| 单词 | clodhopper |
| 例句 | Tom went out of the room and they heard his clodhopper feet knocking on the flinty ground outside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It all started about the time a tough young New Orleans comet man named Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong climbed off a train in New York wearing clodhopper policemen’s shoes, and started playing with Fletcher Henderson. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the trouble with you great clodhoppers. You don’t see beyond your noses. But if you expect me to build a cage for you, you’re mistaken.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It's only been three months and I already look the part of farmer in overalls and clodhoppers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His bright, indignant eyes swept from my battered gray cap, down the frayed sweater and paint-stained pants to a pair of clodhoppers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip Mama Ya-Ya’s black clodhopper shoes off her tiny feet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The cook stirred in his lean-to behind the kitchen, groping for his clothes and putting on his clodhopper shoes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, no,” she said, “don’t grab your skirt like some clodhopper. Think of making wings, like an angel. Like this. Now sink. Slowly! Don’t plummet, child—you’re not a rock.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “He can barely walk. What do you think I’ve been doing all week? I’ve been giving him ballroom dancing lessons. And the big clodhopper tramped all over my feet. I’m crippled for life.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The results look like horror film versions of Greek, Indian or African religious sculptures, or like the detached tobacco-fiend heads and disembodied clodhoppers in Philip Guston’s late paintings. Art Review: 1 Artist, 2 Shows, 2 Mediums, 1 Vision 2010-12-18T00:15:16Z This may sound dull as ditch water to those who believe that the “flyover” states are inhabited largely by clodhoppers, fundamentalist zealots and loudmouthed Babbitts. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z She wore a marble-dyed mesh shirt, tight jeans, clodhopper heels and a bounty of rings and necklaces. Priscilla Block Wants Country Music to Sparkle 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z As the models stomped by wearing lug-soled clodhoppers, the sound one heard was not exactly footfall so much as the beautiful and imaginary music of a cash register going ka-ching. Fashion Review: Fashion Review: The Italian Men’s Wear Shows 2013-01-16T21:30:06Z It was so effective and unexpected that it drew in Sam Hunt to sing-rap about “muddy old clodhoppers and a Mossberg pump.” Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z One line confirms what the audience suspected: The clodhopper is in fact a shrewd judge of character. Opinion | The context behind the fatal punchline that obscured the Lincoln assassination 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z One of the Mets made a clodhopper move on the bases, and was tagged out. Whether They Wanted it or Not, Jackie Robinson Raised Americans’ Consciousness 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z One-hundred years later you may wonder what possible connection this quaint clodhopper has to tell us about the gargantuan heavy equipment company? John Deere Turns 100: How Its Waterloo Boy Tractor Changed America 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z More clodhopper than royalty, like rubes in a hand-me-down suit. Remember the Titans: Forty years after Cal State Who, Fullertons take on Purdue 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I just wasn’t ready to scuttle around at belt level in clodhoppers. Down with High Heels 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Looking at the crazy street style of the fashion crowd in Paris, in their oversized coats, funny hats and clodhopper shoes, is one thing. Is this the future of fashion? In Paris, Junya Watanabe gives us a lot to chew on 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z A requiem for making an effort, Jacobs' bid for fashion and formality was remarkable in a season when so many collections featured casual layers, low-key luxe and comfy clodhopper shoes. New York Fashion Week: The visionaries of womenswear 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z And all of you clodhoppers who sneer, “He’s not my president”—yes he is, just as Bush or Reagan or Carter or Nixon or LBJ or JFK or FDR or Harding or Cleveland were presidents. Seditious Words From Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn An Irish parson of the old school, in whom a perception of the ridiculous was developed with a Rabelaisian breadth of appreciation, was asked by a clodhopper to explain the meaning of a miracle. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z Bourdillon thought of him with contempt, as a clodhopper, a rustic, hinting that he was a throwback to an ancestor, not too remote, who had followed the plough and whistled for want of thought. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z To give up a strong place like this to a parcel of clodhoppers--it is absurd! My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Any ragged girl talk like a clodhopper until she is insulted and then talk like a princess? Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z Jove!" he said, when they had danced once round the room in silence, "it's a relief to come across a friend amongst all these clodhoppers. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Kencote was a cemetery of the dead, a little bit of Hampstead stuck down ten miles from nowhere, which came to the same thing; its owner was an old clodhopper. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The worthy Mr. Hudny, as former managers had done, treated the peasants as clowns and clodhoppers. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z He refers to a Berlin caricature of the scene which was at the time in all the shops, "exciting even the laughter of clodhoppers." Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z This prince of baths would, we verily believe, change the dullest clodhopper to a wit for a time, and convert the prosiest old antiquarian into a poet. Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity 2011-09-08T02:00:23.090Z You mean that clodhopper with the tight-fitting hand-me-down in the seat behind us—yesterday? The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Yes; throw off your Cossack clothes, and disguise yourself as a peasant youth,--though you are rather comely to be a clodhopper's child, as I am to be a grandfather; but that is nothing. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z She must make a good match of course, not throw herself away upon any clodhopper in this wretched hole. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z A bricklayer, most likely, or a clodhopper of some sort. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Do you suppose I concern myself with those stuffing clodhoppers? Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z And I don’t believe he is a clodhopper. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Any clodhopper, lout, any libertine, any moral leper could own you for life, in exchange for the papers! A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "Ha, ha!" cried Kurz, "about your debts, I suppose; but don't come near me with those to-day, I have enough of this clodhopper business, and I won't pay them!" and he shoved his son away. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Nobody could be a clodhopper who lived with my mother, and ordinarily I acted quite like a man when necessary, but this was a little sudden. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z David was likely to have his own way with clodhoppers, even in the hour of tribulation. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z The creator of wealth is the superior intelligence that conceives something better than this clodhopper's daily task. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z In any case, this clodhopper who spent money like a lord must be taught manners. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Some clodhoppers roystering in the tap room forbade sleep at first and as I am not wont to hear the quarters stricken the Abbey bells roused me at frequent intervals and made me swear roundly. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z It was truly a novel kind of amusement to enjoy the patronage of such a clodhopper; but it was one infinitely rich in the comic. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Was he so weak, then, as to return to the poison that had made him the byword of clodhoppers? The Man Who Rose Again You give me the wages of a clodhopper and ask me to prepare a table fit for a king. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z There was nothing of the clodhopper in this well-dressed young fellow, although he was not exactly a model for advertising high-grade tailoring. The Reclaimers I’ll–” “Begging your pardon, madam,–but are you prepared to marry that barbarous clodhopper?” Into the Primitive Because, in the first place, you said what I did not like to the Chouette; then you had a fancy for stopping and playing the fool among the clodhoppers here. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 He, Radford Leicester, who had laughed at these clodhoppers, go back cap in hand, and plead with them to take him back! The Man Who Rose Again There once was a tendency to describe magnanimous persons of quality, and repulsive clodhoppers and villagers. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus "Come on; it is so like a country clodhopper to stand looking at a big house, as if you had never seen one before." Under the Mendips A Tale Then I was insulted and abused by the last person in the world who should have done so, and that in front of a gang of gaping clodhoppers. In the Whirl of the Rising “Of all the bumptious old clodhoppers!” muttered Harry Maitland, scowling after the retreating form. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The Mercury who, in the green bronze, floats upwards like a bubble, would jump like a clodhopper in the dingy white plaster. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions "Hello, there; where are you goin', you chuckle-headed clodhoppers?" yelled the men on another train rushing down from a different direction. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign "Take the position of soldiers, you slouching clodhoppers," he said, with an assortment of oaths, as the squad entered the office. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys Only look at the attempts in verse of the common run of clodhoppers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) I'd sooner listen to the uncouth love phrases of the veriest clodhopper in Bourbon County than to his honeyed, courtly utterances. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge But its very simplicity challenges examination, and an inquisitive clodhopper can effect more damage in a minute than I can repair in an hour.” Cynthia's Chauffeur Strange as it may appear, it seems to have been generally conceded that the typical clodhopper was the ordained farmer! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century I’d like to see a million of the clodhoppers compelled to stand up and face a line of grenadiers.” The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) I can't endure to see her go about giving lessons to the clodhoppers round here. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly With an imprecation and a vow to "do for" "eyes, liver, and lights" of the "clodhopper," he rushed at him blindly. The Broom-Squire Of course, I don't know how it would be with a clodhopper who didn't happen to be as intelligent as I'd want. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields But the British officers were scornful of their clodhopper besiegers. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) I planned to discard the ragged overalls and clumsy "clodhoppers" of the farm, as soon as I reached the mountains, for smoke-tanned, Indian-made buckskin suit and moccasins, all beaded and fringed. A Mountain Boyhood "Shud think I was," replied the clodhopper, "as I feeds myself and you teaches me." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. "That was a treat after those clodhoppers," she said, when the dance ended. Valley of Wild Horses And it was just like Phil, for years the loyal protector of all the discards among the cats and dogs in town, to choose a clodhopper for special attention. Otherwise Phyllis "A nice clodhopper you are!" he said amiably to his own reflection, and passed on, smiling. Life of St. Vincent de Paul All the clodhoppers and grass-combers I had met before, who were mostly her relations, were asked to the wedding, and among the rest her clownish admirer, who, I understood, was her cousin. A Sailor of King George He lives like a pig, too, excuse me, a clodhopper, a blusterer, a big-bellied blockhead, with a swollen red mug—makes me want to hit him in the eye, the blackguard. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Of old all the servant girls, and all the clodhoppers from the country, used to gather in the town dressed in galore fashion, crowding the Bull-ring. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The clodhopper exercises, or is to exercise, his share of the power equally with the highest nobleman. The Subjection of Women They give us clodhoppers the glad hand, a cheap cigar, and a cheaper smile after election;—and that’s all. The Brown Mouse About midnight all the clodhoppers took their departure. A Sailor of King George His red but shining eyes hinted that Milt was a clodhopper and no honest wearer of evening clothes. Free Air “Just hand me your money, you old clodhopper.” A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance "How can we get those clodhoppers out of the wood?" said Furneaux. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley As he sat down, he felt himself a silly clodhopper, filled with the east wind of his own conceit, out of touch with the real world of men. The Brown Mouse If ever I saw a regular clodhopper, he’s the chap. Dorothy on a Ranch They will not deny that this boy is of revolting appearance, that his body is rotten through and through with disease, that he is liable to fits, and is a barbarian and a clodhopper. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Every negro type was there, from the genteel butler to the clodhopper from the cotton and rice fields. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan You might not have found such a clodhopper all you wanted, and my stupidity might have vexed you, though now you fancy otherwise. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster I’ve been out of the world so long that I’ve a dread of impressing people as stupid, as being a clodhopper. The Prairie Mother It came, grumblingly: “I suppose it’s well enough—for the clodhoppers that live here.” The Range Boss Have you no better work than to waste powder on a parcel of frightened clodhoppers? The Reckoning Its essentials are as readily grasped by the clodhopper as by the profoundest scholar whose years are spent in delving into the mysteries of science. Deerfoot in The Mountains "If only my brother knew where I was," he reflected, "he would soon turn the tables on those clodhoppers." The Young Bank Messenger He who fortunately was no German, and whose seriousness is a charming and golden seriousness and not by any means that of a German clodhopper.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. But says the constable, 'Please, your worship, the prisoner is a man, a hulking clodhopper, some six or seven feet high, with a strong black beard.' The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 They were all clodhoppers up here, he said, and you could only get any proper polish in the South. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow The plough and the loom would stand still, If we were made gentlefolks all; If clodhoppers—who then would fill The parliament, pulpit or hall? Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest "Just hand me your money, you old clodhopper." The Young Bank Messenger It gives them the air of little clodhoppers.” Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes “Hi! hi! you clodhopper there, stop that infernal barge,” shouted Bruce at the top of his voice, knowing that if the barge once passed the winning posts, the race would be utterly spoilt. Julian Home She did not like to think Father a clodhopper; and I am sure he is not. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow There is another which is the mere boorishness of the clodhopper. Danger! and Other Stories Even the clodhoppers jeered him; and that confounded friend of his, Gould, was close beside and laughed, and would be sure to repeat what he heard. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys It is but standing a laugh or two, and hearing a gay fellow say, D—— me, Jack, are you turned clodhopper at last?—that is the worst. St. Ronan's Well The fact is that the farmer of the West is not the clodhopper, at whose expense the funny man of the modern journal likes to crack jokes. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Fact, too good for the half of the clodhoppers about these parts. The Drone A Play in Three Acts "Here, you old clodhopper, you; don't you shoot! don't you shoot!" screamed Seth Tucket, rushing wildly out of the bushes just as the rebel pulled the trigger. The Drummer Boy In young masters and misses we can pardon any childishness; but we cannot pardon the antipathy to the owl entertained by the manly minds of grown-up English clodhoppers, ploughmen, and threshers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 And a later Latin writer speaks of the farmer who does not plough thoroughly as one who becomes a mere "clodhopper." Modern American Prose Selections Johnnie standing in the dock appeared to the spectators to be in a half-dazed condition—as dull and spiritless a clodhopper as they had ever beheld. Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn Well, if you behave yourself like a man with some manners, and not like an ignorant clodhopper, I can do a great deal for you. The Drone A Play in Three Acts He was a dutiful nephew, but he felt that another month with this clodhopper of an English boy would mean the snapping of his finely strung nerves. A Maker of History He not only saw that he was disgraced, but felt in himself that he had been cowardly; and, more mortifying still, felt that, with respect to the clodhopper, he was cowardly now. Alec Forbes of Howglen What was he doing there, with his keen face and worldly, confident carriage, amidst those clodhoppers? The Clarion Clinton and I shall honor that lugubrious ceremony with our presence; but as respecting the clodhopper himself, meaning thereby Bryan of Ahadarra, he is provided for. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Among men in Chinese Asia, from the clodhopper to the gentleman, the inheritance of Fetichism from the primeval ages is constantly noticeable. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji I want no petticoats clinging to me—much less an ignorant backwoods clodhopper. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Bourne was standing up to his man pluckily, and, thanks to the "agricultural" style of the clodhopper, was not taking nearly so much harm as he should have done. Acton's Feud A Public School Story Get out, with your great paws and clodhoppers! Around The Tea-Table "Faith, I'm not able to say, most learned Philomath; only, is it true that Bryan, the clodhopper, has matrimonial designs upon the fair daughter of the regal Cavanagh?" The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two The name of the groom lingered with surprise on the minister's lips, for it was not a clodhopper's name, I assure you; but he had heard nothing of the love affair. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 In the country this vice of the clodhopper is far from infrequent. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Is it likely that I should hesitate to kill a clodhopper, or a score, if only to take my vengeance on you and Fate? Aylwin He was not a clodhopper; watch him from the bow-window of a morning as he walked down the street! The Price of Love Honest Jemmy the gentleman has taken the sthad an' won't fork out any longer, so that I must either run a cast or two every now an' then, or turn clodhopper like himself. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two "Who'd have thought a green country clodhopper would have gone up as he has, while an experienced man of the world like me is out at the elbows and without a cent!" Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake It is the vice of the clodhopper, unattractive to women or inapt to court them. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy They were frightful clodhoppers who seemed to find it necessary to talk and laugh boisterously in restaurants and cafés. Against the Grain The stalwart clodhoppers now seized the two ends of the rope and went to work with a will. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul "P.S.—Beware the clodhopper—bow wow!—ho! ho!" The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two She was like the Thorndykes--city folks, educated people, who could have no use for a clodhopper like me, a canal hand, a rough character. Vandemark's Folly There is something dignified and antique in land, and no one need trouble himself to ascertain whether "farmer" stood for a close-fisted, narrow-souled clodhopper, or the smiling, benevolent master of broad acres. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 You cannot be very conceited about a game in which the first clodhopper you meet can give you ten minutes' start in an hour. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Evidently he had no fear of being-called a "clodhopper" or a "hayseed!" George Washington: Farmer Simple Susie, who had seen nothing of young men besides the awkward and blushing clodhoppers of Chaney Creek, was somewhat dazzled by the free-and-easy speech and manner of the hard-cheeked bagman. Not Pretty, but Precious A clodhopper might knock a mast out of a vessel, but a sailor must replace it. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Now mount your musty pulpit—thump, And muddle flat clodhoppers; And let some long-eared booby "hump" The plate about for coppers. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens See the destruction brought upon the British at Bunker's Hill—yet our troops there were only militia; raw, half-armed clodhoppers, and not a mortar, or carronade, not even a swivel—only their ducking-guns! The Life of Francis Marion They're clumsy clodhoppers With axes and choppers, And shepherds and ploughmen And drovers and cowmen, And hedgers and reapers And carters and keepers, But never a lover for me! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan The man was to all appearance as heavy, as HEBETE, as any English clodhopper; but I knew I was in Scotland, and launched out forthright into Education and Politics and the aims of one's life. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 The July sun streamed in at the window and through the open door and cast its hot flames on to the uneven brown clay floor, which had been stamped down by four generations of clodhoppers. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant The fairy books love to tell about some clodhopper suddenly enchanted up into a king. The University of Hard Knocks "Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us," retorted Mabel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It's a good gentlemanly game; and young Vincy is not a clodhopper. Middlemarch Then I hear you talk like a clodhopper. The Mayor of Casterbridge The Oldest Inhabitant has always been a clodhopper; I have never heard of his being a gentleman. Alarms and Discursions But life's good fairies see to it that the clodhopper is enchanted into readiness for kingship before he lands upon the throne. The University of Hard Knocks And all for the purpose of crushing some five or six thousand clodhoppers and fishermen, half-armed and penniless, who were ready to throw their lives away for a man and for an idea. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 I tell you, man, Lady Eversleigh is a consummate actress, though she never acted before a better audience than the clodhoppers at a country fair. Run to Earth A Novel And who nowadays can tolerate low life in print unless it be redeemed by a rustic environment and a laboured exposition of clodhopper English and primitive expletives? Tales from Bohemia Why, what a notion!" cried Lady Allonby; "as if a person should bother seriously one way or the other about the antics of an amorous clodhopper! Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Let's bathe once, at once, and you can bathe again when your Sabine clodhoppers get here. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Of course a clodhopper does not know what a railway is. Selected Polish Tales He's no clodhopper's son, I can tell by his hands and feet, his air and walk. The Mysterious Key and What It Opened But this is the way nowadays; to save a few dollars in seamen's wages, they think nothing of shipping a parcel of farmers and clodhoppers and baby-boys. Redburn. His First Voyage How else is one to account for his imagining for a moment that clodhopper, clutch, copious, cosy, cross-grained, greenhorn, and rigmarole are obsolete in England? America To-day, Observations and Reflections We are not clodhoppers because we live in this out-of-the-way place. The Mystery of Cloomber When a barbarian insults me, I take it as a foul word from a clodhopper, which does not hurt me, but may damage his own self-respect, if he cherishes such an illusion. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War You have no idea how utterly out of fashion you seem, stumbling about the roads like a clodhopper, and going up and downstairs as though you were on the treadmill…. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects It said, "A beggar and a clodhopper; a beggar and a clodhopper." Trials and Triumphs of Faith The clodhopper might be conscientious in a change of creed, but as to the advantage I have over him from superior knowledge!—Knowledge, Tom Cringle's Log I am as complete an ignoramus as any of these clodhoppers. The Mystery of Cloomber If you did not recognise me no wonder that I was able to take in those gaping clodhoppers, fresh from their turnip-fields, in the street below. A Girl Among the Anarchists He was only a peasant, a clodhopper of the wilds; if her mouth had been as it was now from the start she would never have taken him; be sure of that. Growth of the Soil These beasts are all clodhoppers, and their feet are hobnailed boots. Concerning Animals and Other Matters I spend half my days teaching clodhoppers how to fold hired togas properly behind the neck. Caesar Dies Before he reached the bridge, the other side of him, the man of action, of cool resource in an emergency, rose in rebellion against the league of silly clodhoppers. The Postmaster's Daughter Oh, Webb, what a clodhopper you're trying to make yourself out to be! Nature's Serial Story The only man that has been here for lodging to-day was an old clodhopper who was so spattered with mud that you couldn't see the color of his coat. Fifty Famous People How many of the belles of the Pump Room and the Crescent would take me for other than a clodhopper? Janice Meredith I was walking in the fields one day," said Larry, "when Guy came out and began to order me round, and call me a clodhopper and other unlikely names, which I didn't enjoy. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute "I'll teach my city lady that I'm not a clodhopper that other girls won't look at," he thought as he drove away. Without a Home A country clodhopper: from the shoes of country farmers and ploughmen being commonly stuck full of hob-nails, and even often clouted, or tipped with iron. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue I heard one of your clodhoppers say the other day, 'The squire is a good gentleman, he often gives me a day's work.' It Is Never Too Late to Mend Waking his assistant, he gave the man—a stupid clodhopper, but honest and attached—instructions how to manage during his absence, then sent him to the township to order horses. Australia Felix I had a wretched time yesterday,—speechifying and trying to rouse up clodhoppers to the interests of their country,—and all the time my darling at home was alone, and breaking her heart about me! Thelma "But this is a new thing, and you know how these clodhoppers are." A Daughter of the Land When all is said, however, that young Weatherby is no clodhopper, you know, and I'm not sure that he isn't worthier of her than any highsounding somebody across the water would have been. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields You think you are the man of talent and I am the clodhopper. It Is Never Too Late to Mend To the school ladies, mistress and pupils, he was simply a clodhopper, and from their report became a treasure of poverty-stricken amusement to the school. Sir Gibbie It meant disgrace, defeat; and this fire was as a seal of vassalage affixed to my arms by those I called clodhoppers and serfs. Mauprat "I hope it is not that vulgar scene you have just had with those clodhoppers which depresses you?" she said. The Chouans She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination. A Millionaire of Yesterday This looks like paradox; but you've found out now that the peasant and clodhopper isn't malleable; he can't be forced down and kept under like the noble. The Lesser Bourgeoisie For were not ignorant clodhoppers asserting as facts what he knew never could take place! Sir Gibbie You have let yourself be imposed upon by a clodhopper. Options "The young clodhopper's on his dignity," he muttered to himself. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp He sang, he told stories that set all but one shrieking, he played the yokel, the humorous clodhopper; he was mad, mad with the revival of the old life in his blood. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million "Surrounded, I suppose, only by clodhoppers, with whom you could not associate." Twenty Years After It took an old African soldier to show those clodhoppers. Tales of Unrest "I don't want a clodhopper to teach me." Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp |
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