"Clodhopper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a peasant whom he thought rude, "You are better fed than taught." "Shud think I was," replied the clodhopper, "as I feeds myself and you ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... "Thou clodhopper'" yelled Swallow, unsympathetically. "An thou cannot master a cask of wine, thou wilt never master the King's law. To the kitchen with thee; and keep thy eyes shut, thou knave of a posse." The constable made a dive for his pike and lantern, and enforced ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... speech, and a fear came to her which blanched her cheeks and caught at her throat. The hand which held her dainty parasol of lace shook, and an indescribable thrill ran through her veins. She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination. In many ways he fell short of all the usual standards by which the men of her class were judged, yet she suddenly realised that he possessed a touch of that quality which lifted him ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Englishwoman did ... A certain red-haired clodhopper came to us here. She must have been important, because she came with a whole retinue ... all some sort of officials ... But before her had come the assistant of the commissioner, with the precinct inspector Kerbesh. And the assistant directly forewarned ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin |
