Sentence example with the word 'yeoman'

yeoman

agriculturalist, black gang, commissary steward, dirt farmer, footboy, harvester, landing signalman, page, rancher, sower, torpedoman

Definition n. officer in the

Last update: October 24, 2015


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He realized that with the enclosure of the waste lands and the absorption of small into large ho] dings, the commonfield farmer must migrate to the town or become a hired labourer; but he also realized that to feed a rapidly growing industrial population, the land must be improved by draining, marling, manuring and the use of better implements, in short by the investment of the capital which the yeoman farmer, content to feed himself and his own family, did not possess.   [Please select]

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A yeoman captain.   [Please select]

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Hosmer, a yeoman, of whose homely and self-acquired wisdom Mr.   [Please select]

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On his father's side Jefferson came from sound yeoman stock, in which Welsh blood ran.   [Please select]

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Mr Shirley had been a yeoman twenty years before his nephew was born.   [Please select]

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Too often the good soldier made only an indifferent yeoman.   [Please select]

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