| In Greece, rich aristocrats used gold and silver in life, while poor rustics used wooden vessels. |
| Won't the degenerate rustics of Sherston, so clearly in need of protection from themselves, go back to their ancient uncouth ways? |
| But if you visualise Owen as one of those red-faced rustics going about his business with a straw in his mouth, you are well off track. |
| It also started a trend which saw the country as the mist-covered heather-clad mountains of home, peopled by well-meaning rustics. |
| Still the rustics were at a loss to explain why they continued to consume non-vegetarian food. |
| The phrase puts me in mind of pub engravings, of rustics in waistcoats lying full-length in rowing boats, poking at ducks with long muskets. |
