dalesman
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dalesmen
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noun
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Origin of dalesman
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"What's the news there?" asked the other passenger, with an accent which the little dalesman was equally certain was not foreign to these parts.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
His North-country accent proclaimed him a Yorkshire dalesman, and the White Rose was popular just then in Fleet Street.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
None but a dalesman, he said, could read Wordsworth aright, or really love him.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
Well, so much for my mother; my father was a Yorkshire dalesman, as his father and his father's father were before him.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
He was a brawny dalesman, of perhaps thirty.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The evening was far advanced when the dalesmen rose to go.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The bride and bridegroom were to return in this conveyance, which was to be drawn down the frozen river by a score of young dalesmen shod in steel.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
The song, once an indispensable item in the programme, may now and again be heard, lustily shouted by the dalesmen.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott
I was hardly prepared to find that my plain russet-coated dalesmen were in touch with popular sympathy; but they have made me many friends.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
There are a good many dalesmen in my company, and none of us enjoy anything more than a fair throw or an in-lock.”
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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