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gentlemen farmers

n. (context rare English) (gentleman farmer English)

Usage examples of "gentlemen farmers".

It had been the tragedy of her younger days that thanks to this voice she had been endlessly pursued by the gentlemen farmers and debs' delights and somethings in the city whom she despised with all her heart, while the greenies and peacemarchers and world--changers with whom she instinctively felt at home treated her with deep suspicion, bordering on resentment.

My ancestors were gentlemen farmers, and my mother thought they used the tower as a lookout - to spy on the field hands and see if they were loafing.

They had expected to live out their lives as gentlemen farmers on a remote, pastoral world far from the cares of the Iron Legion.

There had been no Leah kings since, and the family had survived as gentlemen farmers and craftsmen over the years.

They had never had any trouble, and although their house was positioned far back from the road and hidden by a veil of trees, they lived in a neighborhood of gentlemen farmers.