bucolic

• Ned Farmer was a notable Midland man at that time; notable for his bucolic appearance, his genial personality, and, most of all, for the well-known songs he wrote. —  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
• Every morning at ten o'clock, I went to walk in the Luxembourg with a Virgil and a Rousseau in my pocket, and there, until the hour of dinner, I passed away the time in restoring to my memory a sacred ode or a bucolic, without being discouraged by forgetting, by the study of the morning, what I had learned the evening before. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
• The faces of the audience which packed the place were something wonderful to see; their desire to laugh at a tall, red-faced man who looks like a bucolic Bill Nye struggling into his coat, and then horror at seeing the Chief Justice in his shirt-sleeves, was a terrible effort -- and no one would help him, on the principle, I suppose, that the Queen of Spain has no legs. —  Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
• Then he returned by a roundabout route to a point in the lane a few yards above where the car had formerly stood and out of sight of McDougall's house. —  Best Detective Stories
• He saw little light until his attention was drawn to a quaint and philosophic gentleman — a kind of bucolic Ben Franklin — who was then obscurely working in the cotton lands of Louisiana, making warfare on the boll weevil in a way of his own. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page

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