Besides such epithets as hayseed and clodhopper, contemptuous in their very origin, villain (farm servant), churl (farm laborer), and boor (peasant) have all gathered unto themselves opprobrium; villain now involves a scoundrelly spirit, churl a contumelious manner, boor a bumptious ill-breeding; not one of these words is any longer confined in its application to a particular social rank.

If her father sees Hunter make eyes at her he'll blow the head off the clodhopper.

I spend half my days teaching clodhoppers how to fold hired togas properly behind the neck.

[Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^, tyke, tike, chuff^, ryot^, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^; rustic, hayseed

But THE PHEASANT-HEN This clodhopper, see now, whom I picked up off his haystackand to rule alone in his soul is apparently quite beyond my power!

THE LONG-NOSED MONKEY LINE BLOCKS AN AUTHENTIC STANDARD FOOT THESE BEASTS ARE ALL CLODHOPPERS, AND THEIR FEET ARE HOBNAILED BOOTS IT HAS TO DOUBLE THEM UNDER AND HOBBLE

[Illustration: THESE BEASTS ARE ALL CLODHOPPERS, AND THEIR FEET ARE HOBNAILED BOOTS.]

These beasts are all clodhoppers, and their feet are hobnailed boots.

If you wanted a young girl, if your immoderate appetites were not satisfied with what you had under your nose, is there no cautious person in the village who would have been proud and happy to be of service to you, and whom you could have married to some clodhopper or to some Chrysostom ready for the opportunity; whilst that one, whom will you give her to?

He was only a peasant, a clodhopper of the wilds; if her mouth had been as it was now from the start she would never have taken him; be sure of that.

Living in obscurity, without the capital or sagacity to make himself known to the public, he is at the mercy of those who are interested in keeping him in privacy and buying his artistic labors at the wages of a clodhopper.

A clodhopper might knock a mast out of a vessel, but a sailor must replace it.

Simple Susie, who had seen nothing of young men besides the awkward and blushing clodhoppers of Chaney Creek, was somewhat dazzled by the free-and-easy speech and manner of the hard-cheeked bagman.

Confronted with short storiesand novels also, for that mattertold with a skill which makes the old masters of fiction look like clumsy amateurs; confronted, too, with a thousand poetsthe number is scarcely an exaggerationwith accomplishments of metre and style that make some famous singers seem like clodhoppers of the muse, one is obliged to ask oneself: "Are these brilliant writers really greater than those that went before?

Doctor Clodhopper's footsies.

Doctor Clodhopper's footsies.

Evidently he had no fear of being-called a "clodhopper" or a "hayseed!"

The long and short of it is that my daughter isn't good enough for your damn, flat-footed clodhopper of a son.

You cannot be very conceited about a game in which the first clodhopper you meet can give you ten minutes' start in an hour.

There is something dignified and antique in land, and no one need trouble himself to ascertain whether "farmer" stood for a close-fisted, narrow-souled clodhopper, or the smiling, benevolent master of broad acres.

She was like the Thorndykescity folks, educated people, who could have no use for a clodhopper like me, a canal hand, a rough character.

But if, as sometimes happens, the dove stops short in its career and fizzles out, revealing itself as a stuffed bird with a packet of squibs tied to its tail, great is the consternation, and deep the curses that issue from between the set teeth of the clodhoppers, who now give up the harvest for lost.

The stalwart clodhoppers now seized the two ends of the rope and went to work with a will.

They were frightful clodhoppers who seemed to find it necessary to talk and laugh boisterously in restaurants and cafes.