high-born-looking

Updated: May 20, 2025

My plowman was a young man a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms. He was stylishly dressed, and I took him for a college lad on vacation. He assured me, however, that his schooling had been acquired in the neighborhood, that he was a farmer on his own account, with a team of his own, and that he was accustomed to plowing rocky land.

Albert Bigelow Paine - Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm