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The cow that lowed, the man who milked, the chickens that came running and the woman who called them, the fragrance streaming from the plowed land and the plowman. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
He girded himself and knew this would be a conflict that would extend the thresholds of his fear of his father and his cowardice before the plowman who had granted him life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z
Nick Belles, 26, a plowman clearing commercial lots in Buffalo’s south towns, said he got a total of three hours of sleep during a three-day stretch. How Buffalo is clearing 80 inches of snow almost as fast as it fell 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z
Real plowmen and artisans won public office only rarely, but middling farmers, petty traders, successful mechanics, and ambitious country lawyers won elections in all the states. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
Those up for auction were the field hands, carpenters, wheelwrights, plowmen, rice and cotton pickers, cooks, women, children, infants, lame, blind, aged, unsound, parents, lovers, and siblings. It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’ 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z
From the 1880s to the late 1920s, Presque Isle Bay in winter was inhabited by a different lot of outdoorsmen - scores of polers, plowmen, feeders, packers and foremen. Erie bay ice harvest was annual ritual in early 1900s 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z
Like the Ayrshire plowman, he sprung from the working class. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z
Brebiette, in a small etching on copper, has copied the Lyons plowman. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z
But a plowman there accomplished as much in 5 days as another in 8. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z
There is a similarity between the very old and the very new, and ancient poets perhaps best portray the primitive, sometimes heroic, life of effort the modern stockrider and plowman lead on the prairie. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z
THE sun sank; then that star came that bids the shepherd bring his flock to the fold, that brings the wearied plowman to his rest. The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 2011-10-31T02:00:27.780Z
He discussed a financial scheme in Parliament to raise twenty millions sterling to carry on the war, just as he argued the consideration of a twenty-pound note before a jury of Yorkshire plowmen. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z
What is familiarly called "back-furrowing" enables the plowman to raise a ridge upon which to plant his trees, and at the same time he opens a furrow for the escape of surface water. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z
Then thou may’st take service under some true lord as a plowman or a soldier as thou wilt. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z
But then he was only a poor plowman, and not an Hed Waiter. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z
The same landscape is not the same as seen by poet and plowman. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z
And I am your plowman, and will hereafter do your plowing only for a thaler a day wages. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z
It looked as if the poor plowman would have a hard job to get any work out of the pair. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z
I have the more that ever they remain quiet like oxen in a paddock awaiting the plowman’s yoke.” Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z
I could leave the Hazeldean lands to my plowman, if I chose it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z
The picture gallery, replete with the finest works of our greatest masters, is forbidden ground to the pitman, the plowman, the poor pariahs to whom the conceptions of the highest art-treasures are impossible. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
These pleasing changes on a farm Doth give to rural life a charm, Let occupation none upbraid, But honor plowman and milkmaid. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z
The first plowman to bring up his plow was a brawny young fellow with a tanned face. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z
Dodging and skulking from rock to rock is hard upon team, plow, and plowman; and it can rarely pay. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z
She served the table for the plowmen and took her own meal in the pantry while she tidied up after they had gone to the fields. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z
The plowmen and maids ventured farther into the room. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z
Yes, I see: white butterflies, morning red, disguised counts, philosophic plowmen, and all the rest of the romantic rubbish. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z
All eyes were on the bent back of the plowman plodding on in the mist. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z
Virgil, in his Georgics, invokes her as "Inventor, Pallas, of the fatt'ning oil, Thou founder of the plow and the plowman's toil." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z
Their plowmen and their clerks, their great lords and their scullions, all came to France to fight with us for la patrie. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors
It boasts a porch, over which a Virginia creeper spreads its amorous leaves; rose-bushes waft a welcome and the sure hope of peace to plowman or golfer after the day's striving. The Gay Adventure A Romance
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16
Five plowmen came in succession, but all were behind the first in time and cut a less regular furrow. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z
There is every indication that the practical, unimaginative Latin plowmen and spearsmen received the very alphabet of every art from vanquished Hellas. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII
The plowman drops the traces on the shambling oxen's backs turns his head and stares wistfully after the train. A Pushcart at the Curb
Anemones and primroses, And the blue violets of spring, We found, while listening by a hedge To hear a merry plowman sing. Graded Poetry: Third Year
The field was overgrown with those pests of the Southern plowman, called locally "devil's shoe strings," which stretch from furrow-ridge to furrow-ridge, and are snares to any careless walker. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro
The prize was to the plowman who would make the stretch up and down the meadow in the shortest time, cutting the furrows straightest, cleanest, and of the most regular depth. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z
That night she says t' me, 'Jamie,' says she, 'I don't care s' much fur fishers ov men as I do for th' plowman.' My Lady of the Chimney Corner
While they were better dressed than the daughters of the first gentry, they were worse taught as to real knowledge, than the daughters of your plowmen. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales
I do labor incessantly; more indefatigably than any plowman, or mason, or carpenter. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part
Each cultivated acre had its dark-hued laborers with hoes, or bare-legged toilers drawing water from the ditches for irrigating the thirsty land, or plowmen guiding teams of ungainly, striding camels or dark gray, crooked-horned oxen. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise
It's all a matter of getting into a rut and plugging along there, like a plowman. A Canadian Bankclerk
I gave God a plowman, but your father says I must chalk half of that to his account. My Lady of the Chimney Corner
The plowmen in the fields, the men cutting the timber, and those who separated from their fellows while hunting game were continually in danger. Scouting with Daniel Boone
Yet he did not spare rich nor poor: he preached at the Squire, and that great fat farmer, Mr. Bullock the churchwarden, as boldly as at Hodge the plowman, and Scrub the hedger. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851
One of these, a plowman, saw a huge stone falling toward the earth, eight or nine yards from the place where he stood. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850
The population, he said, comprised no class that in England would be called rich, and very few of the peasants, though mostly their own landlords, lived a life which an English plowman would tolerate. Memoirs of Life and Literature
He must plow with the plowman, and hunt with the hunter, and converse with the seamstress, be glad with the wedding company and bear the burden of sorrow in the day of death. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology
The man who sped the woodman's team, And deepest sunk the plowman's share, And pushed the laden raft astream, Of fate before him unaware. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President
Ambitious parents sometimes try to make lawyers, doctors, preachers and statesmen out of boys nature meant for plowmen. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order
Riflemen, axmen, fighting men, riding men, boatmen, plowmen—they made ever out and on, laughing the Cossack laugh at the mere thought of any man or thing withstanding them. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman
The meanest English plowman studies law, And keeps thereby the magistrates in awe, Will boldly tell them what they ought to do, And sometimes punish their omissions too. The True-Born Englishman A Satire
The wood-cutter leaned on his ax to listen; the plowman waved his coonskin cap, his wife, a red handkerchief from the doorway of their log cabin. The Strollers
What need hath he now of a tardy crown, His name from mocking jest and sneer to save When every plowman turns his furrow down As soft as though it fell upon his grave? The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President
Instead of the three and four horse plows I found in North China, the plowmen about Hankow seem to rely chiefly on a single ox. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions
Above the team it whirls the thong, With bone for goad to hurry it, Follows the plowman's way along, And guides the furrows to a pit. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems
The messengers, bowing before the plowman, informed him that he had been selected as King of Spain. A Short History of Spain
Instructed by my new philosophy I now perceived that these plowmen, these wives and daughters had been pushed out into these lonely ugly shacks by the force of landlordism behind. A Son of the Middle Border
Handles are fixed to the implement to enable the plowman to keep it in proper place, and for convenience in turning. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses
Was it possible, I asked God, that my wee bit, wonderful lassie, my Little Flower, had bloomed to be trodden under foot by a plowman of Ayr? Nancy Stair A Novel
And the forgotten seal Turned by the plowman's steel An emperor may reveal. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems
If a good plowman can be secured, very satisfactory work can be done with the plow. The Pecan and its Culture
My plowman was a young man—a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
It was drawn by two oxen, and the plowman guided and drove them with a long goad, without the assistance of reins, which are used by modern Egyptians. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
He's a plowman in Ayr, somewhere, and I have it that his verses are something fine. Nancy Stair A Novel
Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground? Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
Whereat, snapping short his melody in its loudest swell, the plowman, in an altogether different key and tone, and at the top of his tremendous voice, sent forward his favorite greeting: "I yi, you dogs!" Burl
Every other rod the plow brought up with a jerk that nearly flung the plowman over the top of it. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
The one I have first shown you is of a plowman plowing at evening. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
An estate of one hundred jugera, with vine plantations, required one plowman, eleven slaves, and two herdsmen. Ancient States and Empires
Because of the ground which is chapt, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
The plowman is no longer content to keep his eye forever on the furrow. Chapters in Rural Progress
He seized Carl's hand with his plowman's paw, and, "Good-by, boy," he growled. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
If you are a dextrous plowman, you can drive your plow any number of times along the simple curve. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
Sometimes, however, the plowman binds the robber, and then having fastened him to his oxen, drives him off with his hands tied behind him. The Two Great Retreats of History
The russet-faced plowman thrust his hand where directed and instantly a comical smile of mingled joy and shame overspread his countenance. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
Poor old Whinnie, I’m afraid, is more a putterer than a plowman. The Prairie Mother
The former’s share is obvious, but nowadays plowman and forester want more than their fathers seem to have been satisfied with. The Long Portage
Think of being obliged to ask permission from some low plowman to go in or out of our own house! A Confederate Girl's Diary
Then came a plowman with his plow; From early until late, Across the field and back again, He plowed the furrows straight. Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten
In a ring that was cleared by an athletic plowman the fiddler-postman of Newlands, Tom o' Dint, was seated on a tub turned bottom up. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
Every few minutes the plowman had to scrape off the soil from the moldboard with his boot-heel or stick or paddle. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
When arrived at the end of the piece, a back furrow is turned up to the potatoes, and a good plowman will cover nearly all without difficulty. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
It was to this place that the plowman was bending his homeward way. The Wrong Woman
I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. The Devil's Pool
They dressed themselves like plowmen and started towards Camelot. King Arthur and His Knights
A plowman is by no means awkward in the exercise of his trade, but would be exceedingly ridiculous if he attempted the airs and grace of a man of fashion. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
Contrary to my plowman's doubts and predictions, Jack Frost did a grand milling business that winter! Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Alliteration is appropriately inconspicuous; it is limited to plowman ... plods and the conventional weary way. The Principles of English Versification
Whose hand smote the lyre of the Scottish plowman? and stayed the life of the German priest? Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
He cowered in his seat like a dust-covered plowman in a parlor, and when Mary looked in his direction his breath quickened and he shrank. The Eagle's Heart
"Friend and foe are of one stuff; the plowman, the plow and the furrow are of one stuff." Brief History of English and American Literature
Suddenly he began to sing, a rude plowman's song. The Promised Land
Instead of the plowman's wearily making one furrow at a time, the gang-plows of the plains cut many furrows at one time, and instead of walking the plowman rides. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
The Continental Army was an army of plowmen and artisans, poorly armed and poorly clothed. 'America for Americans!' The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon
General Harrison was eulogized as a second Cincinnatus —plowman, citizen, and general—and the sneering remark that he resided in a log-cabin was adopted as a partisan watch-word. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
"Yes, for the present; I am the plowman," he said, in the wish to let her know he was not a common hand. Wayside Courtships
The contented plowman who whistles as he rides to the field and sings as he plows, and builds his little paradise on the farm, gets more out of life than the richest Shylock on earth. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
"Go on and redden the ground now, you knave, as other plowmen do." Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
It was still on the plowman's finger as he had worn it for forty years. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
The plowman lifted his old felt hat courteously. North of Fifty-Three
He looked with disgust at the plowmen in the fields busily engaged in preparing the soil for next year's grain. Captain Jinks, Hero
These introductions are probably less imitations of the traditional opening landscape which had been a convention since the early Middle Ages, than the natural result of a plowman's daily consciousness of the weather. Robert Burns How To Know Him
And slowly buzzing o'er my head A swallow wings her flight; I hear the weary plowman sing As falls the restful night. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Next morning the plowman set out with the false ring. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
In the night the dairy woman and the plowmen at Ormgard farm had run away. Days of the Discoverers
No mere plowman would dare to aspire to the hand of a landlord's only daughter, and no marriageable farmer to whom Penny might aspire was to be found in the neighborhood. Up in Ardmuirland
In both cases he was capable of vigorous, common-sense expression; in neither was he likely to exhibit the imagination, the tenderness, or the humor which characterized the plowman clad in home-spun. Robert Burns How To Know Him
Thus the smooth-spoken young locating engineer in brown duck, serving as plowman for his company. The Quickening
The plowman reached home and told his wife about the ring. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
How long those acres, sown by the winds of heaven, had waited for the plowman now arrived! A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy
Even the cattle ranges and hundreds of farms were conducted like factories in that they were managed through overseers who hired plowmen, harvesters, and cattlemen at regular wages. History of the United States
Leaving the plowman, I walked on, following a pretty little road, until I came to a large flock of sheep in the care of a shepherd-boy and a dog. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business
Handles by which the plowman guides and steadies the plow and also turns it at the corners of the plowed ground in going about the field. The First Book of Farming
Sometimes, as they sat alone of an evening, the plowman's wife would remind him of the unused ring and would talk of things she would like to have for the house. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
There is a bell by which the engineer of the first engine can signal the plowman, and a cord whereby the plowman can talk back. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
"Friend and foe are of one stuff; the plowman, the plow, and the furrow are of one stuff." Initial Studies in American Letters
The plowman suddenly stopped in the middle of a furrow and glanced up, laughing. Jerusalem
The call of the plowman far afield, urging the horses ahead in the great work of bringing forth the corn! Children of the Market Place
So the old plowman was buried with the ring which he had supposed to be a wishing ring. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
So doth the plowman gaze the wand'ring star, And only rest contented with the light, That never learned what constellations are, Beyond the bent of his unknowing sight. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris
There were two families besides our own, and outside of them were a number of young men, plowmen and shepherds, intent on getting land and sending for their people to join them the next spring. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
The plowman walked along, his lips moving all the while. Jerusalem
No genuine boy is ever without that fundamental necessity of childhood, a pin, and finding one somewhere about his clothing, he thrust it into the leg of the plowman. The Redemption of David Corson
With these words the old woman hobbled down the road, leaving the plowman wondering. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
The plowman has overtaken the reaper, Mr. President. The Light in the Clearing
No more in stall or fire the herd or plowman finds delight; No longer with the biting frosts the open fields are white. Echoes from the Sabine Farm
"Ah! very well; but why this exception in favor of plowmen?" The Forty-Five Guardsmen
The plowman fed his horses, and stopped to listen for a moment to their deep-drawn sighs of contentment, and to the musical grinding of the oats in their teeth. The Redemption of David Corson
The plowman put the ring on his finger and started home. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
The shepherd again left his flock, the workman closed his shop, the plowman released his team, and the minister took leave of his people to follow the fiery war-cloud. Sketches of the Covenanters
I presume," he exclaimed, "that good workers are owners of this place, honest plowmen and diligent sowers. Folk Tales from the Russian
We sallied out and he strode the pavement with long strides like a plowman. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography
If a bright emotion, passing, Casts a sun-ray o’er our faces, Plodding Time—the envious plowman— Soon a shadowy furrow traces! The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland
For a year the plowman worked hard and his wife saved. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
The plowman walked behind it in a clean new path, sheared as smooth as a concrete pavement, with not a lump of crumbled earth under his feet--a cool, moist, black path of richness. Vandemark's Folly
I like to hear servants sometimes humming a tune at their work; I love to hear a plowman in the country singing as he goes along with his horses. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little
It may be the servants of some men, as the housekeeper, plowman, scullion, etc., are more looking after heaven than their masters. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
In addition there were an overseer at £200, later £300, a year, four bookkeepers at £50 to £60, a white carpenter at £120, and a white plowman at £56. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
A plowman paused in his work one day to rest. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
Who can see Without esteem for virtuous poverty, Severe Fabricius, or can cease t' admire The plowman consul in his coarse attire? The Aeneid English
Indeed, a plow is made up from the thoughts and toils of generations of plowmen. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
Just then came the cry of the cattle, and I knew why Gray wrote: "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," nor did I fail to encounter a plowman homeward plodding his weary way. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
Hammond's own plowmen were now nearly as numerous as his full hoe hands, and his crops were on a scale of twenty acres of cotton, ten of corn and two of oats to the plow. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
So the plowman went up to him and asked him what the ring was worth. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs
You are pale, my Dora! but the ruddiest cheek That ever charm'd the plowman of your wolds Might wish its rose a lily, could it look But half as lovely. Becket and other plays
And the plowmen, the servant-girls, and even every passing vagabond were every moment giving him cuffs, which caused his eyelashes to twitch spasmodically. Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
Displayed against the surrounding wall is a marble statue of Burns at the plow, with the Genius of Caledonia summoning the plowman to turn poet. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
The increase of the laborers and the spread of the fields, he said, often required the working of three squads, the plowmen, the grown hoe hands, and the younger hoe hands. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
"Bless thee for that," the plowman cried,   At once both starting from the seat, He stood a guardian by her side,   But talk'd of home,—'twas growing late. Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry
The plowman is an aristocrat, if he excels in his vocation: he is an aristocrat, if he turns a better or a straighter furrow than his neighbor. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Morrison and Carey were shoemakers, Franklin was a printer's apprentice, Burns a country plowman, Stephenson a collier, Faraday a bookbinder, Arkwright a barber, and Sir Humphrey Davy a drug clerk. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece
Why, there is the variety of company! for high and low and even the genteel are pressed sometimes for money: then the plowman slouches into my shop, and the duke sends for me privately. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Then at the summons of the plow driver, at first break of day, the plowmen went to the stables whose doors the overseer opened. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
And gently twitching Mary's hand,   The bench had ample room for two, His first word made her understand   The plowman's errand was to woo. Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry
Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. The World English Bible (WEB): Amos
He was himself fond of out-door employments, and liked to be in the fields, helping the plowmen or harvesters. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground! Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
The plowmen led the way home by a quarter of an hour in the evening, and the hoe hands followed at sunset. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
I see them scouring the fields and hopping after the plowman like upland crows. Lying Prophets
The plowman leaves his plow, and in long strides approaches the life- renewing spot, while his team, that cannot follow, look wistfully after him. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
All this seemed very wonderful to me, giving the impression that I had been a skillful plowman all my life without knowing it. A Crystal Age
With such an object in view, he did not disdain to use in his best productions much of the Scottish dialect, the vernacular of the plowman and the shepherd. Halleck's New English Literature
The plowman, in times past content in russet, must now-a-daies have his doublett of the fashion with wide cuts; his fine garters of Granada, to meet his Sis on Sunday. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
Songs were heard once more as the plowmen resumed their labors in the fields. The Law of the Land
The boy was entranced, and, learning that Burns had been merely a plowman, felt that there was hope for himself. History of American Literature
That which he called home was a peasant's house in the Bosk hills—the house of the plowman of Liaoyang, whose children he fathered. Red Fleece
Piers is at first a simple plowman, who offers to guide men to truth. Halleck's New English Literature
The woodman sang of the wild forest; the plowman sang of the fields; the shepherd sang of his sheep; and those who listened forgot about the storm and the cold weather. Fifty Famous People
She was half beside herself with vexation, which was increased by Zell's convulsed laughter on the porch, but she stormed at the old plowman as vainly as a robin might remonstrate with a windmill. What Can She Do?
One other reason served to make it difficult for a poet of the plowman type, like Robert Burns, or for an author from the general working class, like Benjamin Franklin, to arise in the South. History of American Literature
All the fine ladies and gentlemen were eager to see the plowman poet. English Literature for Boys and Girls
The cow and donkey are the work team, such as was being used by the plowman referred to in Fig. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
Yes, he had seized her, had crushed her madly in the embrace of his plowman arms. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
The rude chant of the boatman floats upon the water, the shepherd sings upon the hill, the milkmaid in the dairy, the plowman in the field. Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life
The boy took to his heels and the snake gave chase, pressing him close till a plowman near by came to the rescue with his ox-whip. Wake-Robin
He was a very good plowman, and no one in all the countryside could wield the scythe or the threshing-flail with so much skill and vigor. English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Well," sighed the Shepherd, "the toad under the harrow cannot be expected to praise the plowman, and we're just like the toad." The Scotch Twins
At this last proposal, Squire Vizard—the truth must be told—delivered a long, plowman's whistle at the head of his own table. A Woman-Hater
A change was coming with the railroad; in a few years, the wilderness would be covered with wheat; and noisy gasoline tractors would displace the plowman's teams. The Girl from Keller's
Bill White, Squire Pinner's plowman, called in here and told us the news. East Lynne
Chaucer gives this good man a brother who is a plowman. English Literature for Boys and Girls
The hours slipped by all too quickly, and if the lad's presence did not contribute to good plowing, it at least made a cheerful plowman. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day
On all sides now the wagons of the plowmen or threshers were getting out into the fields, with a pounding, rumbling sound. Main-Travelled Roads
Ye rigid plowmen, bear in mind Your labor is for future hours! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3
"We were talking to him about you a few days ago," Kochubey continued, "and about your freed plowmen." War and Peace
A father worth 60,000 francs a year might say to his son, 'You are stout and fat; go and turn plowman.' The Modern Regime, Volume 1
"The plowman is an estimable man," writes a missionary representative, "but he is generally a poor patriot." The French Revolution - Volume 3
They were passing along lanes now, between superb fields of corn, wherein plowmen were at work. Main-Travelled Roads
Peasants in other countries, plowmen, shopkeepers, laborers in England—all these at least they knew of, and counted them in as factors in the lives of the rich and great; but this dear young man—! T. Tembarom
A plowman's daughter who, as the story goes, listened to the voices of saints Michael, Catherine, and Margaret. The Civilization of Illiteracy
"If you please, why did you call him a plowman?" he asked eagerly. The Burgess Animal Book for Children
The sun sank; then that star came that bids the shepherd bring his flock to the fold, that brings the wearied plowman to his rest. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
The plowman clad in a ragged gray coat, with uncouth, muddy boots upon his feet, walked with his head inclined t~ ward the sleet, to shield his face from the cold and sting of it. Main-Travelled Roads
This system is a bit more particular, and hard for the careless plowman; but it overcomes that unsightly "dead-furrow" in the middle of a field and brings the "finishing-furrow" on the edge. Hiram the Young Farmer
At times, they drove across fields from one plot of crosses to another, their pneumatic tires crushing flat from the furrows opened by the plowman. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
That is why I call him my little plowman. The Burgess Animal Book for Children
The plowmen quite simply inserted the pointed end in the ground and pried. The Land of Footprints
Something very important was evidently transpiring—the ill-humored air of those left behind in the castle, and the sudden servility of this plowman in uniform, made it very apparent. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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