Henceforth he farmed his land like a gentleman, drank with those of his neighbours who would crack a bottle with him, and unlocked the strange stores of his memory to bumpkins who knew not the name of Newgate.
Thuringian bumpkins cover up the wells and bring the cattle home from pasture during an eclipse either of the sun or of the moon; an eclipse is particularly poisonous when it happens to fall on a Wednesday.
These same bumpkins have stood by him when nobler friends have held aloof.
Yet our work was made easier to us by the assurance that it was not thrown away, for at every gathering our bumpkins stood more erect, and handled their weapons more deftly.
The study was a commodious room, with a line of chairs against the further wall, which the parish mostly took when the bumpkins had anything to say to the parson.
He would not care, perhaps, for county business or for the quarter sessions; he would have too much contempt for the country bumpkins to be popular with the farmers or wield political influence.
He had those Illinois bumpkins all worked up,--the women crying, and some of the men, too.
Greene and Gibson and Sevier's boys hid themselves with the horses in a clump outside the town, while Cozby and Evans, disguised as bumpkins in hunting shirts, jogged into the town with Sevier's racing mare between them.
These are the advantages I derive from crying; I do not cry out of folly; but you country bumpkins are fools because you do not see what I do it for.
When she heard this, she recognised me, and said with a smile, "Yes, country bumpkins are tricked in this way by city wits.
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and boobies.
Pridgeon had rescued the wheel from the pond and, having successfully directed two bumpkins to trundle it to the blacksmith, arrived at the inn with an admiring retinue of idlers, whom he regaled with quarts of bitter beer.
If the bird were a sparrow the bumpkins would let it be.
Of course they will stone you, as village bumpkins run out and stone an odd stray bird that they have never seen before; and the more beautiful the plumage looks, the harder rain the stones.
The places where they appear most in their element are in the country fairs, where great crowds of country bumpkins and farmers and unsophisticated people gather either for business or for pleasure.
Get two or three smart chaps; let them watch fairs and patterns, mind their hits when the bumpkins got drunk, and find out when fellows were hiding from a warrant.
He meets with continual discouragements; and finds great difficulty in getting the country bumpkins to play their parts tolerably.
But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkinsto show her visitors.
No, when she loved, she loved in the open, with the sublime immodesty of the masterpiece that scandalizes bumpkins with its naked beauty!
By contrast alone with the country bumpkins the heart of the girl will be won.
Some distraction in the gardens; probably a quarrel; one of the bumpkins has perhaps struck another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumpkins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
