"How much resistance do you think even a large number of dirt farmers or sheepherders would offer such brigands?"
That kind of a day a dumb dirt farmer's privileged to experience once in his life, if God's good to him.
"I used to be a dirt farmer back on Earth," he explained.
He knew soil; he'd grown up as a dirt farmer, after all.
My parents, who had paid for four years of college, saw me as a dirt farmer.
A few dirt farmers raised beans, and piled their refuse into large heaps.
"I took a lesson from these dirt farmers," Rivas said.
"Gene, after all, grew up as a dirt farmer to become one of the wealthiest people in America."
And a face like a dirt farmer too, she'd thought.
The Barnettes were nothing but poor dirt farmers, most of them living worse than slaves.