martin to step out for a dish of tea as though he almost meant it; but beside him Martin felt young, rustic, inept.†   (source)
  • Three days later, in the evening, when the sun was going down in splendour over the lowlands of Blackmoor, and making the Shaston windows like tongues of fire to the eyes of the rustics in that vale, the sick man fancied that he heard somebody come to the house, and a few minutes after there was a tap at the bedroom door.†   (source)
  • up a magical fluctuation of colorful stars and arabesques; and finally, a little rotating drum in which you placed a strip of cinematographic film and then looked through an opening on one side to watch a miller wrestle with a chimney sweep, a schoolmaster paddle a pupil, a tightrope-walker do somersaults, or a farmer and his wife dance a rustic waltz.†   (source)
  • From this point the driver turned back along the creek, passed between orchards and fields, and drove along the base of the red wall to come suddenly upon a large rustic house that had been hidden from Carley's sight.†   (source)
  • He was a thin, rustic-faced young man with gold spectacles and a bang of dull brown hair, but when he hurled himself into oratory he glowed with power.†   (source)
  • These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.†   (source)
  • Thus it came to pass that in the Sunday Advocate-Times, under a picture of Dr. Drew at his earnestest, with eyes alert, jaw as granite, and rustic lock flamboyant, appeared an inscription—a wood-pulp tablet conferring twenty-four hours' immortality: The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew, M.A., pastor of the beautiful Chatham Road Presbyterian Church in lovely Floral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner.†   (source)
  • buttercups have constituted for me for all time the picture of the land in which I fain would pass my life, in which my only requirements are that I may go out fishing, drift idly in a boat, see the ruins of a gothic fortress in the grass, and find hidden among the cornfields—as Saint-Andre-des-Champs lay hidden—an old church, monumental, rustic, and yellow like a mill-stone; and the cornflowers, the hawthorns, the apple-trees which I may happen, when I go walking, to encounter in the fields, because they are situated at the same depth, on the level of my past life, at once establish contact with my heart.†   (source)
  • He did not remain in the rustic reaches of St. Swithin, where he belonged, but snooped all over the island, annoying Inchcape Jones.†   (source)
  • The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.†   (source)
  • His friend Clif was boorish, his beloved Leora was rustic, however gallant she might be, and he himself wasted energy in hectic busyness and in astonishment at dullness.†   (source)
  • My eyes followed up the slope which, outside the hedge, rose steeply to the fields, a poppy that had strayed and been lost by its fellows, or a few cornflowers that had fallen lazily behind, and decorated the ground here and there with their flowers like the border of a tapestry, in which may be seen at intervals hints of the rustic theme which appears triumphant in the panel itself; infrequent still, spaced apart as the scattered houses which warn us that we are approaching a village, they betokened to me the vast expanse of waving corn beneath the fleecy clouds, and the sight of a single poppy hoisting upon its slender rigging and holding against the breeze its scarle†   (source)
  • The Rev. Dr. Drew, his rustic bang flopping with the intensity of his poetic and sociologic ardor, trumpeted: "During the untoward series of industrial dislocations which have—let us be courageous and admit it boldly—throttled the business life of our fair city these past days, there has been a great deal of loose talk about scientific prevention of scientific—SCIENTIFIC!†   (source)
  • to tell them the story of Blanche of Castile's mother, who, according to him, "had been with Henry Plantagenet for years before they were married," tried to prompt Swann to beg him to continue the story, by interjecting "Isn't that so, M. Swann?" in the martial accents which one uses in order to get down to the level of an unintelligent rustic or to put the 'fear of God' into a trooper, Swann cut his story short, to the intense fury of their hostess, by begging to be excused for taking so little interest in Blanche of Castile, as he had something that he wished to ask the painter.†   (source)
  • He felt rustic when, after he had blurted, "Just a minute til I go up and unpack my suit-case," she said gently, "Oh, that will have been done for you."†   (source)
  • He was a bulky, gauche, noisy, humorous man, with narrow eyes, a rustic complexion, large red hands, and brilliant clothes.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, I had felt at once, as I had felt before the white blossom, but now still more marvelling, that it was in no artificial manner, by no device of human construction, that the festal intention of these flowers was revealed, but that it was Nature herself who had spontaneously expressed it (with the simplicity of a woman from a village shop, labouring at the decoration of a street altar for some procession) by burying the bush in these little rosettes, almost too ravishing in colour, this rustic 'pompadour.'†   (source)
  • And certainly though the lords and earls of his day may have looked down upon Burns as a humble person, many of us have greatly enjoyed his pieces about the mouse and other rustic subjects, with their message of humble beauty—I am so sorry I have not got the time to quote some of them.†   (source)
  • They modernized their rustic dancing; they learned to play bridge, rather badly, and tennis rather well; and Martin, not by virtue and heroism but merely by habit, got out of the way of resenting the chirp of small talk.†   (source)
  • When he had tried on a dinner suit and come out for her approval, his long brown tie and softcollared shirt somewhat rustic behind the low evening waistcoat, and when the clerk had gone to fetch collars, she wailed: "Darn it, Sandy, you're too grand for me.†   (source)
  • There was an uneasy knot of only nine guests at the service in the unpainted Lutheran Church—Carol, Kennicott, Guy Pollock, and the Champ Perrys, all brought by Carol; Bea's frightened rustic parents, her cousin Tina, and Pete, Miles's ex-partner in horse-trading, a surly, hairy man who had bought a black suit and come twelve hundred miles from Spokane for the event.†   (source)
  • Gottlieb, Terry Wickett, and Dr. Nicholas Yeo, that long-mustached and rustic biologist whom Martin had first taken for a carpenter, formed an independent faction of their own, and however much he disliked the boisterous Wickett, Martin was dragged into it.†   (source)
  • Beavers, human Beavers, were everywhere: thirty-second degree Beavers in gray sack suits and decent derbies, more flippant Beavers in crash summer coats and straw hats, rustic Beavers in shirt sleeves and frayed suspenders; but whatever his caste-symbols, every Beaver was distinguished by an enormous shrimp-colored ribbon lettered in silver, "Sir Knight and Brother, U. F. O. B., Annual State Convention."†   (source)
  • You consider yourself so much better educated than these rustics, but I notice you say 'gosh' and 'Big Guns' and that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • She had felt young and dissipated, had thought rather well of her black and leaf-green suit, but as she watched them, thin of ankle, soft under the chin, seventeen or eighteen at most, smoking cigarettes with the correct ennui and talking of "bedroom farces" and their desire to "run up to New York and see something racy," she became old and rustic and plain, and desirous of retreating from these hard brilliant children to a life easier and more sympathetic.†   (source)
  • They were embarrassed by the footmen, awed by the automatic elevator, oppressed by a hallway full of vellum folios and Italian chests and a drawing-room full of water-colors, and reduced to rusticity by Capitola's queenly white satin and pearls.†   (source)
  • She was reflecting that he was a rustic, that she hated him, that she had been insane to marry him, that she had married him only because she was tired of work, that she must get her long gloves cleaned, that she would never do anything more for him, and that she mustn't forget his hominy for breakfast.†   (source)
  • At the steepest point of the hill there was a little burial-ground, with a Cross and a new large figure of Our Saviour on it; it was a poor figure in wood, done by some inexperienced rustic carver, but he had studied the figure from the life—his own life, maybe—for it was dreadfully spare and thin.†   (source)
  • Our experience there enabled us to proceed quickly with the work, and in a few days the rustic abode was completed, and received, by Ernest's choice, the grand name of Prospect Hill.†   (source)
  • But at last it was the turn of the good old-fashioned dance which has the least of vanity and the most of merriment in it, and Maggie quite forgot her troublous life in a childlike enjoyment of that half-rustic rhythm which seems to banish pretentious etiquette.†   (source)
  • At these words he drew away the stone, and showed Teresa the grotto, lighted up by two wax lights, which burnt on each side of a splendid mirror; on a rustic table, made by Luigi, were spread out the pearl necklace and the diamond pins, and on a chair at the side was laid the rest of the costume.†   (source)
  • That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.†   (source)
  • The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.†   (source)
  • There was a seat for Mr. Peggotty too, but he preferred to stand, leaning his hand on the small rustic table.†   (source)
  • A year ago, you were perhaps a little limited—a little rustic; but now you have seen everything, and appreciated everything, and you will be a most entertaining companion.†   (source)
  • This country, gradually softening towards the neighbourhood of Mr. Bounderby's retreat, there mellowed into a rustic landscape, golden with heath, and snowy with hawthorn in the spring of the year, and tremulous with leaves and their shadows all the summer time.†   (source)
  • The bailiff advanced to the edge of the estrade, and cried, after having invoked silence by a wave of the hand,— "Bourgeois, rustics, and citizens, in order to satisfy those who wish the play to begin again, and those who wish it to end, his eminence orders that it be continued."†   (source)
  • He played with the ears of his hound; fingered his own rustic garment, and opened and shut the pan of his rifle, with hands that trembled in a manner that would have implied their total unfitness to wield the weapon.†   (source)
  • In this way it came to pass that those scattered linen-weavers—emigrants from the town into the country—were to the last regarded as aliens by their rustic neighbours, and usually contracted the eccentric habits which belong to a state of loneliness.†   (source)
  • In London itself, though in the old rustic road towards a suburb of note where in the days of William Shakespeare, author and stage-player, there were Royal hunting-seats—howbeit no sport is left there now but for hunters of men—Bleeding Heart Yard was to be found; a place much changed in feature and in fortune, yet with some relish of ancient greatness about it.†   (source)
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