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Example sentences for: yeoman

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The improvements in roads and means of transportation that had in part been responsible for the decline of the yeoman economy now made it possible for more visitors to view the natural beauty of the Lakes region.
Jefferson favored the rural, a nation of imaginary yeoman farmers who would eventually twirl pheasants in New Jersey.
Horwitz makes us see that the pinched circumstances of their lives are not so different from the conditions of their ancestors, dirt-poor yeoman farmers who seldom saw, much less owned, a slave.
The time of Bede and Beowulf were the hey-days--or ha! -days--for the letter h . Besides providing early aspiration for many words, h did yeoman service in front of the consonants l, n, r , and w .
The yeoman, or statesman, economy thrived for some 300 years, but with the rise in automation brought by the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, the demand for hand-crafted goods such as cloth plummeted — machine-produced goods were more plentiful and considerably less expensive.