dalesman
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dalesmen
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Daylight faded, and once more the night came on, but still the brave young dalesman held to his purpose.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Early next day, Monday, the young dalesman set about inquiries among the townspeople as to whether a man answering to the description which he gave of Sim had been seen to pass through the town.
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
Anyway, I warrant me the natives of these parts will hear the news with rare glee, for a dalesman likes to keep in the shadow of his hills and fells.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
He was a brawny dalesman, of perhaps thirty.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The dalesmen looked after his retreating figure, and as the door of the inner room closed, they heard his metallic voice ask if the deceased had judiciously arranged his temporal affairs.
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
Kindliness of heart, no doubt, remained to the last with Mr. Walker, that being secured by the universal spirit of brotherly and social feeling amongst the dalesmen of the lake district.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
When Ulfar considers how savagely primitive these dalesmen are in their passions, he will understand that discretion is the nobler part of valour.
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
But one of the dalesmen who knew the ravens sent his son to the hermitage to see if all was well, and followed the fellows to the town.
From A Child's Book of Saints by T. H. (Thomas Heath) Robinson
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