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Woodsman in sentence

10 examples of Woodsman in a sentence

There is also city man's disdain and feeling of superiority to the rural woodsman "cracker".
As soon as she gets there, she begins to see a painting play mind games with her, a severed hand, and a multitude of strange deaths occur whenever she asks someone to explain the secret her husband is hiding and why a woodsman lives nearby.
I am not so bad a woodsman as to show the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him."
"A woodsman's mark, and at woodsman's distance, I can hit," answered the yeoman.
"Because," replied the woodsman, "I know not if these yeomen and I are used to shoot at the same marks; and because, moreover, I know not how your Grace might relish the winning of a third prize by one who has unwittingly fallen under your displeasure."
He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target so broad as had hitherto been used, was to put shame upon his skill.
"His name," said the hermit--"his name is Sir Anthony of Scrabelstone--as if I would drink with a man, and did not know his name!""Thou hast been drinking more than enough, friar," said the woodsman, "and, I fear, prating more than enough too."
"Thou compel!" said the friar; "wait but till have changed this grey gown for a green cassock, and if I make not a quarter-staff ring twelve upon thy pate, I am neither true clerk nor good woodsman."
"You can speak to no one," replied the knight, "to whom England, and the life of every Englishman, can be dearer than to me.""I would willingly believe so," said the woodsman, "for never had this country such need to be supported by those who love her.
"I love a jolly woodsman at heart," said the Prior, softening his tone; "come, ye must not deal too hard with me--I can well of woodcraft, and can wind a horn clear and lustily, and hollo till every oak rings again--Come, ye must not deal too hard with me.""Give him a horn," said the Outlaw; "we will prove the skill he boasts of."