dalesman
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dalesmen
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The young dalesman looked long into it: his breast heaved with emotion, and for the first time in his manhood big tears stood in his eyes.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
The representatives of the Carlisle high constable were conscious that they had labored under serious disadvantages in their efforts to capture a dalesman in his own stronghold of the mountains.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
"Some barn to be christened afore the service, Liza?" called another young dalesman after her, with the memory of the girl's enjoyment of a similar ceremony not long before.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
Her husband is a rough, blunt dalesman, of the good old type.'
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
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 Hornung, Ernest W.
In the days of Gustavus I the dalesmen demanded that all those who wore low-cut or many-coloured dresses should be punished.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
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 Caine, Hall, Sir
A tie like that of family blood is involuntarily imposed upon the little community of dalesmen.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
The Kings were independent people, like the dalesmen of Cumberland, and stood, as the saying is, upon their own foot-soles.
From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Matthew sat at the foot of the table, and down each side were seated the dalesmen, to the number of twenty-four.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
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