Farmer

Examples

• His father was a farmer, that's true; but his mother was a sort of lady, as we know. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An invention of such great value to the farmer naturally advertised itself through the country districts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The ordinary Roman citizen, like the ordinary Boer, was a farmer; at the summons of his country he went on commando. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Why, he began by being a small Shropshire farmer before they made a baited bull of him, said Mr. George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I happened to say, I thought it was a pity they had not been landed in Pennsylvania, as in that country almost every farmer had his wagon. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying, that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And the farmers take in lodgers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The possession, even of such farmers, however, was long extremely precarious, and still is so in many parts of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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