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Dalesman

noun
(pl. dalesmen)
1.
A person who lives in the dales of northern England.





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"Dalesman" Quotes from Famous Books



... for which he himself might have stood as the representative was not without its effect upon him. His ideal man is but a variation of himself. As Dean Church puts it: 'The ideal man with Wordsworth is the hard-headed, frugal, unambitious dalesman of his own hills, with his strong affections, his simple tastes, and his quiet and beautiful home; and this dalesman, built up by communion with nature and by meditation into the poet-philosopher, with his serious faith ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson
... Dedication Preface A Dalesman's Litany Cambodunum Telling the Bees The Two Lamplighters Our Beck Lord George Jenny Storm The New Englishman The Bells of Kirkby Overblow The gardener and the Robin Lile Doad His last Sail One Year Older The Hungry Forties ...
— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman
... catalogue of those ancient numerals by which the northern dalesman of a hundred years ago were still accustomed to reckon their sheep, words that go back to the ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Dalesman" :   occupier, resident, occupant


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