good-man

In addition to these comforts, the good-man would now and then sally forth to the greenwood, and mark down a buck of season with his gun or his cross-bow; and the Father Confessor seldom refused him absolution for the trespass, if duly invited to take his share of the smoking haunch.

The Monastery 2008

"We're waiting to get in, good-man," Drotte called.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

And whenever we think of our honored ancestry, it is not as individual adventurers; but we see the good-man, the good-wife, and their children, as the representatives of the great body of those, who with them planted homes, families, society, civilization, in the Western World.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

To be the douce good-man, and all the tales of storm forgotten by the neighbours that may have kent them; to sit perhaps with bairns -- her bairns and mine -- about my knee, and never a twinge of the old damnable inclinations, and the flageolet going to the honestest tunes.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"A queer bit of a town, good-man Fairweather, the saints have built up for themselves," exclaimed a man in a sailor's jacket.

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint.

Collection of Scotch Proverbs Pappity Stampoy

Did not the lowing kine then troop back from the summer pastures in the forests and on the hills to be fed and cared for in the stalls, while the bleak winds whistled among the swaying boughs and the snow-drifts deepened in the hollows? and could the good-man and the good-wife deny to the spirits of their dead the welcome which they gave to the cows?

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Did not the lowing kine then troop back from the summer pastures in the forests and on the hills to be fed and cared for in the stalls, while the bleak winds whistled among the swaying boughs and the snow-drifts deepened in the hollows? and could the good-man and the good-wife deny to the spirits of their dead the welcome which they gave to the cows?

Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 6. The Hallowe’en Fires 1922

And this know, that if the good-man of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

Did not the lowing kine then troop back from the summer pastures in the forests and on the hills to be fed and cared for in the stalls, while the bleak winds whistled among the swaying boughs and the snow-drifts deepened in the hollows? and could the good-man and the good-wife deny to the spirits of their dead the welcome which they gave to the cows?

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897