dairy-farmer

• “Woodend became altogether distasteful to him; and as he had obtained both substance and experience by his management of that little farm, he resolved to employ them as a dairy-farmer, or cowfeeder, as they are called in Scotland.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “The second year, she was upgraded to a Dutch dairy-farmer costume and the production company acquired an actual cow.”

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• “When my aunt* and cousin from Richmond, VA visited recently, I had an experience that felt straight out of a Michael Moore documentary where America seems like crazy-land--trying to explain the Atkins diet to my dairy-farmer uncle:”

  You Want Some Cheese With That Bread?

• “Vowing vengeance on the young lime-burner for his mischievous interference between a nobleman and his secretly-wedded wife, the dairy-farmer determined to balk him.”

  The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

• “Anyway the cow worries me with its continual fog-horn, and I thought I would write to the owner (a small local dairy-farmer) to see if he could manage to find another field in which to batten this cow, where it could moo till it broke its silly tonsils for all I should care; so I indited this to him: --”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28

• “Any one who has pondered on the ways of the meadow-ant – that influential dairy-farmer, with her prosperous herds of aphides, cared for with the same transparently self-interested devotion as the cottager's pig; and on the mind of the aphis – which allows itself to be milked and driven with such cowlike placidity; and on the hill-ants – who surreptitiously milk each other's cows – need never be dull.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• “He wore the ordinary white pinner and leather leggings of a dairy-farmer when milking, and his boots were clogged with the mulch of the yard; but this was all his local livery.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “The nature of his country led the Hollander to be either a sailor or a dairy-farmer, not an artisan or operative.”

  History of Holland

• “She likes you very well, but she will want me to look a little higher than a small dairy-farmer, and marry a professional man.”

  The Return of the Native

• “Marin County offers some important advantages to the dairy-farmer.”

  Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

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