74 examples of bumpkin in sentences

"Did you see that ardent bumpkin embracing his sweetheart?"

What a figure he cuts there, sitting in solitary state upon his glass tripod,in the middle of a crowd of excited fellow-beings, hurried to and fro by their passions and sympathies,like an awkward country-bumpkin caught in the midst of a gay crowd of polkers and waltzers at a ball,or an oyster bedded on a rock, with silver fishes playing rapid games of hide and seek, love and hate, in the clear briny depths above and beneath!

But all ryots are not alike, and when the putwarrie gets hold of some unwary and ignorant bumpkin whom he can plunder, he does plunder him systematically.

There are some slight records left of the opening of a "Theatre Royal, Minto," and of a glorious evening ending in an "excellent country bumpkin," with bed at two in the morning; of reels and dances, too, and many hours laconically summed up as "famous fun" in the diary.

A waistcoat of glaring scarlet will be esteemed by a country bumpkin a garment every way preferable to one of aspect more subdued.

When a country-fellow comes upon the stage, you will see twenty faces in the boxes putting on the bumpkin expression.

In ordinary times the congregation could have advanced the seventy-five dollars necessary to keep the rain from trickling through the roof and leaking in a steady stream upon the pew of Mrs. Bumpkin, a lady too useful in knitting sweaters for the heathen in South Africa to be ignored.

And some pictures which had been donated by Mrs. Bumpkin sold for thirty-one dollars, and the gambling cakes, with rings and gold dollars in them, cleared fifteen.

The pounds of material which were fashioned into Shakspeare might have made a bumpkin with little thought beyond pigs and turnips, or, by some slight difference beyond man's skill to trace, might have made an idiot.

The bumpkin who is a bumpkin at thirty must remain a bumpkin to threescore and ten.

The bumpkin who is a bumpkin at thirty must remain a bumpkin to threescore and ten.

The bumpkin who is a bumpkin at thirty must remain a bumpkin to threescore and ten.

This abrupt question was put to the gaping bumpkin, already known to the reader, who, with the nether garment just received from the tailor under his arm, had lingered, to add the incidents of the present legend to the stock of lore that he had already obtained for the ears of his kinsfolk in the country.

Like his English representative, the Indian village bumpkin has a natural aversion to town life.

Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.

Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.

Bumpkin!

Teddy Bear of Bumpkin Hollow.

Her innocent forsooths, yess, and't please yous, and she would do her Endeavour, moved the good old Lady to take her out of the Hands of a Country Bumpkin her Brother, and hire her for her own Maid.

"It was passing kind, gracious mistress," he responded, forcing himself to speak naturally and in agreeable tones, "to remember an insignificant country bumpkin like myself ... and you see I have presumed on your lavish hospitality and brought my young friend, Master Richard Lambert, to whom you extended so gracious an invitation.

She was not ordinary, as could be sensed by even an ignorant bumpkin like me.

She soon returned to the company, and began flirting with Matthias Trickey, who was no older than I, and just as much of a country bumpkin.

The idea of appeasing the wrath of a ferocious deity by burning an animal alive is probably no more than a theological gloss put on an old heathen rite; it would hardly occur to the simple mind of an English bumpkin, who, though he may be stupid, is not naturally cruel and does not conceive of a divinity who takes delight in the contemplation of suffering.

Again, a Bardney bumpkin told how a witch in his neighbourhood could take all sorts of shapes.

Little more than a year ago he would hardly have opened his mouth, and would have worn the true bumpkin look of contemptuous sheepishness.

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