rusticities
- plural of rusticity.
Example Sentences
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It was the more touching from occasional rusticities and artistic defects, which showed that she had received no culture from art.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
What a perpetual fund would it have been of obsolete words and phrases, unusual barbarisms and rusticities, absurd spellings and complicated dialects!
From Essays and Tales by Morley, Henry
But ye verses, away to fire, to burning, Rank rusticities, empty vapid annals 20 Of Volusius, heap of all dishonour.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
To Gard it all now appeared seemly enough, like an opera peasant ballet whose frank rusticities were excused under the inspiration of the music.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver
She has collected around her all manner of pretty rusticities; all the comfortable elegancies she could imagine.
From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence
