1 At a little distance on the right hand, a fountain of the purest water trickled out of the rock, and was received in a hollow stone, which labour had formed into a rustic basin.
2 Few of these were armed otherwise than with such rustic weapons as necessity sometimes converts to military purposes.
3 She saw a secret little clearing, and a secret little hut made of rustic poles.
4 But she sat on the log doorstep, under the rustic porch, and snuggled into her own warmth.
5 She stood up in the handbreadth of dryness under the rustic porch.
6 I would have everything as complete as possible in the country, shrubberies and flower-gardens, and rustic seats innumerable: but it must all be done without my care.
7 Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 8 In spite of the light brown dustcoat and leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Scotland Yard.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 9 My friend knocked at the little rustic door, and knocked again without response.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 10 With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
11 Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
12 But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds.
13 The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
14 There was a seat for Mr. Peggotty too, but he preferred to stand, leaning his hand on the small rustic table.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 15 This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES