plainsman
Americannoun
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plainsmen
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“Oh, no, we wouldn’t!” he asserted with all the eagerness of the amateur plainsman.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
A plainsman would not only claim to be ignorant of the ways of other regions but willingly appear to be misinformed about them.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
Henry and Jane, older and wiser, know that talent, like blood type, is decided before birth; that the plainsman, the rebel and the runaway are all branches on the same family tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Socially agreeable, he is no dour plainsman who does not know how to have a good time in Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest stood still a minute, gazing at her, not awkwardly, for self-consciousness is rarely a characteristic of the plainsman, but as if they felt that there was something to be said or done.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
Murnane’s mysterious plainsmen pursue the “lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
The plainsmen who cling stubbornly to their windy reaches are outraged, and the argument is rumbling over the horizons.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a gesture of good will, one of these weather units had 90 saddles flown in from the U.S. and parachuted on to the desert for Mongolian plainsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Schoolcraft, knowing that trouble with these plainsmen would almost certainly end in serious bloodshed, shrugged his shoulders and entered the shack; and after him, from behind the corral wall darted the slender Mexican.
From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford
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