| 单词 | plowshare |
| 例句 | “Or instead of beating my sword into a plowshare, I will beat it into your head.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nothing grew; no seed sprang up; in vain the oxen drew the plowshare through the furrows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Peace is sweet, my lady ... but on what terms? It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The savaged population of Europe stood helpless as plowshares and pruning hooks were literally beaten into swords and spears.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The “agricultural engineers” speak blithely of “chemical plowing” in a world that is urged to beat its plowshares into spray guns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They smelted and forged iron ore into weapons, plowshares, flutes, and delicate jewelry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I could be sure I’m doin’ the right thing,” he would say to himself, as he watched the dark earth fall away from his plowshares. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers were desperate for everything—shovels, plowshares, candle molds, churns, and all the rest of it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Made of cast iron, the plowshare was shaped like a V, with the blade carving into the ground and the two arms arcing away like gull wings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Empty food tins would be pounded into palm-oil lamps, toys, plowshares maybe—who could say? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In “Slow and Steady,” William Finnegan chronicles the fight to save the plowshare, one of the rarest tortoises in the world. Sunday Reading: Strange and Extraordinary Creatures 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z All nations will come together in kindness and justice, swords will be beaten into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z Featured prominently in his workshop is a quotation from the Book of Isaiah: “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares”. Israeli artist beats Gaza rockets into Hanukkah lamps 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But like turning swords into plowshares, designers at the summer 2013 men’s wear shows in Paris are finding beauty in the bellicose. Camouflage and Fencing Wear on the Paris Men’s Runways 2012-06-29T18:43:20Z They walk along the edges of battlefields and persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms, turning swords into plowshares. Henry Kissinger and the Puzzle of the Middle East 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning forks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.” How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, on Nov. 4, 1995, a man who was trying to beat swords into plowshares was shot as he left a peace rally. ‘Killing a King’ Examines Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Beat those swords into plowshares, Ms. Scott suggests. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He also really believed the Hebrew prophets who extolled those who would transformed their swords into plowshares. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Simultaneously, iron horseshoes became increasingly common, which dramatically increased the ability of horses to produce usable muscle power, and iron plowshares proved capable of digging through the soil with greater efficiency. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “It sends a message about America. We are willing to turn swords into plowshares,” Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat and a main sponsor, told reporters. Why the debate over repealing Iraq War approval matters 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z At our best, we aspire to beat our swords into plowshares and our spears into pruning hooks. History forecasts an inevitable major war 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z After Thomas Jefferson asked him to open a foundry in Washington to manufacture weapons, you could say that Foxall transitioned from plowshares into swords. Perspective | Exploring Foxhall Village, a bit of Tudor England in Northwest D.C. 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The group took its name from the biblical lines of nations one day beating “swords into plowshares.” Rev. Carl Kabat, nuclear arms opponent with Plowshares Eight, dies at 88 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “To beat the sword into a plowshare, you need a hammer,” he told St. Louis magazine in 2010. Rev. Carl Kabat, Peace Activist and ‘Fool for Christ,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Paraphrasing the biblical peace call to "beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning hooks," Cantalamessa spoke of beating "missiles into factories and homes". Ukraine war overshadows pope's Good Friday services 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But still, it hardly seems like happy news that an experiment in beating swords into plowshares may be coming to an end. Column: Why I won't cheer as Germany ends its antiwar experiment 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z “America’s conquests are made with the plowshare, Russia’s with the sword,” he wrote at the end of the first volume of “Democracy in America.” Opinion | Hostility toward Russians living in the U.S. is a shocking display of misguided prejudice 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z This is the same European Union based on a post-World War II peace project that would only turn swords into plowshares to recreate a welfare continent of unprecedented riches. One Putin move and behold: West’s unity tightens overnight 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 Sister Rice was tantalized by this latest Plowshares action, an intrepid and dangerous form of activism that is designed to symbolically begin the work of transforming “swords into plowshares,” according to the Book of Isaiah. Megan Rice, nun who crusaded against nuclear weapons, dies at 91 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet in her current quest to run the Pentagon, she has received unequivocal support from numerous individuals who are respected in progressive circles, including those with avowed dedication to beating swords into plowshares. Why some liberals and arms-control experts are backing war profiteers for Biden's Cabinet 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Arrogance got Trump to discard three decades of U.S. policy toward Pyongyang in the expectation that it would beat its nuclear arsenal into plowshares because big, bad, but sweet-talking, Donald said so. Opinion | Trump’s principal contribution to combating the coronavirus? Chaos and confusion. 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Their aim was to carry out a biblical prophecy, from Isaiah, and “beat swords into plowshares.” The Pope and Catholic Radicals Come Together Against Nuclear Weapons 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Sadly, too, we are not yet in a world where nations are willing to beat their swords into plowshares, and we likely never will be. We Should All Be Science Critics 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Leaves remembering, sudden as a name Recalled from nowhere, remembering morning, Fresh wind in high grass, cricket on plowshare, Whisper of stream in the green-shadowed place, Thrush and tanager keeping season. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z When Nixon took the oath of office, his left hand rested on a Bible opened to the passage from the Book of Isaiah about beating swords into plowshares. Fifty years ago today, Richard Nixon took office, and for him it was a time of hope, civility and optimism 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Claiborne had ready a hand plow that he made from a melted-down handgun, a literal following of the Bible’s instruction to “beat swords into plowshares.” ‘This Is Not of God’: When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Trade wars, like all wars, empower government as plowshares are beaten into swords. Trump, Tariffs and the Protectionist Temptation 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The angels themselves are made from toy Army men, “suggesting pounding swords into plowshares,” DeSanctis said. Professor builds intricate nativity scenes now on display 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Five minutes later, that preacher is hanging from the rafters; finding him, the Hound pulls an axe from a log, beating plowshares back into swords. The Political Resonance of “Game of Thrones” 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Love thy neighbor, clothe the naked, walk with God, beat swords into plowshares. The Holocaust and the Jewish identity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z So why not, figuratively, convert those who wielded swords into those guiding plowshares? Enlisting Veterans to Remedy the Shortage of Farmers 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z If Isaiah’s prophecy that nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares” is to be fulfilled, then the essential task now is to think through the connection between religion and violence. How to Defeat Religious Violence 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z It required all entries to address texts from Isaiah and Matthew - one calling for a future without war and the other instructing people to lay down their spears for plowshares. Army chaplain wins prize to give 9/11 sermon by ground zero 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z There ahead of me, the maker of the A-10 Thunderbolt “tank buster” dwelled in a booth a few steps from a maker of fasteners for tractor engines: sword and plowshare. Profits, a Prophet and World Peace through Health IT (Maybe) 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Being able to use technology originally designed for the military for other uses is a “beautiful story” that he said reminded him “of the biblical exhortation: Let’s turn our swords into plowshares.” Lockheed opens a new battleground: Environmentally friendly energy 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But he is no longer drawn to the illusion that his adversaries in the other party will beat their swords into plowshares anytime soon. Obama ditches his illusions about Republicans 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Closing the address, he called on Jesus’ strength to turn “arms into plowshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness.” Francis, in Christmas Day Message, Focuses on Children in Peril 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Will it be possible for the battling beardsmen to pound their mustache combs into plowshares at some point in the future? Splitting hair clubs: Schism roils competitive facial hair world 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z A pair of sword and plowshare earrings — a reference, Thum said in a phone interview Wednesday, to the biblical admonition to beat swords into plowshares — goes for $225. Sheriff to have seized guns turned into jewelry 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The call-up was part of a rising, nationwide war effort that also commandeered horses and called up more than three French million peasants to drop plowshares for guns. France hails taxi drivers in WWI commemoration 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “As we get smarter, we try to think up better ways of getting everyone to turn their swords into plowshares at the same time,” Pinker told the Huffington Post. Taking a News-Out 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z But the swords and plowshares we might have used to fight the cultural battles that would make such a reconciliation possible are not what they once were. Culture change and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Case For Reparations’ He made no mention of energy windfalls, geopolitical realignments or the biblical injunction to turn swords into plowshares. Thomas L. Neff’s Idea Turned Russian Warheads Into American Electricity 2014-01-27T22:07:53Z We see glowing nighttime urban skylines as Brand tells us some of those lights are powered by nuclear material taken from decommissioned Russian and American warheads “Poetic” Brand calls it…swords into plowshares. Will "Pandora s Promise" Start a New Environmental Movement for Nuclear Power? 2013-06-10T16:45:04.053Z President Obama will certainly be familiar with Isaiah’s prophetic vision of nation’s beating their swords into plowshares, and may invoke it as he explores new opportunities to pursue peace negotiations. Obama embraces biblical Israel 2013-03-20T13:48:49Z “Swords into plowshares,” read one, quoting the Book of Isaiah. Behind Nuclear Breach, a Nun’s Bold Fervor 2012-08-10T20:21:22Z Then will the sword and the spear be molten into the plowshare and the pruning hook, and the desert shall bud and blossom as the rose. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z I saw these flat stones of which the tower is built turned up by the plowshare in the roads. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Were we designed for daily toil, To drag the plowshare through the soil, To sweat in harness through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load? The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z We've seen nothing to indicate there being any soil up here that one could get a plowshare into. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Here was an ideal pacifist, who could turn his sword into a plowshare at will, and yet keep the former unsheathed for instant use. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The accused was compelled to walk blindfolded over red-hot plowshares. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Since the location of these remains the plowshare has leveled many mounds, but several can yet be traced. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z "I find them in the garden, For there's many here about; And often when I go to plow, The plowshare turns them out; For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in that great victory!" The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z They placed the plowshare and the pruning hook where the rifle and the tomahawk long held sway. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z "The Emperor Hadrian's plowshare levelled the temple area." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I pray what takes place in Nigeria teaches all of Africa and the World at large to beat their swords into plowshares.. State of war 2011-06-06T14:23:16Z This usually included, for a holding of more than 5 acres, a coulter, a plowshare, a yoke, a cart, an axe, a cauldron, a pan, a dish, and a cask. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z The very words of the chant, the smell of the earth as the plowshare turned it, had a sort of magic for him. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong. Studies in Zechariah 2011-05-26T02:00:17.670Z With crushing ruin rage destroyed Thyestes; And as a final cause rage may be known Why mighty cities fell, quite overthrown, And why upon their walls a sneering army Its plowshare drags along. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z Clearly, the What Would Jesus Cut? movement approaches the deficit dilemma by seeking to beat swords into plowshares. The Democrats' secret budget weapon: Jesus 2011-04-24T15:01:00Z “We are literally turning swords into plowshares,” one of the project’s biggest boosters, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week. New Doubts About Turning Plutonium Into a Commercial Fuel 2011-04-10T23:35:46Z If any man in plowing the field ran his furrow beyond the proper limit, his plowshare would be likely to strike one of these posts. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Presently he whistled softly, and ran to Charles just as he was about to strike the red-hot plowshare which he was holding on the anvil. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z That's turning around the Biblical imperatives and beating your plowshares into swords. Religious Leaders Launch Fast to Protest Budget Cuts 2011-03-07T06:55:00Z The sword shall be beaten to a plowshare and the spear to a pruning-hook. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z We are plain countrymen of the royal county of Berks, village yeomen of small degree, who have beaten our plowshares into swords; but you, I may believe, judging from your speech, are somewhat higher. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Did you get the plowshare sharpened, Mr. Carson? Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z He was hammering on a red plowshare when Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z So instead of torturing unwilling children, teach more attorneys how to beat their swords into plowshares. Dot Earth: The Real Mother of Invention 2010-12-02T20:27:00Z Ultimately, that's what is meant by the verse in the Bible about "beating swords into plowshares." Using Cold War Tech For Peacetime Healing 2010-10-15T10:00:00Z It was certainly a primitive article, made of grey weathered wood and the plowshare also of some hard wood, just enough to stir the ground. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure The hand of man had not chiseled the virgin soil with plowshare, nor riveted its surface with post and rail. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter He traced by the plowshare the walls of the destined city. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. It was a bony brown face, slightly oily, with a long narrow jaw that jutted forward like a plowshare under an elastic smirk. The Ties That Bind No plowshare has touched the earth for years, maybe centuries. Red Nails It is a crooked branch with a plowshare fastened to it. The Bible Story The swords were turned into plowshares as quietly and naturally as if they never had been steeped in blood. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant They are exhumed from burial mounds in great numbers, and to an equal extent, perhaps, from simple, unmarked graves which are constantly being brought to light by the plowshare. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 All swords will become plowshares, all spears pruning hooks. Studies in Prophecy When the “seed” of Death’s “rude plowshare” Yielded bounteous “human harvests.” The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. Then they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View The hard, worn iron of his frame was there, like an old plowshare, useless now, no matter what furrows it had turned in its day. The Bondboy In that time his mentality had been turned over like a fallow field beneath the plowshare. Carmen Ariza She has blazed a way for advanced thought in her lonely course over the red-hot plowshares of resistance. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV His road lay to the right of the jutting plowshare of hill which seemed shaped for the mere purpose of splitting the highway. The Duke Of Chimney Butte We used to force the big plowshare through and cut grubs as big as my wrist. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail In the backyard, children were playing; a man was sharpening a plowshare at a wheel, and out of the kitchen-shed there came a clatter of dishes and the voice of a woman in song. The Trimming of Goosie At this moment the sun hides his radiant head in the far-distant seas; the farmer turns upward his plowshares and hastens to his cottage. Sielanka: An Idyll The weight, in the form of a plowshare, was made from swords condemned by the War Department. Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin's plowshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Quietly the golden grain ripens in the sun, and the red furrow of war is supplanted by the plowshares of peace. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier There are no instances of hoes with metal blades, except of very late time, nor is there any proof of the plowshare having been sheathed with metal. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life With a plowshare, by a yoke of oxen, the earth shall be broken up; the present mode of digging it with man's hand shall cease. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood A plowshare once made, remains a plowshare, 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 He felt for the little mouse which his plowshare turned out of its nest, and he pitied the poor hare which the unskillful fowler could only wound. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The Greeks had such divine patrons of the corncrib, beans, plowshare, cattle, city walls, banquets, potters, physicians, athletic contests, and even one hero known as the "frightener of horses" and a deity called the "flycatcher." Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It has been stated in a German periodical that traces of the plowshare have been distinguished in the fields adjoining this villa. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Not more to him who drives back the frontier than to him who follows after and wins that wilderness with sword re-shaped to a plowshare does the promise to Asher of old stand evermore secure! Winning the Wilderness At last I was working my own land; with the plowshare I was opening the gate of an unknown future; and my fingers tingled as I jerked the lines. Lorimer of the Northwest A wrought-iron fragment from a plowshare said to have been used for cultivating cotton in South Carolina. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 When within six miles of the Point, they found a plowshare, some surveying-instruments, a shirt, a light blue coat and a human under jaw-bone. A Virginia Scout Peace.—They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—Bible. Pearls of Thought The Remington rifle runs back the frontier line; the plowshare holds the land at last. Winning the Wilderness Some nation must lead the world out of the black night of war into the light of that day when "swords shall be beaten into plowshares." New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 I have already again and again pressed on your attention the beginning of the arts of men in the make and use of the plowshare. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 So the wee Robin flew away till he came to the King; and there he sat on a plowshare, and sang the King a cheery song. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk If he thought there was any danger of the nations beating their swords into plowshares we should see him "take the stump" against agriculture forthwith. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Less than these fierce plowshares would not have stirred the stubborn soil. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Property, industry, social order, had been torn up by the plowshare of war. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement One could not get a plowshare sharpened, a bolt, or a bushel of coal without making the long trip to town. Land of the Burnt Thigh Cutting and keen are the words of Truth, and like a burnished plowshare, it enters the unsightly field and uproots everything in its path. The Right Knock A Story View the fertile fields of Great Britain, where the hand of freedom conducts the plowshare, then look back upon your own, and see how mean will be the comparison. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 The busy plowshare had turned up the deep graves of departed passions. Edmond Dantès The soldier had to beat his sword into a plowshare, and small wonder if the blacksmithing was sometimes clumsy. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement It took steel for railroads, fences, and plowshares. Land of the Burnt Thigh "Very well, show me, please," she demanded, as she would if the question had been one of walking over red-hot plowshares. I've Married Marjorie Through the gospel histories Strauss ran his critical theory like a plowshare through a field of daisies. The Chief End of Man Anyhow, he makes a new kind of a machine and takes his savings and starts to make plowshares, ten a day, over in that little brick house, there. The Forbidden Trail There can scarcely be a new theory devised, for the human mind has long since gone over the whole ground with plowshare and rake. Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn All around us the land was being harnessed, a desert being conquered with plowshares as swords. Land of the Burnt Thigh For several days his voracious plowshare had been turning over the prairie in long ribbons of swath like the pages of a book. The Wrong Woman The day was clear and mild, and the soil, freshly cleft by the plowshare, sent up a light steam. The Devil's Pool He was a master mechanic, now owner of a little factory which turned out plowshares. The Forbidden Trail I ought to walk over red-hot plowshares, or wear a hair-shirt or something as a penance for my sins of this day. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party It is the grand plowshare that turns up the old soil of error and despotism and reveals the hidden treasures of truth. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. He beat his sword into a plowshare and his fiery charger into a plow-horse. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis He is urging onward a team of four thin and exhausted horses; the plowshare sinks into a stony and ungrateful soil. The Devil's Pool Moore had devised machinery which enabled him to turn out plowshares of a superior quality, in greater quantity and at a cheaper rate than any of his larger competitors in neighboring states. The Forbidden Trail I find them in the garden, For there's many hereabout; And often, when I go to plow The plowshare turns them out! Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Since that bygone day when Lee laid aside his sword forever, and his men went straggling back to their plowshares, America has become engaged in two other wars. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers The plowshare sinks deep into the well-cleaned ground, the ears hang heavy on the well-grown corn, and the turnip swells to colossal size. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag In the human kingdom warfare was to cease entirely; spears would be turned into pruning hooks and swords into plowshares. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The nations presently begin to beat swords into plowshares because the time has come. Caves of Terror This is what we have seen in our time, as never before in the history of man,—the product of the plowshare and the pruning hook being turned into instruments of war. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy They are the children of peace who have beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and know of no war. Introduction to Non-Violence Where energy dies in families or individuals, then it is well that their means die too, that their money should circulate through other hands, and their plowshare pass to those who can guide it better. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag He stepped to the adjoining field, and, selecting a clod with the steely polish of the plowshare upon it, threw it at the mare. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) All tools and metal implements, such as plowshares, knives, axes, saws, and so on, were made of bronze, which consists of copper mixed and hardened with tin. Hebrew Life and Times The beaver and the mink de42sert the streams whenever the plowshare disturbs the soil. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba It was a fiery trial for Tom—a way-picking among red-hot plowshares of embarrassment. The Quickening All his farming had been done with calloused hands on the plowshare. Destiny They must beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Ancient Art and Ritual Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date; Stern Ruin's plowshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library Why, then, are the British people throughout the length and breadth of our empire everywhere turning their plowshares into swords? New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Yet here I've been plowing now for two hours and more without any one having so much as ground a plowshare. Jerusalem Whenever I plowed I had to do acrobatics to save as much of the plowshare as possible from God's immortal granite. Destiny The light of a match revealed the tyrant roosting glumly on the summit of a ruined plowshare. Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration "I find them in the garden, For there's many hereabout; And often when I go to plow, The plowshare turns them out; For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in that great victory!" Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library "We are treading the ordeal path among the red-hot plowshares of politics." In the Days of Poor Richard And what, at the final analysis, could we have stolen but bales of hay, sacks of guano, and plowshares? Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Here no hungry winter congeals our blood like the rivers; Here no stony ground provokes the wrath of the farmer; Smoothly the plowshare runs through the soil, as a keel through the water. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study When they beat their swords into plowshares, the next move is to beat their competitors into foreign markets. More Toasts Franklin, the philosopher of the thunderbolt, the printing-press, and the plowshare. Washington's Birthday "I find them in the garden, For there's many hereabout; And often when I go to plow, The plowshare turns them out; For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in that great victory." McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader No man," he thought, "can pick his way over all these hot plowshares without stepping on some of them. The Redemption of David Corson And even as he set his plowshare, so he set his purpose to overcome all obstacles, and to marry Julia Anderson. The End of the World A Love Story The plowshare being done, the farmer handed the smith 50 cents. More Toasts It was rage that destroyed Thyestes with horrible perdition; and has been the final cause that lofty cities have been entirely demolished, and that an insolent army has driven the hostile plowshare over their walls. The Works of Horace Was sorrow the only plowshare that turned the quiescent soul to bountiful harvest? Broken to the Plow His father was the plantation blacksmith and Duncan liked to look on as plowshares, single trees, horse shoes, etc were turned out or sharpened. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives It may have been true long years ago that no shares, factory, bank, or railroad paid better dividends than the plowshare, but it is the veriest nonsense now. Adopting an Abandoned Farm A farmer, the other day, took a plowshare to the blacksmith's to be sharpened, and while the blacksmith worked the farmer chuckled and bragged about a sale of hogs he had just made. More Toasts Rusty bayonets will be turned up by their plowshares; strange coins, as puzzling as some of those of Roman times that we in Britain have found, will puzzle them. A Minstrel in France I find them in the garden, For there's many hereabout; And often when I go to plow, The plowshare turns them out! The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe Going beneath the surface of the ground I took hold of the plowshares, but did not succeed in stopping Ivan. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators. Main Street Through the ruins our men moved as ceaselessly and as restlessly as the tenants of an ant hill suddenly upturned by a plowshare. A Minstrel in France Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare. O Pioneers! It was the small devil in the ground who had wound his feet around the plowshares and held them. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories It rolled round and round, and dug its four sets of toes, each with three claws, every one as big as a plowshare, into the ground. Welsh Fairy Tales All shapes—swords, plowshares, elephants, and camels—and the sky pale like ivory. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Preparation was like a plowshare, although it turned up nothing valuable, and stimulated esthetic and emotional ardor. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Find in the Glossary the meaning of: fashioned; handiwork; wrought; anew; lust; brooding; forbore; plowshare. The Elson Readers, Book 5 He was dancing, it is true, but as if on burning plowshares; not a motion seemed to be voluntary. L'Assommoir Why doesn't his grandson hang up his old broadaxe and plowshare and worship them, if he must have idols, instead of that symbol of strife and bloodshed. In Exile and Other Stories To turn the bird sticks into pruning hooks and the bird baths into plowshares. Ptomaine Street They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. The World English Bible (WEB): Micah From a wide neighborhood horses were brought him to be shod, cart-wheels to be tired, axles to be mended, plowshares to be sharpened, and all sorts of odd jobs to be done. Mary Marston The accused was required to plunge his hand in boiling oil, or to walk across red-hot plowshares, or to maintain his innocence in armed fight and listed field, in person or by champion. The Crayon Papers VI, 8 "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks." Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The State is generally known now as the "Sunflower State," and for many years the sword has given place to the plowshare. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Sun, air, and purifying frosts mellow and sweeten the damp, heavy malarious ground, as the plowshare lifts it out of its low estate. Success with Small Fruits The plowshare had been busy with its oblivious labors, and the frequent harvest had nearly obliterated the vestiges of war. The Crayon Papers The plow is an extremely primitive affair—mainly of wood, although over the sharpened point which forms the plowshare a plate of iron has been fitted. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life There is a story told of a great Roman General who, after having conquered in many battles, beat his sword into a plowshare, and turned from war's alarms to the peaceful pursuit of agriculture. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Thus wiry roots of the catgut plant are so tough that they can almost stop a plowshare in the furrow. The Golden Bough The set of tools includes an assortment of plowshares, gimlets, hooks and spears and of other implements that are not found in our trades nor named in our dictionaries. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography At that moment Grant's plowshare struck a submerged boulder, and he was dumped precipitately into that element which he had been so generously apostrophizing. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day My father gathered his big chin, flat like a plowshare, into the trough of his bronze hand. The Sleuth of St. James's Square While we are hurrying on to make twelve-inch shield plates for our men-of-war, we can hardly dare to think of the days when the sword shall be turned into the plowshare. North America — Volume 2 He knew that an unaccustomed hand held the lines; he knew that of a right he should be treading the plowshares instead of climbing a mountain on a beautiful spring morning. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories I see it fixing its double plowshare against the back partition, arching into a bow and then suddenly releasing itself and striking the plug in front of it with its barbed forehead. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The virgin prairie, with her strange, subtle facility for entangling the hearts of men, lay undefiled by the mercenary plowshare; unprostituted by the commercialism of the days that were to be. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day A plowshare cuts through more of his superstitions than a mission school. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening The faultily constructed plowshares in use in some parts of France were unknown here, the hoe sufficed for the little field work that they did. The Country Doctor He cried; he blubbered; tears rolled over his dusty cheeks, making furrows like plowshares of grief. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories This six-fold plowshare is the chief excavating tool. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The last two exceed the others in length and stand out from the group in a double terminal plowshare. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I taught myself by teaching others, by passing on to them the modicum of seed that had ripened on the barren moor cleared, from day to day, by my patient plowshare. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography |
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