dalesman
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dalesmen
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It is certain, also, that, in spite of much Anglo-Saxon admixture, the salt blood of the roving Viking is still in the Cumberland dalesman.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The dalesman had caught Sim's drift, and with his old trick of manner, more expressive than his words, he had put his hand on Sim's arm.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
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
Of a more reputable class here is Job Leathes, of Dale Head, a tall, gaunt dalesman, with pale gray eyes.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
One dalesman, however, asserted that he passed Hawke not later than one in the afternoon by the church in the centre of the valley.
From A Romance of Wastdale by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
This fall is still talked of at the firesides of the dalesmen of the north—cottars, farmers, and "statesmen"—as one of the most wonderful and dazzling achievements ever witnessed in the wrestling ring.
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
These factions embroiled the dalesmen until the 18th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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 dalesmen called the cleft between the hillocks the city gates; but why the gates and why the city none could rightly say.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The dalesmen found the little schoolmaster the merriest comrade that ever sat with them over a glass.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
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