Yet when one thinks of the famed Tory backwoodsmen of the House of Lords, it is hard to regard the aristocracy as a hotbed of dissent. |
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While himself a college teacher, his sharply observant eye focused on the sturdy backwoodsmen and their families. |
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But backwoodsmen were better at dealing with rebellious Indian chiefs than perfumed dandies were. |
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Why should I leave the choice to a bunch of tobacco-chewing backwoodsmen who aren't even bright enough to mark the voting papers properly? |
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Montana is in fact a beautiful part of the United States, one associated with rugged backwoodsmen and scenic wilderness. |
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Make sure you've got some forward-thinking farmers on it, not the ubiquitous industry backwoodsmen. |
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I can see that being popular with the Tory backwoodsmen in the House of Commons. |
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Small-town folk were the backbone of the country, then they were daffy oddly-accented backwoodsmen. |
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The bavarians are not the least bit worried about this, as they are well aware that they are no longer seen as the backwoodsmen of the nation. |
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He finally succeeded in settling in Kentucky in 1775, having cut the Wilderness Road with thirty other backwoodsmen and founded the town of Boonesborough. |
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Whether as stimulant or a sedative such tales must have stirred the deepest wells of political consciousness in the most backward of backwoodsmen. |
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It has always been thick with reactionary backwoodsmen susceptible to Mr Haider's populism. |
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These backwoodsmen whisper in the president's ear that if he relinquishes office he will be hauled before the International Criminal Court. |
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The first residents were a colourful mixture of Canadian backwoodsmen, company craftsmen and troops, convicts, slaves, prostitutes, and indigents. |
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But after his backbenchers and backwoodsmen made plain this was one thing they would not wear, Cameron threw both the Tory machine and the considerable Tory bankbook at the operation. |
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As his ratings have soared, the whiff of power has bound together his improbable alliance of right-wing backwoodsmen and unreconstructed leftists. |
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