| Pop harbored enough irony to give it the benefit of the doubt, at any rate, and only the mossback modernist critics condemned it as pandering to mass culture. |
| You cannot have the new farmer unless you also have the mossback. |
| They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it. |
| The mossback cannot win, because he prefers a flintlock to a Mauser. |
| Especially was this true in dealing with the riverman's arch-enemy, the mossback. |
| The mossback threw a stick of stove-wood at him, and he lumbered clumsily away across the snow. |
