He went about as a backwoodsman naturally does, without posturing or swagger. |
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. |
None but a seaman or a backwoodsman could have accomplished the undertaking so rapidly, if at all. |
Only the ex-beauty queen and the spooky backwoodsman remain halfway normal. |
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. |
Every backwoodsman carries on all occasions, the means of furnishing his meat. |