| 单词 | ploughshare |
| 例句 | Mayhap he turned his sword to ploughshare; but perhaps, too, all was combat now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The foragers could either run away, abandoning their hunting grounds to field and pasture, or take up the ploughshare themselves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From Tahrir Square to the Occupy Movement, technology is reshaping political commitment and activism; the swords may be bent, but not yet into ploughshares. How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z The material for swords and ploughshares are interchangeable, depending on fluctuating demands. Bronze sculptures in 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty capture pivotal era 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He beseeches the faithful to beat their lawn mowers into ploughshares, to turn their churchyards into gardens. How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But in their upturned state, they are as reminiscent of cooking pots as dead soldiers; swords may still be beaten into ploughshares. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z The General is about a powerful military leader who finally sees the light, and sends his soldiers home to turn their swords to ploughshares. Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z “I’m not one for beating swords into ploughshares,” he said, shaking his head. This Ukrainian was famed for playful sculptures. Now his art melds war debris and rage 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z A blacksmith in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk is practically beating swords into ploughshares, and turning one man’s trash into treasures. The flowers of war: Ukraine smith turns guns, ammo into art 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Hope, a ploughshare tortoise, has been given a new home at Chester Zoo after being found in a suitcase by Hong Kong customs officers in 2019. Three-legged ploughshare tortoise finds new life on rollers 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z It was there that she started hearing about the plowshares movement, a reference to a Bible passage that refers to the end of all war: “They will beat their swords into ploughshares.” Nun imprisoned over peace activism, Megan Rice, dies at 91 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z In 2013 authorities at Bangkok's main airport busted a smuggler carrying 54 ploughshare tortoises from Madagascar crammed in a suitcase. Life after wildlife trafficking: what happens to rescued animals? 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z While its title touched on the loss she had experienced early in life, its contents, inspired by a love for the inspirational anthems of India.Arie, aimed to turn swords into ploughshares. R&B star Kehlani: ‘You can’t believe that everybody means what they say about you’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z But when Jamie imagines which object might be sent into space as an emissary to alien cultures, she opts for a Neolithic stone ploughshare. Climate and crisis: what survives 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z “Surely this is now time to beat our swords into ploughshares.” Zimbabwe’s Mugabe could be a fierce, captivating speaker 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Surely, he said, this is the time to beat our swords into ploughshares. Mugabe and me 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z In 2013, for example, Thai authorities arrested a man trying to smuggle 54 ploughshare tortoises from Madagascar—an estimated 10 percent of all ploughshare tortoises remaining in the wild. Young Collectors Help Fuel a Boom in Ultra-Exotic Pets 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Six of the tortoises were ploughshares, named for the plough-like shape of their lower shells, and 72 were radiated, a name that describes the star pattern on their shells. 78 Rare Tortoises Stolen From Breeding Center Only about 500 ploughshares hold on in the forests of northwestern Madagascar. Poachers May Drive These 7 Species to Extinction 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The prophet Isaiah even tells us that when the messiah enters into human history, he will “beat spears and swords into ploughshares and pruning hooks.” Gun Control Is a Pro-Life Value 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Spears and swords will be beaten into ploughshares, and pruning hooks and communities will seek the way of peace. Prayer Isn’t the Problem—Inaction Is 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The trade in Indian star tortoises now provides cover for trade in species that are even more at risk: Madagascar’s radiated tortoise and ploughshare tortoise, both critically endangered. How the Growing Trade in One Tortoise Puts Others at Risk 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Once, a dead ploughshare tortoise was dumped on the charity's doorstep, a Godfather-like threat not to intervene in the highly lucrative black market for tortoises. Will animals of the future only be safe in captivity? - BBC News 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Carving into the ploughshares' shells to disfigure them is the equivalent of removing all horns from rhinos or tusks from elephants to stop those animals from being poached. Drastic action to save endangered tortoise - BBC News 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He transformed it from a maker of ploughshares into a plumbing business. The silent minority 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Christmas joy will only be realized when weapons are transformed "into ploughshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness," Francis concluded before giving the crowd his blessing. Pope wishes Christmas hope and peace for Mideast 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The radiated tortoise has a starry pattern on its shell, very similar to the Indian star tortoise, and the ploughshare has a protective neck plate below its chin shaped like the blade of a plow. How the Growing Trade in One Tortoise Puts Others at Risk 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Pete shouted, “Let’s beat ‘em into ploughshares!” And he began to sing and play his five-string banjo, asking, as he always did, for everyone to join in. My unforgettable meeting with Pete Seeger 2014-01-29T13:15:00Z One site listed a ploughshare tortoise over 30 years old with a price tag of $37,900. Drastic action to save endangered tortoise - BBC News 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Something about swords and ploughshares, it seemed for at least a moment. NASA Recreates Picture That Changed the World 2013-12-24T10:50:23Z In an updated version of swords being beaten into ploughshares, Khojazada said his company smelts the tanks into steel bars, and is now eager to do the same with U.S. equipment. Afghan scrap yards eye unwanted U.S. gear for steel industry 2013-05-15T06:44:32Z Or a tan ploughshare, of which there are fewer than 200 mature adults left in the wild? How the Growing Trade in One Tortoise Puts Others at Risk 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Durrell continues a small captive-breeding program for the ploughshares, with the intention of supplementing current wild populations. How Poachers Stole 10% of an Entire Tortoise Species...and What Happened Next 2013-05-08T20:15:00.207Z "All of these approaches have their routes in the ancient biblical reference of turning swords into ploughshares," she said in her email. Connecticut lawsuit questions origin of gun buy-back program 2013-04-16T02:22:11Z Madagascar's three other endemic species of tortoise; the flat tailed tortoise, the radiated tortoise and the ploughshare tortoise, are also listed as Critically Endangered. Last stand of the spider tortoise 2012-09-02T23:58:17Z Beating swords to ploughshares refers to turning weapons of war to peaceful purposes. Swords to ploughshares, abandoned Soviet tanks to steel bars 2012-07-25T13:45:58Z It may be objected by some that this talk of tenement-building, and livestock, ploughshares and harvest-home has little to do with monastic life, since it is but the common routine of every manor. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The journey for these 54 ploughshare tortoises began in northwestern Madagascar within the remote Ankarafantsika National Park, which was established after the species was rediscovered there. How Poachers Stole 10% of an Entire Tortoise Species...and What Happened Next 2013-05-08T20:15:00.207Z Yet men turn their ploughshares into swords, and hew living flesh with their axes. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Its social evils will be banished; its weapons of war turned to ploughshares and pruning hooks. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Should the historical ploughshare be driven through the other towns in the county, and the towns generally of Massachusetts, it would turn up similar gems in abundance, "of purest ray serene." Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z Of that there could be no doubt, and his mother must have walked on red-hot ploughshares when she beheld him going straight to ruin. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z On these two marches not a stone has been seen which could strike a ploughshare. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Originally our Secretaries of the Treasury were amateurs, like our generals who beat ploughshares into swords. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The ploughshare passes over, and where are those busy troops? Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The man who guided the ploughshare, ye have called to seize the handles of your princedom, before his day's work was ended. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Rich is the harvest that rewards the peasant, however idle and ignorant, when he scratches with his rude ploughshare the surface of thy soil. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z She proved her innocence by passing unharmed over heated ploughshares. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z It was the mildest form of trial by ordeal ever devised, but no boiling water or hot ploughshare could have been more effective. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z This said, they forthwith vanished, and two wicked spirits arose, having in their hands ploughshares, and one of them struck me on the head, and the other on the foot. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z They marked out a space upon the green with the ploughshare, for the circuit of the city walls. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Ploughing, or what passes muster as such—a tickling of the surface by tiny wooden ploughshare identical with those of Roman days, drawn by yokes of tardy-plodding oxen—takes place in autumn. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z One was by taking up a piece of red-hot iron, weighing from one to three pounds, or walking barefoot and blindfolded over nine red-hot ploughshares placed lengthwise at irregular distances. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The walk across the fields had been a breathless penance, the ground burned the soles of Ernest's feet as red-hot ploughshares the feet of the saints. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The Stegosaurus, also an early settler in Wyoming, had huge bony plates, like ploughshares, sticking out all along his back from the nape of his neck to the end of his tail. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z What had been a level plain was scored and furrowed as by a mighty ploughshare. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Every year, for centuries possibly, a hard steel ploughshare has gone over that ground, turning over and over the top soil to a depth of six to eight inches. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Behold, I am left desolate, the garden that I called my heart is a wilderness—a wilderness ploughed up by the ploughshare of sorrow and bitterness, and so it lies fallow. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Even the earlier legends of St. Cunigund do not agree on this point; one makes her to have walked over burning ploughshares, another to have carried red-hot iron in her hands. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z When they turn their heads upside down they can stir the ooze to various depths, as required, by using the upper bill as a ploughshare and setting it at different angles. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z America, still unawed, proceeded to beat her ploughshares and pruning-hooks into broadswords; war, with all its horrors, ensued. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z These pieces, after they have been re-heated in the blacksmith's forge and again placed on the anvil, are shaped by the smith into square bars or into ploughshares or tyres, but mainly into bars. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Strange how the ploughshare turns up little tags and ends of forgotten rubbish buried by the mould of a few years' dust. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z Her Majesty offered to subject herself to the Judgment of God, either by duel or by the ordeal of burning ploughshares. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z The axe and the ploughshare are the two pens with which our New World annals have been principally written, with schoolhouses as notes of interrogation, and steeples as exclamation points of pious adoration and gratitude. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Enjoyment of Novelty.—Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon, women at once make it into an ornament. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z They go out to plough for the spring sowing in December; that is when the ploughshares cannot break the frozen ground. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z So many of them have been killed that when an earthtiller works in the springtime his ploughshare bites at every step on the skull of a pagan. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z An astute antiquarian eye, however, may define the site of the town by the few scattered bricks which the ploughshare has mingled with the ordinary tillage of the fields. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z "They do that because the margin is of a rocky consistency which no ploughshare will penetrate." 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z If I am not finely moulded, let me be made into some useful ploughshare or victorious sword. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z A woman sitting sewing a soldier's tunic into a little jacket for her urchin, and thus beating the sword into a ploughshare, stitches unconcernedly in the sun. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The land was wooded, trees would have to be felled, the ploughshare would have heavy work to do; but that is how courses are made to-day. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z And here, alas! you will stay, Till our iron roads are beaten into ploughshares, And Messrs. Cook & Sons are at rest. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z Over the ploughshare they soared and danced in joyous measure. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The ploughshare, heavy and drawn with great force, smooths the earth as it cleaves it, giving it for a time a ‘face’ as it were, the moisture on which reflects the light. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z They watched him in the spring, they came to borrow his plough in the autumn, and by the next season they had provided themselves with a ploughshare like his. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Our very good friend and visitor, the Czar, would have us disarm and turn our swords into ploughshares. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z But if the Roman knew how to beat his ploughshare into a sword, he also knew how to return from the sword to the plough. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The ploughshare was at work under them planing the stubble and filling the breeze with the scent of the earth. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z I long for the day when the sword shall be turned into the ploughshare, and the spear into the pruning-hook.” Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z There was need to improve your agriculture, giving you for your low-lying fields the ploughshare of the plain. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks." The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z He had been very late, he said, at the smithy, having a ploughshare sharpened, and had a middling long way to return home from the forge. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z The best and simplest general type of capital is a well-made ploughshare. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z It will probably ploughshare and harrow your heart, as the farmer ploughshares and harrows the field; but after this preparation, you can sow the seeds of your future happiness. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z And the Zabern incident and several others showed that the Crown Prince meant, when his chance came, to make war after the Napoleonic method and to exalt the sword above the pen and the ploughshare. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks." The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z Thou hast transformed the heavy, sharp ploughshare of life, which painfully toils at the harvest, into a light brush and pencil, which plays about till it has wrought out a god's form. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z As I neared the cavern I saw that at the spot of my greatest danger the day before, the ground was uptorn as if a giant ploughshare had passed that way. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z After the final destruction of the temple by the arms of Titus and Hadrian a ploughshare was drawn over the consecrated ground, as a sign of perpetual interdiction. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z The Danish politicians were turning their ploughshares into swords. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z But now, if swords are to be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks, where must that work begin? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z The “Daisy” falls not unheeded under his ploughshare; nor the ruined nest of that “wee, cowering, timorous beastie,” cast forth, after all its provident pains, to “thole the sleety dribble, and cranreuch cauld.” Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z They were here interrupted by the approach of a man with two mules; and by the sound of a ploughshare, our travellers rightly guessed that he was a husbandman. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Work first and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The ploughshare passed over that ground which had been the site of palaces in the time of the pestilence; and churches stood, and streets, where cemeteries had been glutted with the remains of thousands. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Then will our swords be beaten into ploughshares and our spears into pruning-hooks and we shall learn war no more! The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z He made a ploughshare and harnessed Epimetheus' oxen to it as he planted his fields with food grains. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z "The ploughshare and shame enter hand in hand into the family," says the national proverb. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z A cocoanut is then cut on the ploughshare, and from the cut portions several deductions are made. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Rutter pointed to a low shed that might have been a cow-house, but in point of fact contained a forge and some broken ploughshares. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z I want you carefully to notice that the sword is not to be destroyed; it is to be transformed; it is to become a ploughshare. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z In that final rush, the blackness in which the submarine moved, curled up and fell away from her bow like black earth on either side of a ploughshare—now like earth snow powdered. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z As she drove the ploughshare into the mould she might have seemed the type of a young civilization—so fine a thing in itself, so roughly accoutred. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The "wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower," as I called this book when it first made its appearance, has not been crushed with the ploughshare of criticism "among the stoure." How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z A ploughshare once made, remains a ploughshare, without any continuance of heating and hammering, and even after the man who heated and hammered it has been gathered to his fathers. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Salt is the only circulating medium; and a man’s wealth is estimated by the number of his ploughshares, which are carefully buried until wanted. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The tails are more like those of mammals than existing birds, in which there are usually from six to ten vertebræ terminating in the ploughshare bone. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Hence, one sees him wince and shrink, as his ploughshare destroys the daisy. A Day with the Poet Burns 2011-02-17T03:00:17.640Z The hunter must make way before the agriculturist, and the Indian must learn to take the bit between his teeth, and set his hand to the ploughshare, or perish. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Billowing fields of richest brown, where the ploughshare had made ready a bed for the seed corn and the hemp. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Fought we with sword and with ploughshare, Wresting our bread from the clod— Virgin and untouched we found it As left by the hand of our God. In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse 2011-01-18T03:00:12.493Z There's only this short road of red-hot ploughshares for us both to tread. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z "Swords into ploughshares" was the motto of the peace movement. No more BPs: we must turn our deserts into solar power 2010-07-06T07:30:00Z Already the White House is hard at work hammering its ploughshares into swords. The Pitchfork Primaries: Will Washington Get the Message? 2010-05-20T08:55:00Z I set my teeth and the ploughshare, and again Joe started the horses. The Idyl of Twin Fires The old man said that "he trusted the time had come when in this country the sword should be turned into a ploughshare, and the spear into a pruning-hook." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 Come on, brave captain, as hev had your eye-lids opened to the malice and wickedness of your employer, and join them as is going to groan no more under the harrows and ploughshares of oppression. The Parson O' Dumford Peg said that you would walk over burning ploughshares if you thought duty called; she's right. The Trail of Conflict Orders had come from Rome that the city was to be utterly destroyed; a ploughshare was to be drawn across the site and a solemn curse laid on any one who should ever rebuild there. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men It is only with the ploughshare that we turn up the earth; but the other parts of the plough are also necessary. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. Like Prometheus he lay chained to his barren sea-girt rock; and so the sword was hung up to rust, and the ploughshare and harrow resumed their sway. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers But Lannithorne, who has long since become accustomed to feeling the ploughshare of passion grind down to his uttermost rock, is perfectly ready with his response. The Sources Of Religious Insight I had succeeded before, oh, yes; but I could not help recalling just how hot the ploughshares were over which I had walked to reach that success. Life on the Stage These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency "Oh, pshaw!" said Burton, who was rather out of his element in trying to pick his way among the social ploughshares. A Romance in Transit Miss Brent spoke as if she were about to walk over heated ploughshares rather than to satisfy a natural curiosity. Patricia Brent, Spinster Sometimes we see farmers ploughing with three horses or mules, flocks of turkeys or chickens following in the wake of the plough and picking up the luscious morsels thrown up by the ploughshare. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway And I can gather a very good article of friendship from many a wayside bush without going over hot ploughshares to seek it. The Day of His Youth The war was at the very threshold, and angry men thought of turning the ploughshare into the sword. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency You know that as well as I. Why, look at the dream of universal peace—swords turned into ploughshares, lions and lambs lying down together, and all that sort of thing. Tales of South Africa Clodwig stopped, as if wearied, but he summoned up his strength afresh and cried: "This is the old grand saying: 'the swords shall be turned into ploughshares.'" Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The crows were wheeling behind the plough in scattering clusters, and plumping singly upon the soft, thick grubs which the ploughshare was turning out upon an unkindly world. International Short Stories English “It’s neither ploughshare, whittle, hook, nor crook, nor aught I’ve yet seen men handle.” Rewards and Fairies They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. The Sword He buys some acres and his struggle is frightful; you see his muscles bulging in his blue shirt, you smell his sweat, you hear the ploughshare gripped with the stones, teeth biting teeth. A Novelist on Novels The Anglo-Saxon ploughshare is busy in obliterating these memorials, but many yet survive, and many, perhaps, remain yet to be discovered. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Being very impatient, he relieved the boy of the heavy ploughshares, to enable the latter to keep up with him. Black Forest Village Stories "Bid her forget--what now is past-- Our once dear love, whose ruin lies Like a fair flower, the meadow's last, That feels the ploughshare's edge, and dies." Roman Women It's going to take a hell of a lot more than a silly ploughshare to convince those babies on that ship. The Sword O gracious Ruler, let Thy reign endure; In pruning-hook and ploughshare beat the sword, And reap the harvest sure! The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches Times have changed; swords have been beaten into ploughshares; and where the moat once encircled the tower wall, flowers blossom now. An American Girl Abroad "I would be cut to pieces with the ploughshare for her." A Captive of the Roman Eagles They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition They therefore drew the ploughshare round the field to mark the compass of the city wall. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Figures of men and women followed the furrow paths slowly; here were men and horses bending to the ploughshare, and there women and children sowed with steady hand the rich seed of their crops. Strangers and Wayfarers Do you suppose I can willingly see her bare feet turned towards a path paved with glowing ploughshares? Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The mill is grinding corn for the commissariat stores, the foundry turns out shot instead of ploughshares, the boxes on the mules' backs are packed with ammunition. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Oh! men walked on red-hot ploughshares in the days of the winning of the West. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The ploughshare, heavy and drawn with great force, smooths the earth as it cleaves it, giving it for a time a 'face,' as it were, the moisture on which reflects the light. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Unless she would let him help her, he was only driving the hot ploughshare of her misery through his own heart for nothing. Old Crow The Southern soil was at the moment broken up roughly by the hot ploughshare of civil war. Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 As the long hung-up sword or unused ploughshare, lose their brightness and edge from want of use, perhaps these qualities of mind and body had disappeared for want of a fitter field for their display. The Advocate The ploughshare had not then turned the fertile glebe, nor the cattle browsed upon the tender herbage of that region, now so populous and cultivated. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 It is pagan; but wait till you feel it,— That jar of the earth, that dull shock, When the ploughshare of deeper passion Tears down to our primitive rock. Home Life of Great Authors They rose with clubs and ploughshares, and when the others sent a new army, they attacked it again and again, until there was none left. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 She would have started, had the road been lined with hot ploughshares, so indomitable was her will and so strong her resolution. Two Little Women The shores, as if to escape from this warfare, hurry down, and plunge to quiet depths of ocean, where the surge never heaves, nor frost, even by the deep ploughshare of its icebergs, can reach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Houses were sacked and burnt, and occasionally razed to the ground, for the ploughshare and the salt-sower to go over their site. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion With spears to ploughshares beaten, The furrowed land is won. Famous Firesides of French Canada Idle, comfortless, bare, The broad bleak acres lie: The ploughman guides the sharp ploughshare Steadily nigh. Collected Poems Volume Two Always they quote Micah who tells us the swords will be beaten into ploughshares, the spears into pruning hooks and the nations shall learn war no more. Why I Preach the Second Coming A brightly gleaming, triangular knife, about the size of a ploughshare, worked up and down in the channels. Orphans of the Storm Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Titus, the Roman conqueror, drove a ploughshare over its smoking ruins. Christ, Christianity and the Bible It is my soul lies bare Between the hills and the sea: Come, ploughman Life, with thy sharp ploughshare, And plough the field for me. Collected Poems Volume Two War over forever, swords beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Why I Preach the Second Coming Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date: Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 On land exactly the same kind of chase is carried on by Rooks, Crows, and Magpies, who follow the plough to seize the worms which the ploughshare turns up in the open earth. The Industries of Animals The ploughshare of havoc has been driven through the gardens of luxury. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit My soul, my soul lies bare, Between the hills and the sea; Come, ploughman Death, with thy sharp ploughshare, And plough the field for me. Collected Poems Volume Two He would have preferred dancing on hot ploughshares himself. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 The green turf now being turned over was disturbed by ploughshare for the first time since the creation of the world. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Bobinette was swaying in the doorway, as though the landing were red-hot ploughshares to be walked on! A Nest of Spies At the same time the conclusion of the war came as a relief, and the mass of the soldiery gladly went through the Japanese equivalent of turning their swords into ploughshares. The Empire of the East Ne'er believe that Peel's noble Industria Plann'd Aught design'd of its honours his fame to despoil, Aught but Justice to Industry, Justice to Land, To the loom and the ploughshare, the sea and the soil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 O Jew! unyoke thine ox, and loose thy ploughshare, for the Temple is desolate.’ Hebrew Literature No, my father could have drawn the claymore, but he could also use the ploughshare—and did. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure The fore-part of this nymph is fashioned like a sort of boar's-snout armed with six strong spikes, a multiple ploughshare, eminently adapted for burrowing in the soil. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles It is the words—dragging, with languid neck, the inverted ploughshare, that makes the sentence Poetry, and empowers it to arrest and charm the fancy. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace It is a long step from the spear to the ploughshare, but the moccasined feet of White Horse soon took the step. The Vanishing Race O Jew! yoke thine ox and bind thy ploughshare, for King Messiah is born.’ Hebrew Literature As our ploughshare is the Sabre: Here's the harvest of our labour; For behind those battered breaches Are our foes with all their riches: There is Glory—there is plunder— Then away despite of thunder! The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry With his head, a powerful ploughshare, the Beetle might very easily push the ring off its short support. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Were we design'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughshare through the soil, To sweat in harness through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load? The Children's Garland from the Best Poets It would, as Gow Johnson said, “Let him sit back and view the landscape o’er before he puts his ploughshare in the mud.” Northern Lights Meanwhile, Partenopeus must submit to an ordeal not quite so painful as hot ploughshares. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 For some to ploughshares did the metal twist, And others—dreaming empires—straightway cut Crowns for their aching foreheads. Modern British Poetry Yet, truly, if it might be, I, for one, would fain join in the cadence of hammer-strokes that should beat swords into ploughshares: and that this cannot be, is not the fault of us men. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Nine red hot ploughshares were laid on the ground in a row. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Their weapons included fowling-pieces, old matchlocks, muskets taken from the militia, pistols, sabres, scythes, hatchets, billhooks, and even ploughshares. The Huguenots in France Nowhere did the revolutionary ploughshare cut deeper than among the clergy and the religious orders. The Story of Paris Having effected the great object for which he was placed at the head of our armies, we have seen him convert the sword into the ploughshare, and sink the soldier in the citizen. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. We can find no term in the gradation, from the ploughshare to the cathedral buttress, at which we can set a logical distinction. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Less than these fierce ploughshares would not have stirred the stubborn soil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 But Savonarola had the ploughshares at his feet. The Uncalled A Novel Seven ploughshares below were opening in parallel lines small furrows, in which the grain fell through pipes descending to the ground. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life When a man is about retiring from public life, and sees nothing but a ploughshare between him and the grave, he naturally thinks most upon that. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. I have already again and again pressed on your attention the beginning of the arts of men in the make and use of the ploughshare. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Only by the ploughshare is the earth cut in furrows; but that this may be, other parts of the plough are necessary. A Source Book for Ancient Church History And on the fourth evening he took out a wonderful plough, the ploughshare of gold and the handles of silver and the beam of copper. Finnish Legends for English Children Guiding one morn the plough, his hand Marked out, for rites the sacred land, When, as the ploughshare cleft the earth, Child of the king I leapt to birth. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The inhabitants did their best to defend themselves; but being unprepared and armed for the most part only with clubs and ploughshares, they were quickly overpowered. Stories from English History He was a prisoner at Fort McHenry under me; he and I joked about turning our "arms into ploughshares" many times. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After The opinion appears to be prevalent that it is the snout of a glacier that must act the part of ploughshare; and it is certainly an erroneous opinion. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Let the ploughshare of repentance make the land ready for the seed, and then there will be some hope of lasting success. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet "I find them in the garden, for There's many here about; And often, when I go to plough, The ploughshare turns them out; For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in the great victory." The Book of Humorous Verse Break me, O Lord, even as the ploughshare breaks the reluctant clod. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance I hadn't the faintest notion what sort of thing a ploughshare was, but I'd clever people to help me, and so it was all right. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 After a while the master said that having taken the precaution to rub with oil his ploughshares to keep them from rusting, the mice had eaten off all the points. Italian Popular Tales Please God, my boy, now that the sword is to be beaten into a ploughshare. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story There are still grand expanses of the Texan prairie unfurrowed by the ploughshare of the colonist—almost untrodden by the foot of the explorer. The Death Shot A Story Retold The passion of the heart testified to by some battered trinket, the sweat of the brain by some maggot-eaten manuscript, the agony of death, at best, by some round shot turned up by the ploughshare? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance “What a mixture of terror and beauty these monstrous glaciers are,” said Julian; “crawling down the valleys, and shearing away the solid rocks before them like gigantic ploughshares.” Julian Home Then the friend of the cheese broke forth: "But, master, how can it be that the mice cannot eat my cheese, if they can eat the points of your ploughshares?" Italian Popular Tales He made one ploughshare immediately, and the others afterwards. Old Daniel They could walk over fiery ploughshares and only wanly smile——” Ruth went off into a gale of laughter at this. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point If luck will carry him through the hot ploughshares, we let him escape though we know him to be guilty. Orley Farm He who does not desire this should keep to the ploughshare. Debts of Honor Tliebse had the care of smiths and all the cunning workmanship of forges, and at his fete libations were poured in honor of him upon the hatchet and the ploughshare. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia I have therefore brought them here for you to make ploughshares of them.” Old Daniel Then The lovers came out of the wood again: The horses started and for the last time I watched the clods crumble and topple over After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Poems Why don't his grandson hang up his old broad-ax and ploughshare, and worship them, if he must have idols, instead of that symbol of strife and bloodshed. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) O fearful ploughshare, tearing thy way through so many bleeding hearts! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Of course, there are still isolated ranges where the rangemen still hang on, but they are not many, and most of them must soon fall easy prey to the ploughshare. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Then, in the course of years, some original genius improved upon nature by adding, when needed, a harder substance than wood; and hence the bit of iron now added to form the Indian ploughshare. Old Daniel The locomotive, like a ploughshare turning the sward of the prairies, is cutting up a faith whose roots run down deep into bygone ages.... Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman One explanation of their refusal to till the ground is that they consider it a sin to lacerate the breast of their mother earth with a ploughshare. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II A pioneer from the far West, his left hand on a ploughshare, explains to an Indian chief the benefits of civilization, of which he wishes him to partake. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 This was succeeded by a sensation of having my nose converted into a ploughshare, and that was instantly followed by oblivion! The Big Otter No ploughshare cleaves thee save the passing keel; no prince or monarch owns thy haughty waves. Ungava Oft we stand To view the reeking smith, who pounds his iron With blow on blow, to fit it for the beast That drags your ploughshares through the rooty soil. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians The Agarias think that their caste has existed from the beginning of the world, and that the first Agaria made the ploughshare with which the first bullocks furrowed the primeval soil. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II A pioneer from the far West, his left hand on a ploughshare, explains to an Indian chief the benefits of civilization, of which he wishes him to partake. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 But I am to quit the army, and turn my sword into a ploughshare, and gather oats instead of laurels; and I am not quite certain how I shall take to that sort of life.” Paddy Finn Were we designed for daily toil, To drag the ploughshare through the soil; To sweat in harness through the road; To groan beneath the carrier's load? Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse He has not been to sea for a number of years, and having, as he says, turned his sword into a ploughshare, has devoted his mind to farming and rural sports. The Three Lieutenants On this day all the men in the village go to his shrine taking a measure of rice and a ploughshare. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II A pioneer from the far West, his left hand on a ploughshare, explains to an Indian chief the benefits of civilization, of which he wishes him to partake. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 It is when afflictions rend the heart, as a ploughshare tears up the ground, that the elements of life long offered are at length received. The Parables of Our Lord Because I am a man of the ploughshare and not of the sword. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer With strong ploughshares no man the earth did cleave, The ditcher no marks on the ground did leave. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Here he makes an offering and repeats a charm, and then kneeling down strikes the earth seven times with the ploughshare, and sows five handfuls of rice, sprinkling water over the seed. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Every minute bump goes the ploughshare against a stone or a root, and your clothes carry off charcoal at a railroad pace. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 The stars, the flowers, the sunset, the sound of the wind, the very pebbles turned up by the ploughshare, gave him strange feelings which he did not understand and which he carefully hid. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May The gleam of arms and sabre possesses for them an attraction which the ploughshare or the miner's drill can never impart. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The suffering ploughshare or the flint may wear, But heavenly poesy no death can fear. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) After him the villagers walk seven times round the altar of the god in pairs, one man turning up the earth with the ploughshare and the other sowing and watering the seed. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II The lower slopes of this mountainside are cultivated now, and the ploughshare is gradually forcing one terrace after another to yield sustenance to the farmer. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania They might grow wool, but it must be carried to England to be woven into cloth; they might smelt iron, but it must be carried to England to be made into ploughshares. The War of Independence In the rural area of the Province the Lohār is still a village menial, making and mending the iron implements of agriculture, such as the ploughshare, axe, sickle, goad and other articles. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke, And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) With this they make ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II There the scythe and the ploughshare were being fashioned, and all the implements wherewith the hand of man subdued to his use those rugged hillsides. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania The Lohār or blacksmith makes and mends the iron implements of agriculture, such as the ploughshare, axe, sickle and goad. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) The holy empress, to remove the scandal of such a slander, trusting in God the protector of innocence, in proof of hers, walked over red-hot ploughshares without being hurt. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March When the bride comes to her husband's house, she finds at the door a broom; or, if he takes possession of her's, a ploughshare is placed there: both allegorical of their duties. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Soldiers of the ploughshare as well as of the sword, 15. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) To him the shape of the first English letter was like a ploughshare, and the second was like the form in which certain large birds fly in company over the heights of the hill country. Son of Power Her demand was complied with, and she passed barefooted and blindfolded over nine red-hot ploughshares without touching them. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The guitar of the troubadour is as practical as the ploughshare of the husbandman. George Bernard Shaw But still the ploughshare of justice is ever drawn through and through the field of the world, uprooting the savage plants. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Upon it will depend the fulfillment of the prophecies uttered by the Prophets of old when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and the lion and the lamb lie down together. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh Upon it will depend the fulfilment of the prophecies uttered by the Prophets of old when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and the lion and the lamb lie down together. Compilation on Peace I find then in the garden, For there's many here about; And often when I go to plough The ploughshare turns them out. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Everywhere the Negro dropped the mattock, left the ploughshare, poised himself at erect stature, passionately saluted Old Glory, answered "Here am I!"—counted fours, and away! Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Poverty would not relinquish its gripe upon the race; they struggled up like clods upon the ploughshare, and fell back again into the furrow. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Instead of carrying iron of a given weight a stipulated distance, an accused person might traverse barefoot a certain space in which nine hot ploughshares were laid lengthwise. The Customs of Old England "As long as you do not have it turned into a ploughshare, or a railway share, which would be more modern," laughed Maggie, "I will forgive you." The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow It takes to the ploughshare more kindly than to the sabre, and likes to manage a steam engine better than a six-gun battery. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The daisy by his ploughshare cleft, The lips of women loved and left, The griefs and joys that weave the weft Of human time, With craftsman's cunning, keen and deft, He carved in rhyme. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Hence it enjoyed the privilege of immunity from the ploughshare. Alec Forbes of Howglen He states that the accused person was blindfolded and that the ploughshares were placed at irregular intervals—evidently with the design that the person might escape contact with some of the irons: possibly all. The Customs of Old England Having effected the great object for which he was placed at the head of our armies, we have seen him convert the sword into the ploughshare, and sink the soldier into the citizen. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States There sigh and moan, and the tired peasant Shall hear thee, and, behind his ploughshare resting, Shall wonder at thy grief, and pity Balder! George Borrow The Man and His Books But Chaucer's daisy shines a star Above his ploughshare's reach to mar, And mightier vision gave Dunbar More strenuous wing To hear around all sins that are Hell dance and sing. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI And the red sparks lit the air; "Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made," And he fashioned the first ploughshare. The Ontario Readers Third Book And there is the Indian laborer, near his cabin of thatch and clay, guiding the rude ploughshare through the fertile soil. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, ’Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight, Shall be thy doom! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham So doth the purple floweret, dying, droop, Smit by the ploughshare. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannon-ball, missent, becomes a ploughshare and turns up the level field. Great Sea Stories I find them in the garden, For there's many here about; And often when I go to plough, The ploughshare turns them out! The Ontario Readers Third Book Say, Earth, art thou drawing nearer that age, the promised of yore, When swords shall be beaten to ploughshares, and war be learned no more? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! Robert Burns How To Know Him It has done this: and a rich crop has resulted from his ploughshare. Studies in Early Victorian Literature She knew that he had received a call within the week, and she would have walked unshod over burning ploughshares in order to hear him say that he had declined it. The Miller Of Old Church Our stanch good friend is he; And for the ploughshare and the plough, To him our praise shall be. The Ontario Readers Third Book Alongside of the ploughshare there must always have been the sword or its equivalent, and along with Flora and Ceres there must always have been a god of strife and battle. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Personally, I should detest a world all red and ruled with the ploughshare in spring, all covered with harvest in autumn. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Her yeomen forsook ploughshare and broadaxe, seized sword and musket, and rallied to the standard of Brock. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 Now in Granville she saw another man whom love would hold to the ploughshare. The Portion of Labor Think you my unshod feet would shrink from glowing ploughshares, if crossing them I found the sacred shelter of my husband's name? Infelice These swords must be beaten into ploughshares and pruning hooks; the deserted farms of Italy must be filled again, and the stability of the state must be increased by an enlargement of the agricultural community. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Respectable people swarm in the track of the vagabond as rooks in the track of the ploughshare. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country He drove a stout bay horse, and as he walked along in the furrow he watched the rich black earth turn up before the ploughshare. The Tree of Appomattox “They would sooner have walked on red-hot ploughshares themselves than let her.” The Portion of Labor Soldiers of the ploughshare," he exclaims in one of his works, "as well as soldiers of the sword! A Critical Examination of Socialism Fill up! fill up! with glowing heart, and pledge our fertile land, The ploughshare of old England, and her sturdy peasant band. Successful Recitations Moreover he had a snout like a ploughshare, with which he had frequently driven Mr. Pierce to the wall. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth She led him past piles of old iron, wagon-tires, ploughshares, tubs of black water, anvils, and sledges to the forge and bellows at the back of the shop. Westerfelt Isaiah: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Super Man and the Bug Out I should have to tear up my heart with a burning ploughshare—put it under foot to be spurned and crushed! May Brooke We shall see, if he lives to Sherry's age, how he will pass over the redhot ploughshares of public life. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals The Emperor gallantly set to work with his ploughshare, though, as the wall was ten feet thick, it is hardly surprising that he was not successful. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine "Henceforth it shall be for a ploughshare," he added. Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Later on, in Cusarare, Nararachic and other places, I found ploughshares of stone applied in the same manner as were the wooden ones. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan In every class the ground is being turned by the ploughshare of Discontent; everywhere we can sow the seed broadcast with both hands. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel They passed their ploughshare over the land of the drama, and sowed it with their salt; and the spirit which raged in the governing powers appeared in the deed of one of their followers. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 When they arrived at the castle Elbegast seemed anxious to see the ploughshare at work, for he begged Charlemagne to begin operations. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Where was the quarrel between our respective ploughshares? Miscellanea Only a few parts belonging to heavy farming implements have been unearthed, including a few ploughshares and small metal fragments from wagons, carts, and harrows. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America Everybody knows that the sword in question is a converted ploughshare, and that it rests with the War Office to turn it back again. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 And he shall judge among the nations, and rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old He had now put His foot upon the path, set with knives and hot ploughshares, along which He had to walk to the Cross. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Their father one day left them ploughing in the field while he went to the village; the ground was rough and stoney, and by some accident the ploughshare was broken. Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past Verily, the day will come when these warlike tribes shall beat their spears into pruning-hooks, and their assagais into ploughshares, and shall learn war no more! History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens If he ploughed, either the ploughshare would go to pieces, or the furrows would turn over so often, that he could not stir. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 In many places there are large prairies of unparalleled richness, entirely free from timber, and consequently prepared by the hand of nature for the immediate reception of the ploughshare. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America She has walked on fiery ploughshares since then; she has trodden the furnace, and her beautiful bare feet are seared since they trod the cool vintage with me on the slopes above the Taravo. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 He figuratively converts his ploughshare into a sword, although the uses of that weapon are unknown to him. The Boer in Peace and War But these chiefs are not much disposed to convert their swords into ploughshares; they continue to spend their revenues on useless military establishments for purposes of parade and show. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official In his hands the rapier has become a ploughshare. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 When occasion arose, all the Page 33farmers exchanged their ploughshares for swords and bows and arrows, and went forth to fight. Myths and Legends of China That is why a perambulation of the stalls is as perilous as to pick one's way through hot ploughshares. Prose Fancies An opinion long prevailed that they had penetrated into the interior of Chili, where they settled and became a nation called the Cesares, whose very ploughshares were said to be of gold. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Under these trees there lies, even today, a deep blue-grass turf which never, from the time of Boone till now, has known the touch of ploughshare or the tool of any cultivation. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains But no; she takes up a broken ploughshare and escapes! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 This modesty is to captivate the crowd, who are to call on him to convert the ploughshare into an Imperial sceptre! Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 The cava feast, the yam, the cocoa's root, Which bears at once the cup, and milk, and fruit, The bread-tree which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrowed fields. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months But most of these never reach their full development but are absorbed into the pelvis, or into the "ploughshare" bone supporting the tail feathers. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 So much game was there, too, that the folk could have lived on that alone and never put a ploughshare in the soil. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland The sword is not yet beaten into a ploughshare, nor has universal peace arrived. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The accused communicates before carrying the red-hot iron bar, or walking on the red-hot ploughshare. Modern Mythology But the improving landlords run their ploughshares through the ashes of old animosities, turning up embers which the winds of agitation blow into flames. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Beat your sword into a ploughshare if you like, but beat your enemy into smithereens first.” When William Came To lick a hot ploughshare, to sit on or handle hot iron, and to take a short walk over coals is late Indic. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow The next god in the series is Khem, the Greek Pan,—the principle of generation, sometimes holding the ploughshare. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The friends of International Arbitration met in the Town Hall, May 2, 1878, when 800 delegates were present, but the swords are not yet beaten into ploughshares. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically Then, arbitrarily, as it seems, the rains may be withheld, and the hard-baked, heat-cracked soil never softens to admit the ploughshare, and hundreds of thousands of the cultivators and field hands are overtaken by famine. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments I'm afraid the hero-worship attitude will soon change to impatience when the soldiers beat their swords into ploughshares and then confess that they have never been taught to plough. Carry On Letters in War-Time O ever-youthful king, as if with a ploughshare, rend the sinner; destroy him with thy flame, like a tree! The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Stars rush: and final ruin fiercly drives Her ploughshare o'er creation! English Grammar in Familiar Lectures And then the founder, having fitted a plough with a brazen ploughshare, and yoked to it a bull and a cow, himself ploughs a deep furrow round the boundaries. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Near a ridge of the hill, in one of the shallow valleys that furrowed, like ploughshares, its long slant, there was a dolmen, three huge stones, with a fourth poised on it. Mount Music There sigh and moan and the tired peasant Shall hear thee, and, behind his ploughshare resting, Shall wonder at thy grief, and pity Balder! The Death of Balder But those carried hither by the birds or winds took root and flourished, secure from the rude ploughshare or the sharp scythe. The Amateur Poacher The pilgrims departed, he remained in profound meditation; while, backward and forward, an invisible ploughshare turned up the long furrows on his brow. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Wherever they intend to place a gate they take off the ploughshare, and carry the plough over, leaving a space. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Many a time it has reminded me of the mouse's nest that was turned up by the ploughshare. A Trip to Venus The stubborn roots of the trees break our ploughshares when we would till the earth. Twice Told Tales Behind the Pigs comes Jonathan with his all-conquering ploughshare,—glory to him too! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. On the pole an old ploughshare is fixed, and it is supposed that when the spirit who controls the disease sees the ploughshare he will retire to a distance of three homesteads. Across China on Foot No hirelings they, who fought for mere glory, or lust of gold, but husbands, fathers of families--men who had left the ploughshare and pruning hook to fight for hearth and altar. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune For the earth seems now to remember the drive of the ploughshare and its harrying; the seed, and the full bursting of it, the swelling and the completion of the harvest. Hills and the Sea It is pagan; but wait till you feel it,— That jar of our earth, that dull shock When the ploughshare of deeper passion Tears down to our primitive rock. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The ploughing is done by a gang-plough, as it is called, which has four steel ploughshares that turn up the ground ten inches deep. Stories of California They build houses, they work in carpentry, they forge weapons, gun-barrels and locks, swords, knives, pickaxes, cards for wool, ploughshares, gun-stocks, shovels, wooden shoes, and frames for weaving. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 She visited them often; entering genially into their trials and pleasures, and missing no chance to drop good seed in every furrow upturned by the ploughshare or softened by the rain. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II I walk over the burning ploughshares, and they sear my feet. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I The Hebrew who wished to sharpen his ploughshare or axe was forced to go to a Philistine city. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations He had set his foot upon the ploughshare, and would not shrink from the ordeal which he had challenged. The Dock and the Scaffold But even here swords were beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks to an extent never known before or since in our annals. Early Britain—Roman Britain The companion poem of Marathon, the story of the nameless clown, the mysterious holder of the ploughshare, is not less inspiring. Robert Browning It was a blight, warm day, and the ground, freshly opened by the sharp ploughshares, exhaled a slight vapor. The Devil's Pool That battle was fought which decided the fate of Europe, and turned so many swords into ploughshares; and Mary seemed now touching the pinnacle of happiness when she saw her lover restored to her. Marriage The day was clear and soft, and the earth gave out a light smoke where it had been freshly laid open by the ploughshare. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold The task of hammering spears into ploughshares and swords into pruning-hooks was not altogether to his liking. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 It is quite clear that sok or sock is the ploughshare. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The four horses that he urges forward are thin and gaunt; the ploughshare is buried in rough, unyielding soil. The Devil's Pool How many swords has France beaten into ploughshares? The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe I walk between burning ploughshares; let me be mindful where I place my foot. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The farmers shovel a way to their beasts, bind with chains their large ploughshares to their heaviest wood-sled and take of oxen as many as Allah has given them. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) So when he had finished the morning’s ploughing he pulled the iron point of the ploughshare out of its socket and snapped it in two. Folklore of the Santal Parganas Krishna, it is clear, cannot go himself, but Balarama is less impeded and with Krishna's approval, he takes a ploughshare and pestle, mounts a chariot and speeds on his way. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry Nations were to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, and men were not to learn war any more. Collections and Recollections Protected from hostile violence and invasion by a moral defence, more powerful than armies and navies, we might indeed beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks. A Visit to the United States in 1841 "The fire ordeal," in which the accused might clear his innocence by holding red-hot iron in his hands, or by walking blind-fold amidst fiery ploughshares. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 Home, knaves! we’ll seek our wives,And beat our swords to ploughshares—when folks let us. The Saint's Tragedy Moreover, we have already risked the prophecy that this war will not end with such conclusiveness as to justify an immediate beating out of our swords into ploughshares. What is Coming? Nay, once more: what sad errors must have crept into the text of the prophet Isaiah when he is made to desire that our swords shall be converted into ploughshares, and our spears into pruning-hooks! Famous Reviews After the final destruction of the temple by the arms of Titus and Hadrian, a ploughshare was drawn over the consecrated ground, as a sign of perpetual interdiction. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The ploughshare still turned up from time to time some rusty bits of metal, but it was hard to say what use they had ever served, and those who found them wondered and disputed. The Battle of Life As none but the clergy interfered with the arrangement of the ploughshares, they could always calculate beforehand the result of the ordeal. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 It was peace, deep and holy and ancient, peace older than the oldest wars, peace which would endure when all our swords were hammered into ploughshares. Mr. Standfast The shining ploughshare will cut its way through acres of mud.' Greenmantle "It's neither ploughshare, whittle, hook, nor crook, nor aught I've yet seen men handle." Rewards and Fairies The stubborn roots of the trees break our ploughshares, when we would till the earth. From Twice Told Tales One mode of ordeal was to place red-hot ploughshares on the ground at certain distances, and then, blindfolding the accused person, make him walk barefooted over them. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 The ploughshare that had been shaped by the furnace, the bellows, the hammer and the anvil, cried: "It is not each of you alone, that keeps up the smithy, but ALL TOGETHER." Good Stories for Holidays Earth of herself, with hooked fang laid bare, Yields moisture for the plants, and heavy fruit, The ploughshare aiding; therewithal thou'lt rear The olive's fatness well-beloved of Peace. The Georgics Both capital fellows 50 They are, kind and simple, They work with the ploughshare, The scythe, and the sickle, Drink vodka on feast-days, And mix with the peasants Entirely as equals…. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? Having selected the seed, and looked after the implements, So that all preparations have been made for our labour, We take our sharp ploughshares, And commence on the south-lying acres. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 The reputation, not only of their order, but of a queen, being at stake, a verdict of guilty was not to be apprehended from any ploughshares which priests had the heating of. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 The new president, on dit, is turning his sword into a ploughshare. Life in Mexico The husbandman With hooked ploughshare turns the soil; from hence Springs his year's labour; hence, too, he sustains Country and cottage homestead, and from hence His herds of cattle and deserving steers. The Georgics The streams that had been pent in narrow channels, like wild steeds bound to the ploughshare, broke away with exultation; the springs poured down from the mountains, and the air was blind with rain. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Indeed it is a common superstition that good fairies lived in these old mounds, and a story is told of a ploughman who unfortunately broke his ploughshare. English Villages He is not content that ploughshares be beaten into swords. The Slave of the Lamp I should never get to Garibaldi, and never be rid of this red-hot ploughshare ploughing up my heart. Stephen Archer and Other Tales You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. Villette He wrote in fear, like one walking on the burning ploughshares of the ordeal. Eleanor But no sooner did they convert the sword into a ploughshare, and the spear into a pruning-hook, than they unanimously returned to their more ancient form of society. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Every step of that road sown with ploughshares and live coals He was to tread, with bleeding, blistered, slow, unshrinking feet. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Having effected the great object for which he was placed at the head of our armies, we have seen him convert the sword into the ploughshare and sink the soldier into the citizen. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched This ploughshare turns up the depths of the soil. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark When the ploughshare goes deep into the brown, frosty ground, the work is only begun. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah It must be— And yet it moves me, Romans! it confounds The counsels of my firm philosophy, That Ruin's merciless ploughshare must pass o'er And barren salt be sown on yon proud city. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time There are all the trials and sorrows that necessarily attend upon our daily lives, and which sometimes make us feel as if our path were across heated ploughshares, and every step was a separate agony. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke If iron were at first a "precious" metal, it is odd that Homeric men first used it, as Cauer sees that they did, to make points to ploughshares and "tools of agriculture and handiwork." Homer and His Age The blacker the cloud, the brighter the sun; the thicker the ice, the hotter the flame; the harder the soil, the stronger the ploughshare. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark We have seen at least the beginnings of the harvest which the ploughshare of sorrow and the winter winds were preparing for us, and for the rest we can trust. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It will often be strewn with sharp flints, or may even have red-hot ploughshares laid on it, as in old ordeal trials; but still it will be pleasant to the true self. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes With one sweep of his head a boar could rip open a dog or a wolf, a bull or a bear, or furrow the earth like a ploughshare. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks Men had bronze tips to their ploughshares, bronze knives, bronze axes, bronze arrow-heads before they used iron. Homer and His Age And the splendid ploughshare glides along beneath the stars…. Wanderers Without proof before man; but did he try the ordeals of God?—did his feet pass the ploughshare?—did his hand grasp the seething iron? Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Without proof before man; but did he try the ordeals of God?—did his feet pass the ploughshare?— did his hand grasp the seething iron? Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05 Then the villagers started to take tar and bast shoes to the station; they wanted to sell them, and with the proceeds buy ploughshares, harrows, scythes, sickles, and leather straps. Tales of the Wilderness Shelves all round the walls shone with pewter and copper dishes, cups, kettles, and vessels and implements of all household varieties, and ranged round the floor lay ploughshares, axes, and mattocks, all polished up. Grisly Grisell What call had sounded in their ears that they should leave their ploughshares in the furrows, their tills, their anvils, and their benches? Life at High Tide The bricklayer's mortar of his father's calling stuck to his fingers through life, but only as the soil he turned with his ploughshare clung to the fingers of Burns. Our Hundred Days in Europe He cleared a patch in the course of time and for several seasons he broke more ploughshares than he could pay for. While the Billy Boils At first it has a repellent sound, but we quickly learn how clumsy and prejudiced have been our views of the despised worm thrown up by every ploughshare. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies His principal work is making and sharpening the uncouth-looking ploughshares, which look more like flat blunt chisels than anything else. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter And for a while it was like all the ploughshares in a county working together in one field behind tired and struggling horses; then the quivering ceased, and Wong Bongerok lay still to rust. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories And I will dwell in the farmyard beside the ploughshare and the hoe! Chantecler Play in Four Acts These are not and never will be extinguished until Christian civilization shall beat swords into ploughshares. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders Nations reflected on their follies, and resolved to beat their swords into ploughshares. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen In the barren soil may the ploughshare rust, While the sword grows bright with its fatal labor, And blackens between each man and neighbor— The perilous cloud of a vague distrust! Poems Every smith's forge where a sword or a spear-head could be rudely made was shut up, and the people were forced to go to the forges of their oppressors to get even their ploughshares sharpened. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets It is so named from its resemblance to a ploughshare. A Practical Physiology Then shall indeed Messiah's reign Through all the world extend; Then swords to ploughshares shall be turned, And Heaven with earth shall blend. The Anti-Slavery Harp No, Eubulides," returned Phoebus, with a smile; "silver is good, but not for ploughshares. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales How the dark rafters and nail-pierced roof grew ruddy as the white-hot ploughshare or iron bar was drawn from the fire!—what alternations of light and shadow! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 Robert Burns could sing as he drove his ploughshare through the fields of Ayr. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution If we ever come out of this war it will take an army with ploughshares to bring the soil up again. The Battle Ground Year after year the trees bowed themselves before the axe, and the soil surrendered its reluctant treasures in the furrow of the ploughshare. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The ordeal by fire consisted in taking in the hand a red-hot iron, or in walking blindfolded with bare feet over a row of hot ploughshares laid lengthwise at irregular distances. General History for Colleges and High Schools Does the process hasten on the time of beating swords into ploughshares? A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household Boundless is the field and fertile, Let the ploughshare deep be driven; So, at length, the plenteous harvest Shall look smiling up to heaven! Poems of the Heart and Home He strikes, arms himself with clubs, knives, ploughshares, rude pikes, breaks out into a Jacquerie, storms the castles of the oppressor, sacks, burns, slays with the fury of a wild beast unchained. Lectures and Essays These are the devil's tools in monarchies; the Republic's weapons are the ploughshare and the pruning hook. Round the World The sides of the clods which are smoothed by the ploughshare shine like silver even in this dull light. More Pages from a Journal We have delved in the fields of science, but as yet our ploughshares have merely scratched the tiniest portion of the surface,—the furrow that lies in the distance is unending. Marvels of Modern Science But breeding has carried many a woman over the ploughshares of life, and her mind was probably strong enough to go on to the inevitable without theatric climax. Senator North In the barren soil may the ploughshare rust, While the sword grows bright with its fatal labour, And blackens between each man and neighbourThe perilous cloud of a vague distrust! Pike County Ballads and Other Poems Strips of bright green meadow- land, where the Areuse flows calmly, alternate with places where the ravine plunges into bottomless depths that have been chiselled out as by a giant ploughshare. A Prisoner in Fairyland A sacrificed generation, ruined homes, and the grim ploughshare of war rives the fairest fields of the Land of the Cypress. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The servants had looked cold upon him, and he had felt as though there might be hot ploughshares under his feet at any step which he took. Castle Richmond Truly had the sword been beaten into the ploughshare, and the spear into a pruning-hook, for above me frowned down Fort Pillow, the scene of the terrible negro massacre in our late war. Four Months in a Sneak-Box And when he emerged he was a very penitent war lord, and like the Mikado of Japan he was set to work beating his sword-blades into ploughshares and pruning-hooks. Revolution, and Other Essays The task of beating swords into ploughshares was not altogether to their tastes. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism Can it be imagined that the mere passing of the ploughshare or the harrow through the soil—the mere contact of the iron—can impart fertility miraculously? Familiar Letters on Chemistry Daily I have to pass through, well, something like the ordeal of the red-hot ploughshares—and without the innocence, dear friend! One of Our Conquerors — Complete Daily I have to pass through, well, something like the ordeal of the red-hot ploughshares— and without the innocence, dear friend! One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4 So my neighbor, wanting a ploughshare, agreed that he would go over the next day and strike till that was done. David Crockett His Life and Adventures Odo advanced, picking his way among broken ploughshares and stacks of maize, till he stood near the old marble altar, with its sea-gods and acanthus volutes. The Valley of Decision Has he not nearer home a seedfield that lies fallow for the want of the ploughshare? Ulysses Over burning ploughshares she had walked to meet one destined to stir to its depths the slumbering sea of her tenderest love; and to forego the pain, would she relinquish the recompense? At the Mercy of Tiberius One might fancy, at first, that Triptolemus was a quite Boeotian divinity, of the ploughshare. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays When he came to live in Culloch the landlord had said to him that what he would like to do would be to run the ploughshare through the town, and to turn "Culloch" into Bullock. The Untilled Field These poor wretches had done more to better their crops by spending their savings in good ploughshares and harrows than by hanging gew-gaws on a wooden idol. The Valley of Decision The millionaire himself, though old, maintained a fairly middle-aged appearance—he was a thin, wiry, well-preserved man, his wizened and furrowed countenance chiefly showing the marks of Time's ploughshare. The Secret Power You know that I would sooner handle red-hot ploughshares, than touch a dollar, a cent, of that fortune. At the Mercy of Tiberius Have I not crossed your path with the burning ploughshares of my hatred? Joseph II. and His Court The land around was treeless and desolate, and the ground so hard that when they tried to plough it the ploughshare broke. This Country of Ours With his head, a robust ploughshare, the Beetle might very easily push the ring off its short support. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Thus guiding the ploughshare and scattering the seed as he went, Dionysus is said to have eased the labour of the husbandman. The Golden Bough The peasant sets off to his house for eatables and meanwhile Mar·f begins to plough a furrow, when presently the ploughshare strikes against something hard, which he finds to be an iron ring. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 In their rear were the serfs and artisans, some with axes, scythes, or ploughshares, a few with cross-bows, and Jobst and his sons with the long blackened poles used for stirring their charcoal fires. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest One frail, who, bravely tilling Long hours in gripping gusts, Was mastered by their chilling, And now his ploughshare rusts. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses Mine shares seems to fit the case better than ploughshares. Reginald "I did," said Clancy; "and they turned it into a ploughshare." Cabbages and Kings He was for beating his swords into ploughshares, with a vengeance. Long Live the King! Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Tongs, pincers, large ploughshares, filled the interior of the furnace, and glowed in a confused heap on the coals. Notre-Dame De Paris He wants to plough deep, and his devices for burying the ploughshare are such that Siey�s, a radical, if there ever was one, dubbed it a "cavernous policy." The French Revolution - Volume 2 Like the woman of old, her feet were on the ploughshares and she would not hesitate. The Man I have set My foot upon the ploughshare—I will pass The fiery ordeal. The Lady of Lyons Hasn't some old Johnny somewhere described it as the poetry of the ploughshare? They and I "Do you think so?" he asked, and glanced down the hill to his ploughshare lying in the ripped-up field. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Surely there is no sword like that which is beaten out of a ploughshare. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 If he could twist iron, and hammer a ploughshare into a sword, or reverse the form, why should he be unable to effect a change in their opinions? The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs But like the snout of the boar shall my word grub up the basis of your souls; a ploughshare will I be called by you. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Then the prince Palamedes took the baby Telemachus from the arms of his nurse, Eurycleia, and laid him in the line of the furrow, where the ploughshare would strike him and kill him. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities Without daily food, the husbandman's ploughshare stands still in the furrow; without daily food, the sword of the warrior is too heavy for his hand. Chronicles of the Canongate Sometimes the ploughshare had struck against an obstacle underground . . . an unknown, unburied man; but the cultivator had continued on its way without pity. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The warlike tribes of this country, from disposition and habit, prefer plunder to peace, and court the exchange of the ploughshare for the sword. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan If I be not yet proved in the fire, make me some nurturing ploughshare, or the Sword of victory! Seraphita And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland "Oh, father, the ploughshares I ordered, has he brought them along?" asked the big, healthy-looking fellow, obviously the old man's son. Anna Karenina Smoothly the ploughshare runs through the soil, as a keel through the water. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow But they had neither the iron ploughshare of the Old World, nor had they animals for draught, which, indeed, were nowhere found in the New. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas Men beat, the wrong way, their ploughshares into swords. The French Revolution Others could once more see country districts at sunset, when the yellow corn waves, and the great oxen ascend the hills again with the ploughshares on their necks. Salammbo But they had neither the iron ploughshare of the Old World, nor had they animals for .draught, which, indeed, were nowhere found in the New. History of the Conquest of Peru Even when there is peace, the fear of war is impending; None, with the ploughshare pressed, furrows the soil any more. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Moreover, a man told Absalon that he had seen a beam found in the spot, which a countryman struck with his ploughshare as he burrowed into the clods. The Danish History, Books I-IX Old Corny looked pretty grumpy on it—he'd broken all his ploughshares but one, in the roots; and James didn't look much brighter. Joe Wilson and His Mates Ah! if you knew how full the cellars were, and how the ploughshares shone! Salammbo Innocent men have walked unshod O'er burning ploughshares, and have trod Unharmed on serpents in their path, And laughed to scorn the Devil's wrath! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The jackal will crouch in your palaces, and the ploughshare will upturn your tombs. Salammbo |
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