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Example sentences for: yeoman

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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.
Rockefeller's flack did a yeoman's job of placing warm stories about this scourge of the corporate high seas.
Jefferson favored the rural, a nation of imaginary yeoman farmers who would eventually twirl pheasants in New Jersey.
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 .
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”