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From wealthy Abbot's chests, and churl's abundant store,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

''Tis some base-born churl's son that the wizard Merlin would foist upon us!' cried the barons.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

Nabal's fields from other rovers, and had been, so to speak, a wall of fire between the churl's estate and the hand of depredation.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

The man who shrunk from lion-hunters, and who could return the churl's answer to the advances of sycophant and flatterer, enthusiastically poured out for the ungainly mountain boy all the rare quality and bouquet of his seasoned personal charm.

The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

The backwoods dandy scowled and gave back the churl's response, "Thet's my business."

A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

[203] Pepwell inserts: "it is but churl's meat, for."

The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

"Glasgerion" was written, we see it is assumed that a churl's relation to his mistress is confined to the mere act of sexual intercourse; he fails to kiss her on arriving or departing; it is only the knight, the man of upper class, who would think of offering that tender civility.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

It seems a churl's part not to laugh, as did our fathers before us, at the humours of the conventional parasite or impossible serving-man; but we laugh because we will, and not because we must.

Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

The knight's brow darkened, for that a churl's hands should touch a high-born lady's face seemed to him something monstrous and against nature; but in the moment he had forgotten something.

Via Crucis 1881

"Not enough is thy wealth, and I grieve right sore, that thou must needs run here and there like s churl's son; but I can tell thee where there is much wealth for the winning, and great name and honour to be won in getting of it."

The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873