Countrified

What was the use of Boston, and all its beautiful sights and busy sounds, if you must walk right along as if you were going to church, and not seem to see nor hear any of the wonders, for fear of being called countrified? ❋ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1877)

His version of "I Got A Woman" has what only can be described as a countrified soul. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They probably think we're kind of countrified here in South Bend. ❋ Stephanie Capparell (2008)

DELGADO: He's a real character, a real kind of countrified Texas character, and he started getting like that, and I knew that he was getting better. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Fanny did n't say "countrified," but she meant it, and ❋ Unknown (1950)

She tried to revert to the question once or twice later, but now Paul alternated between shaming her laughingly for her gullibility and making fun of her "countrified" interest in the affairs of her servants. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

To find him here, an associate and friend of the people she had called "countrified," was most astonishing. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

"Well, I daresay you'll be safest to walk," said the porter, rather afraid of getting himself into a scrape if he fetched the children a fly without proper authority, and feeling uncertain, from their very plain and rather "countrified" appearance, if their friends belonged to the fly patronising class or not. ❋ Unknown (1882)

His speech and his ways were "countrified," and they remained so all the days of his life. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

There was much washing and mending and altering, sewing on of trimmings and letting down of tucks, to be done for her; for Mrs. Breynton desired to spare her the discomfort of feeling "countrified," and Yorkbury style was not distinctively _a la Paris_. ❋ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1877)

Fanny did n't say "countrified," but she meant it, and Polly felt uncomfortable. ❋ Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1870)

Even city councillor George Bowser was issued a warning in 2006 after he inadvertently played a distinctly "countrified" chord progression on his guitar while performing with his daughter, Jeanne, at Family Day, and last year a family on Belmont Avenue received a visit from PSOs while watching the movie 'Coal Miner's Daughter' with their front windows open. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And we did a kind of countrified version, but it's also a song that they play in New Orleans at jazz funerals: they play it on the way home in an up-tempo version. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The music they play is a kind of countrified retro pop that wouldn’t seem out of place in a David Lynch movie, but the whole point here is Deschanel as object of worship. ❋ Hogan, Michael (2008)

Expect the band to dig into this countrified new material with aplomb and pedal steel. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

Getty Images Bubba Watson Bubba Watson, one of America's most charmingly countrified Tour pros, didn't exactly win over the French at this week's Alstom Open de France near Paris. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Only a countrified version of "New Orleans," the original appearing on TBT's breakthrough album Palomino, connects him to that past life, while 10 new numbers offer an exploration into a deeper, darker soul. ❋ Michael Bialas (2011)