Country bumpkins

Usage examples of hicks.

I wondered how many other new ships were at sea that night, steaming out of other bays and rivers toward the war, each with its crew of Blackwells and Beaches, Foleys and Ferronis, Hickses, Helimans and DeCosters.

Hitherto in his relations with the Hickses he had carefully avoided the least allusion that might make him feel the heavy hand of their beneficence.

There was fascination in the thought that, among the rabble of vulgar uneducated royalties who overran Europe from Biarritz to the Engadine, gambling, tangoing, and sponging on no less vulgar plebeians, they, the unobtrusive and self-respecting Hickses, should have had the luck to meet this cultivated pair, who joined them in gentle ridicule of their own frivolous kinsfolk, and whose tastes were exactly those of the eccentric, unreliable and sometimes money-borrowing persons who had hitherto represented the higher life to the Hickses.