There once was a tendency to describe magnanimous persons of quality, and repulsive clodhoppers and villagers.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Some clodhoppers roystering in the tap room forbade sleep at first and as I am not wont to hear the quarters stricken the Abbey bells roused me at frequent intervals and made me swear roundly.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
"You know he'd have to git performers, tight-rope walkers, hoop-jumpers, bareback riders, an' the like, an' these mountain clodhoppers ain't in practice.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben