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Rustic
"Rustic" in a Sentence (21 examples)
As we entered the shopping district Haruna's gaze darted about, just like she was a rustic from the hills, as she looked over the area.
They live in a little, rustic house out in the woods.
Bavarian cooking is hearty and rustic.
A Chinese farmer was told not to shave before the visit of President Hu Jintao, so that he would look "more rustic" on TV.
The white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the "country bumpkins" and "rustic belles" in the audience.
The rustic youth was as yet ignorant of the wiles of love.
Greece, once conquered, in turn conquered its uncivilized conqueror, and brought the arts to rustic Latium.
In the cities nothing is more surprising to a foreigner than to go from the dust and turmoil of a busy street directly into a rustic yard and the felicity of quiet country life. On one of the busy streets of Tokio I had often passed a low shop, the barred front of which was never opened to traffic, nor was there ever any one present with whom to deal. I used often to peer between the bars; and from the form of the wooden boxes on the step-like shelves within, I knew that the occupant was a dealer in old pottery.
In the gardens of the better classes summer-houses and shelters of rustic appearance and diminutive proportions are often seen. Rustic arbors are also to be seen in the larger gardens. Specially constructed houses of quaint design and small size are not uncommon; in these the ceremonial tea-parties take place. High fences, either of board or bamboo, or solid walls of mud or tile with stone foundations, surround the house or enclose it from the street. Low rustic fences border the gardens in the suburbs. Gateways of various styles, some of imposing design, form the entrances; as a general thing they are either rustic and light, or formal and massive.
During my teenage years, I enjoyed reading Edgar Pangborn's sci-fi novel Davy. It was about the surviving generations in the post-apocalyptic Atlantic coast of North America. Their life was like in the medieval times. They referred to pre-apocalyptic times as "Old Time." The novel was a hardcover from the central library in downtown Vancouver, BC. It had a rustic illustration in front of it.
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rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
She had a rustic, woodland air.
late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
rustic manners
the manners not too polite nor too rustic
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
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