The footfalls grew louder, a dalesman passed along the centre of the roadway, his steps died away up the hill.
He glanced soberly around, caught the eye of the young dalesman furtively, and winked again.
Indeed, the young dalesman was civil, and no more.
Once there was like to have been trouble between the two friends, for Lars loved a maiden at the farm, who out of coquetry often smiled at Gustavus, until the giant Dalesman became terribly jealous.
The astounded Dalesman staggered back, pointing to it.
One day he met in the woods a giant Dalesman named Liss Lars, and, as they were chatting together, a great bear attacked Gustavus.
So when a new light broke into Borrodale, and lime was first sent for from beyond Keswick; the carrier was an old dalesman with horse and sacks.
One winter a dalesman from Lower Valley was travelling towards the plains with a load of butter and cured fish.
When the dalesman locked his door, blew out his candle, and crept into his sheepskins, then the light gleamed as bright as ever from Gaupa’s hut.
Rabbits appear to be the largest four-footed creatures preyed upon by otters, but we have heard it suggested by an old Lakeland dalesman that they will on occasion take lambs.
Anyway, the old dalesman more than once found the carcass of a lamb left close to the edge of the water on the lake shore, with the tracks of otters round about it.
To which the nearest Dalesman would reply: "Nay, I canno tell ye!
It is a country in which sheep are paramount; and every other Dalesman is engaged in that profession which is as old as Abel.
True, the stalwart dalesman on the door bench yawned and slept as before; but even Ralph's firm lower lip began to relax, and he was never a gay and sportive elf.
Ralph recalled some dim memory of the youngdalesman asking about his father.
The young dalesman leaned back on the bench, took a draught of his liquor, rested the pot on his knee, and looked into the fire with the steady gaze of one just out of the darkness.
The young dalesman looked long into it: his breast heaved with emotion, and for the first time in his manhood big tears stood in his eyes.
The dalesman had caught Sim's drift, and with his old trick of manner, more expressive than his words, he had put his hand on Sim's arm.
There was little doubt in the mind of the lusty young dalesman as he took his "lang stroke o' the ground" that before many hours had gone by Sim would be overtaken and brought back.
Such of them as intended to accompany the remains of their fellow-dalesman to their resting place at Gosforth came on mountain ponies, which they dismounted in the court and led into a spare barn.
The representatives of the Carlisle high constable were conscious that they had labored under serious disadvantages in their efforts to capture a dalesman in his own stronghold of the mountains.
Dalesman or not, my lord, a cunning and dangerous man," replied counsel.
As the young dalesman was leaving the cottage that morning, he encountered in the porch the subject of the conversation, who was entering in.
Early next day, Monday, the young dalesman set about inquiries among the townspeople as to whether a man answering to the description which he gave of Sim had been seen to pass through the town.
Reuben from where he sat and speaking with an accent which the littledalesman knew to be "foreign to these parts.
Unable to speak, the young dalesman bent his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dalesman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
