farmer-bred

Updated: June 13, 2025

Once past Reuben, she would feel comparatively safe, for although Oliver's room was opposite he was too weary to be wakeful. It took scarcely a minute to creep toward Reuben, and Betty drew a quick breath of relief when she perceived that the farmer-bred lad, unaccustomed to night watches, and feeling that his prisoner was secure behind the bolted door, had fallen fast asleep.

Jeanie Gould Lincoln - An Unwilling Maid: Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American: Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott

Methinks this is characteristic of American life, these rough, weather-beaten, hard-handed, farmer-bred students. In nine cases out of ten they are incapable of any effectual cultivation; for men of ripe years, if they have any pith in them, will have long ago got beyond academy or even college instruction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1