Example Sentences

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He was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him. 

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

"I once attempted a deal with him," said an old farmerlike man at the fireside.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James