How To Use backwoodsman In A Sentence
- Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
- gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored
- Rejecting the charge that he is a backwoodsman, a person familiar with his thinking said: ‘He's not against an international strategy.’
- And yet all I can think is how a nutritionally deprived Irish immigrant, a backwoodsman and a 16th-century carpenter managed to possess such fantastically white teeth.
- Since these films reverse the gender/power relation between their central partners, they necessarily reverse the customary direction of the gaze: the movie star gazes at the bookseller, the glamorous reporter at the backwoodsman.
- Roaming about in the woods with hatchet in hand, like a backwoodsman, followed by a troop of dogs; starting up of birds, snakes, hares and foxes, and examining the various kinds of trees, flowers, and birds nests, was at least, a change from the monotonous drag and pull on shipboard. Chapter XIX. The Sandwich Islanders-Hide-Curing-Wood-Cutting-Rattle-Snakes-New-Comers
- Almost completely outside the influences of modern science and twentieth-century culture, the peasant was a brutal, blundering backwoodsman .
- The backwoodsman doesn't really need his wallpaper changed, does he?
- The untutored backwoodsman was deemed wiser than the academic scholar, for the locally grounded observer had ‘greater opportunity to make new discoveries… than the professor whose life is spent in the laboratory’.
- There is a sound that can sometimes be heard in the woods very late at night that indicates the presence of a novice backwoodsman.