The dalesmen were a primitive and hardy race who kept alive the traditions and often the habits of a more picturesque time. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
For nowhere better than among these "dalesmen" can the English elemental resistance to fusion be seen. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
Bernard Gilpin, the apostle of the north, the first who undertook to preach the Protestant doctrines to the Border dalesmen, was surprised, on entering one of their churches, to see a gauntlet, or mail-glove, hanging above the altar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In their early days, the present generation of dalesmen fed almost exclusively upon oatmeal; either as ‘hasty-pudding,’ — that is, ❋ Unknown (2006)
Jago was far more widely traveled than most dalesmen, who perhaps in a whole lifetime know little beyond four or five dales outside their own birthplace. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
I know that dalesmen look upon women as possessions, perhaps to be wooed and indulged for a season, and then, once won, to be a part of the household like hawk, hound, or horse. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
When the dalesmen retreated into their keeps, the monsters bore inward with their weight against the walls, bringing them down. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
By birth and inclination dalesmen are not sea-rovers. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
For we dalesmen know that the instincts of beasts about some of the ancient remains are more to be relied upon than our own. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
But what held me most were the references to the Old Ones, those who had ruled this land before the first of the dalesmen came north. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
This had none too good a reputation with the dalesmen and was seldom entered, mainly because it had been rumored to cover some ruin of the Old Ones. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
I knew that there was speculation among the dalesmen concerning me. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
I besought the Flame that those fleeing had won the rugged land where their guides could lead them by routes only dalesmen knew. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
Her hair, like my own, was darker than usual, for the dalesmen tend to be fair and ruddy. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
There are those who even now make off-warding signs at dalesmen from those parts, saying that, when our folk moved thither to settle, there were still Old Ones, seeming like ourselves; and that our people - the Borderers - entered into a blood-mixing with these, the offspring therefrom being not altogether human. ❋ Norton, Andre (1972)
Real character, he holds, the chief proper object of man's effort, is formed by quietly living, as did he and the dalesmen around him, in contact with Nature and communion with God rather than by participation in the feverish and sensational struggles of the great world. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)
In 1845 J.H. Dixon wrote of several men he had met, chiefly Yorkshire dalesmen, not vagrants, but with a local habitation, who at Christmas-tide would sing the old ballads. ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
What must have been the thoughts, I wonder, of the dalesmen who on different occasions had to go over the pass at night in those still recent times when wraithes and hobs were terrible realities? ❋ Gordon Home (1923)
April sky from which the sun had passed to leave all the west that gold-green that the greatest of Westmoreland dalesmen loved; by way of that Dumfries peasant whose ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)
