Let them insinuate themselves into the company of some of the innumerable rustics who have grown up destitute of everything worth calling education; or of the equally ill-fated beings in the alleys, precincts, and lower employments of towns.
It is the will of Sergeant La Montagne that those rustics be hanged!
Several of the rustics have dared to lay hands upon me, and to disarm me!
To rouse the hare From gloomy lair; To scale the mountain And ford the fountain, While rustics wonder To hear our thunder.
Voltaire says that the English pronounce true as if it rhymed with view, and this is the sound our rustics give to it.
Indeed, this pronunciation was habitual till after Pope, and Rogers tells us that the elegant Gray said naise for noise just as our rustics still do.
The rustics in many parts of Germany, particularly on the festival of St. John the Baptist, wrench a stake from a fence, wind a rope round it, and pull it to and fro till it catches fire.
But the parson's wife refused to put the light out; it still glimmered at the window; and in the darkness outside the angry rustics vowed that the parson's pigs should get no benefit of the need-fire.
Rustics in England relate the history of a quarrel, or sickness, or death at great length.
These given will serve as examples, and I have but to add that there is perhaps no better way of becoming sensitive to idiom than by conversing with rustics and reading the English classics.
Thomas Hardy has given us the best rustics since Shakespeare with not much more than an indication of dialect.
In “Pembroke” the same author goes farther, and tacitly asks us to regard the quarrels of obstinate and ill-tempered rustics with the profound seriousness demanded by the crushing blows of inexorable fate.
And there they are with their boxes on the ground, displaying their looking-glasses and other goods to the honest rustics and their dames and their daughters, and selling away and chaffering and laughing just as of old.
Put on your old garments, grasp your ragged staff, and come with me to the Sagra, to assist in circulating the illustrious Gospel amongst the rustics on the Tagus' bank.
At the point, a group of rustics sat on a log at the bank-top, watching us approach.
Forepaugh's circus was in town, and crowds of rusticswere coming in by wagon road, railway trains, and steamers and ferries on both rivers.
To it came on Sunday the rustics of the parish as regularly as they went to their week-day work.
He was sitting in the sacristy at the appointed time, with a group of young rustics standing about him, when Johanson came quietly in.
The rusticslooked at each other with slow grins of comprehension, and the blue-eyed youth uttered a long shrill whistle.
The rustics and the convict, after one long stare of amazement at the distant hut, began to comment freely and with much recondite blasphemy upon the transaction recorded by Margery.
Under the baleful light vacant faces of dully honest English rustics became malignant, while the negro, dancing with long, outstretched arms and uncouth swayings to and fro, appeared a mirthful fiend.
The two rustics spoke little, but possibly thought the more.
The gaping astonishment of two rusticswho are looking at her is inimitably described.
It was a new and curious experience to find myself in a considerable gathering of rustics who had succeeded in getting through their day away from home so pleasantly without the aid of intoxicants.
The reader will see that these rustics had not attained that quaint sententious wisdom proper to the rustics of fiction.
Then, hurrying to the voice of the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
Sister Silvia, smiting her arms with open hands, begins to call for aid, and gathers the hardy rustics with her cries.
The most respectable bishops had persuaded themselves that the ignorant rustics would more cheerfully renounce the superstitions of paganism if they found some resemblance, some compensation, in the bosom of Christianity.
But he knew that in the midst of those lofty elms stood the old manor-house, of which he was in quest, so he rode on without making any inquiries from the few rustics he encountered.
The young rustics hustled one another forward, moved by strong excitement, all eager to see the feminine 'Humpire' who had descended upon them as suddenly as a vision falling from the skies, and all wondering what would happen next.
Then there are the straw bonnets and rough smocks of the rustics to be sketched for the fashion-plate, and my column upon the Insanitary Condition of Birds' Nests to be compiled.
Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto--Diana and Actaeon --Latona and theRustics V.
The goddess approached, and kneeling on the bank would have slaked her thirst in the cool stream, but the rustics forbade her.
A mere twelvemonths' labour at reforming the morals and refining the minds of the rustics by means of the schoolmaster was not quite enough to bring young Codling to a proper sense of his position.
As the excitement over teaching the rustics their alphabet and multiplication table began to die out in his mind, this new whim came handily to take its place and prevent him from feeling like a deserter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rustics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
