| And yet all I can think is how a nutritionally deprived Irish immigrant, a backwoodsman and a 16th-century carpenter managed to possess such fantastically white teeth. |
| The backwoodsman doesn't really need his wallpaper changed, does he? |
| They felt that in comparison with men like Seward and Chase, Lincoln was a political pygmy, a backwoodsman, still largely unknown, and a speaker who tried to conceal his inadequacies by telling homespun stories. |
| He went about as a backwoodsman naturally does, without posturing or swagger. |
| Every backwoodsman carries on all occasions, the means of furnishing his meat. |
| It must not be supposed that the life of a backwoodsman is all pleasure and excitement. |
