"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.