How To Use Plough In A Sentence

Well, I hobbled along, and we ploughed all day; and come night, I boohooed and cried a good deal, and the children gits round me, and asks 'What's the matter, Peter?' Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.
We had to walk across a ploughed field.
My fingertips at this point were being sliced to the bone on the cheesewire strings but with usual English politeness i ploughed on now wanting fiona to hurray up. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease.

In 2004, when Merck's brand of simvastatin, known as Zocor, was about to go off patent, Merck teamed up with Schering-Plough to produce a new patented product called Vytorin, a combination of simvastatin and Zetia. Zetia: Down for the count?
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
Eli undershot this dark system. i oversaw Jaime when ate me Sky! it told present arch, that enwound sadly... above plough reeved whistle, driving wrung anti the week despite blue chance: "who he gainsaid us? 26th January '05
Across the upland above the cliff a ploughman drove leisurably forth and back, and always close behind his heels the earth was white with these birds inspecting the fresh-turned furrow. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
Ruddy-faced Frank, looking far younger than his 90 years, recalls how he worked with teams of Clydesdale horses, sometimes in pairs and threes for ploughing.
In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
It is a northern animal, nocturnal, and rarely seen, but not uncommon; they are frequently found in ploughed grasslands. Rural Hours
Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding.
The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter.
Farmers occasionally plough up old Indian relics.
With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.). Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
Tanzania had 40 million hectares of cultivatable land, but was able to plough only six million. ANC Daily News Briefing
Profits, he said, had been ploughed back into the business, re-equipping the warehouse and expanding the sales team.
The boat herself will tell you how to use the wind and how to plough the waters!
There's this particularly annoying position called the plough, (I secretly call it the pretzel), where you lie on your back and bring your legs up in the air and then over your head behind you. A Work in Progress
They lacked the long sleek lines of the local boats that went from tree to sea with such grace, under the shipwright's spell, turning the waves aside like coulters and combines, ploughing and harvesting.
He allegedly used state vehicles to take his children to school and also used state property and staff to build structures on his farm and plough his lands.
It was an old-fashioned farm that used oxen to plough the fields.
The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old. The Open Air
My last recollection was noting 120 mp/h on the air speed indicator, then I ploughed into trees.
The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
This leads the Stoics to a very anthropocentric view of the world, in which grain, olives and vines are for us to consume, sheep for clothing us with their fleeces, oxen for pulling our ploughs and so forth.
Previously they were left to lie fallow allowing rainwater to collect in the plough furrows.
On the long, steep scarp between the iron age hillfort above and ploughed fields below are white signs carved into the turf.
A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
That omission has been put right by Mr Pappalardo, who has ploughed through the ships' musters - the individual records of pay to members of all 33 ships' companies are held at Kew.
Down the hall, separated by a cordon sanitaire of three intervening rooms, yet another lawyer was ploughing through Butler's work, also using pen and paper.
If they plough on until it's dark, they would get this field finished.
Patice is given a panga, ploughshare, planer, bag of maize, bag of beans and small packets of tomato, onion, pumpkin and cabbage seed and he puts all of these in a hessian bag.
The following year (April 1967), I was within 400 metres of the previous sighting, and close to a patch of "ploughed" ground which I had seen on my way up the valley about six days before. Archive 2007-01-01
In the evening and at night, when the farmers came out to plough, or to sow or reap their wheat, the country hummed with activity like a distant industrial town.
She was given a warm welcome by farmers at the championships and even tried her hand at ploughing with two Irish draught mares, owned by brothers Joe and Padraig Fahy, of Corrandulla, Co Galway.
With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000.
That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough.
But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next.
The ploughman turned up some relics of ancient times.
The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed.
Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.
Competitors brought their own ploughs and swingletrees.
The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
The Council have deployed six gritters and four snowploughs and these will cover all the major roads in the county.
The adequate preparation is often achieved by ripping the land when the soil has good moisture, followed by chisel ploughing and the use of a fine harrow for fine seed preparation.
Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts.
Fortunately for me (but not for the tree) the pittosporum would have drastically slowed the car as it ploughed through my front courtyard.
Five plays later — all runs — and Baltimore was ahead 14-0 after McClain ploughed in from the 1 and Billy Cundiff tacked on the extra point. Statement win: Could beating Patriots fuel deep Ravens run?
Sabbatarianism, with the Lord's Day Alliance, a Canadian invention, in the van; then the gradual tightening of the laws against sexual irregularity, with the unenforceable New York Adultery Act as a typical product; and lastly, the general ploughing up and emotional discussion of sexual matters, with compulsory instruction in "sex hygiene" as its mildest manifestation and the mediaeval fury of the vice crusade as its worst. A Book of Prefaces
A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
From confused childhood and angst-ridden teen years to life in repressed rural Ireland during the 1970s, Joseph ploughs on, always looking in from the outside.
Halfway across the field, the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.
The farmer turned up a human skull while ploughing the field.
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
West of the Rhine, an increasing number of servile manses also had to do ploughing corvées, and the service of three days of work per week was often required from free manses, which had been exempted from it hitherto.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows.
All Trident Ploughshares protesters, who have broken into Faslane to attack Trident submarines, have been armed with hammers designed to destroy the subs' sensitive computer equipment.
The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.
Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning.
I was ploughing one day, some long time after the mare died, with what we call a buzzard plough. Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England
During 1878 one local factory employed thirty-five people and produced hundreds of ploughs and numerous harrows, reapers and scarifiers for the farmers.
The priest anointed the plough with sandalwood, salt, and holy chrism.
It is incipient agriculture, but should be carefully distinguished from the _field agriculture_ in which extensive pieces of land are subdued by the plough. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
Ploughing a wide furrow, this record draws on a history of influences from hip hop, funk, soul, and big beat.
It is an unequal yoking of things together that will not agree together; as bad as for the Jews to have ploughed with an ox and an ass or to have sown divers sorts of grain intermixed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
This one is my gift to all the lazy people who happen upon my blog and cant be bothered to plough any further to discover the bounteous and wondrous delights contained herein.
For more background on that, you should read the three posts I wrote back then, the last of which has enough pictures to give a sense of the whole concept without the effort of ploughing through my clumsy inarticulate prose.
He made history in the old days when he competed in ploughing championships with a pair of horses, at which he excelled.
Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
The plough has not yet reached Pongo-land; the only tools are the erem (little axe for felling), the matchet (a rude cutlass for clearing), the hoe, and a succedaneum for the dibble. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Across the surface of a vast upland plateau stretched the plains of Maras, fallow fields of gold and russet, broken by hedgerows of agave and patches of brown earth where oxen and ploughmen had been. One River
The IMF ploughed money into the country to help it sustain the peg, pledging an extra $22 billion as late as the end of 2000.
In Scotland barely a square mile of our landscape has not at one time or another felt the sharp edge of a plough or the woodman's axe.
The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork. The Newcomes
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
Exactly in the centre a groove is "ploughed" to the depth of Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
-- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
The ploughman turned up some buried treasure.
She spied a lone figure staggering aimlessly across a recently ploughed field just north of the farmhouse.
In February it is again manured and ploughed four or five times, and just before the sets are planted, some dung, four cart-loads to each cutcha beegah of low land, and five cart-loads to high land, are added. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
This will be absolutely essential if we want to avoid putting millions of additional hectares of land under the plough to feed a growing population.
Having two teams play home games on the same pitch over an English winter would have done more damage to the surface than would a farmer with a plough.
It was still possible to meander down country lanes, see horses pull ploughs and smell woodsmoke from the chimneys of thatched cottages in the evenings.
Without doubt his experience was slender, and it seemed absurd to pronounce concerning that of which he had no direct knowledge; but so it was, he could not outroot from his mind the persuasion that to plough, to sow, and to reap, were employments most befitting a reasonable creature, and from which the truest pleasure and the least pollution would flow. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
If he decides to plough an area that has not been treated in the past ten years, he must consult with Duchas.
The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post.
A truck ploughed into the back of the bus.
That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. XLI. Of Usury
In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
Despite recent closures of his restaurants, his culinary mission ploughs on.
Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
Roads will be removed or tunnelled and ploughed fields returned to open grassland.
His string-quartet concerto, after Handel, delightful though it may be, has as much relation to its originals as a pimpmobile to a plough or as Stravinsky's Pulcinella to ‘Pergolesi.’
A police spokesman said the Clio is believed to have careered out of control and mounted the roadside kerb before catapulting across the road towards oncoming traffic and ploughing into the van.
It has the moral right to know whether the money collected from gates is ploughed back into the sport.
One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.
Marlborough then ploughed out into the stormy Mediterranean and passed the rest of the Task Group, her arrival at the Cyprus training grounds being heralded by a severe electrical storm and waterspouts.
With the first of the summer rains expected at any time now and hence the need to plough the fields in preparation for sowing, the people do not have any seeds to plant.
And that agro-animal combine of farmer household's cropland's nitrogen surplus ratio was 66.04%, being the obvious problem of high plough into but low yield.
Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.
Along one side is the lovely green ripple of ridge and furrow pasture, unfortunately a portion has been ploughed.
Her twitching hands ploughed through the heap, and the coins tinkled among her fingers. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
To be sure, there was a gender division of labour: for example, in agriculture women worked in the farmyard and sold produce at the local market, while men ploughed the fields and dealt in livestock at fairs.
In he jumped, goggles on, and then proceeded to plough through the water doing a very bad and splashy front crawl.
Though they supplied handicraft products essential to the country and society, including ploughshares and spear heads, as well as pots and cloth of all kinds, they tended to be despised by the rest of the population.
A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand.
In the near term, it does not intend to pay any dividends, instead ploughing all profits back.
They ploughed away and were far from disgraced with the result.
Rituals associated with ploughing and planting of rice during monsoon and then again later at the end of monsoon were occasions to propitiate the gods for a bountiful harvest.
A tall gray man with piercing eyes and a sternly lined face remained firmly seated in the pinto's saddle, while four winged men, wearing clothing not too much unlike ploughmen's attire, circled the deck.
States and Territories, that the axe and the plough are the pioneers of civilization, that farms, cities, and villages, the schoolhouse, and the church, rise from the wilderness, as if by the touch of an enchanter's wand. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
Halfway across the field, the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.
I opened the collar of my shirtit was a vulgar blue-and-white check such as ploughmen wearand revealed a neck as brown as any tinker's. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
I ploughed through the list of courses and picked out about a dozen that appealed.
The hired girls especially identify with the plough; they all had to help their families with the farms: herding cattle, growing crops, and threshing wheat.
They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council.
The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
In numerous prints donkeys and sheep enslave millers and shepherds; farmers pull ploughs or carry sacks and baskets.
The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
After the wheat crop has been gathered, many farmers burn the remains and plough the ash into the soil , so as to enrich the soil.
He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base.
In their heyday in the Victorian era, these powerhouses of energy could plough 20 times faster than a horse-drawn ploughman and his team and were transported from farm to farm.
The peasant I had seen on my way to Evora that morning, trudging a field behind a hand-plough drawn by a pair of bullocks, might have been his father.
He will plough on with the inevitable consequence of more and more soldiers dead.
In the digital age, ambitious business owners also plough considerable resources into online marketing techniques, such as search engine optimisation and pay-per-click advertising, to attract new buyers.
We're going to plough the top field next week.
The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
A book kept during these years, a Memorandum of the cost of Lamplough Station including all expenses connected therewith has been preserved by Mark Stoddart's grand-daughter.
If we plough on until it's dark, we should get this field finished.
As a result of the agreement with Bayer, Schering-Plough expects it may need to sublicense rights to the Toyama product in the United States.
The tyres will be turned into rubber crumbs and ploughed back into various industries to be used in sport, leisure, equestrian, civil engineering projects and carpet underlay.
A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway.
The farmers ploughed the vegetable leaves back to enrich the soil.
A great babblement went across the open space — a babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
But the word _‘ash_, or _‘ayish_ does not differ importantly from the word _na‘sh_, in Hebrew "assembly," in Arabic "bier," which has been the word used by the Arabs from remote antiquity to denote the four bright stars in the hind-quarters of the Great Bear; those which form the body of the Plough. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
The most common tools used by farmers were metal tipped ploughs for turning over the soil and harrows to cover up the soil when seeds had been planted.
The introduction of the plough made possible much greater density of population, concentrated in villages and manors.
Farmers occasionally plough up old Indian relics.
Government bodies since the 1950s have pushed landowners and offered subsidies to plough up or lime the heather to allow the spread of grass.
One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
_Pattle_, or _pettle_, a small spades to clean the plough. 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
The usual fleet of wheel loaders, graders and plough/sander trucks maintains the road network.
Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her, she ploughed her way out into the open air.
The land surface's extent is uncertain, but there is probably a north-south strip five to ten metres wide parallel to the valley edge, buried, and protected from the effects of ploughing, by chalk solifluction sediments.
All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall.
Purpling historians starch neckerchiefs/buff ploughs in preparation for latest "living history" wow-fayre Catchup TV: the turn-ons and turn-offs
She opened the croft gate, and the women filed in, one by one before us, and stood on the unploughed plots of the croft.
Modern beer is thin washy stuff that ploughmen would have called small beer. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
By unfriendly critics, much has been made of the fact that the Dukhobor women perform the arduous work of harnessing themselves to the plough, but this is entirely at their own suggestion. Janey Canuck in the West
As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin.
Yet the good ship ploughed straight on, unretarded by wind or wave, towards the straits of Around the World in 80 Days
Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies.
Walking away from the grand old house, we crossed thick clay ploughland studded with flood-smoothed pebbles. Times, Sunday Times
The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
Thus I can remember one resident accoucheur being "ploughed," as we called it, in his special subject, obstetrics -- and men to whom you wouldn't trust your cat getting through with flying colours. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The ground was ploughed, and the seed sank beneath it from the sower's hand in spring; the earth was soft and sapful to a sufficient depth, and the roots of the springing corn found ample room to range in; the soil was clean, and its fatness, not shared by usurping weeds, went all to the nourishment of the sown seed: therefore in the balmy air and under the beaming sun it is ripe to-day, and ready to fill the reaper's bosom. The Parables of Our Lord
It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm. Biographies of Working Men
In old society many talented young people were too often ploughed under.
The Roman town of Great Chesterford lies on the northern boundary of Essex, almost all of it hidden beneath a ploughed field.
But to hinder and let it all men's ears are open; yea, and a great many of this kind of ploughmen, which are very busy, and would seem to be very good workmen. Sermons on the Card
A team of oxen at ploughing time was vital and a village might club together to buy one or two and then use them on a rota basis.
He said, ‘It takes a deep-going plough to uproot the heaviest clods of earth.’
The poverty-stricken widow always congratulated herself upon its conclusion, and it never occurred to her that the amount of work that Birt did in the tanyard was a disproportionately large return for the few days that the tanner's mule ploughed their little fields. Down the Ravine
The builders ploughed in a lot of young trees when they cleared this area for development.
But even then, Newport would win the line-out and plough down field.
Schools could lose funding if it is not being properly allocated, he said, after accusations that some schools have "hoarded" their share of the extra money Labour has ploughed into education. The Guardian World News
Vestiges of a street plan can sometimes be seen on ploughed land north-east of the amphitheatre.
At the International Exhibition in 1888-89 his entry of a grain-stripping machine, a furrow plough and iron swingletrees was among those gaining the highest possible award.
Ireland will be represented for the first time in the reversible plough event at the Czech University of Agriculture complex.
Not only did they provide milk for dairy purposes, but they also were used as draught animals to pull ploughs and carts.
After the wheat crop has been gathered, many farmers burn the remains and plough the ash into the soil , so as to enrich the soil.
The soldiers kept ploughing ahead in spite of the difficulties.
The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
[301] In 1827 Scott was one day heard saying, as he saw Peter guiding the plough on the haugh: -- "Egad, auld Pepe's whistling at his darg: if things get round with me, easy will be his cushion! The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
After months without rain, the ground was too hard to plough.
Each time it snows again, the dog spins and barks, snapping at flakes, ploughing through drifts, as if this were the first snow she'd ever seen.
George the Third is in his mad dotage, Napoleon is ploughing through Europe and Lord Byron is whoring his way to Greece.
Each year he repays part of the cost of the oxen, the plough, and the cultivator, that is, 12 000 francs. Chapter 3
In some cases horned animals are harnessed to simple ploughs.
I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat.
To the 'ploughshare' and the 'plough' the Rig Veda has an hymn (IV. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next.
If the land be ploughed out of ley once in ten or 12 years there is no danger of the seeds missing.
The Sidamo, who have a highly developed agriculture including ploughing with oxen and terracing of fields, produce the famous Ethiopian coffee of their name.
Level with the anchor winch, the entire side of the hull is sharply stoved in and ripped open where the Polish trawler Snardy ploughed into the side of the lightship on 16 August 1967.

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