How To Use ploughboy In A Sentence
- 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
- The heritage is authentic: while the opportunist ploughboy was penning those lines, he was also courting the favour of every belted earl in the peerage.
- 'As ignorant as a ploughboy,' is a phrase fallen into disuse. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
- Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Bleak House
- The ploughman’s lunch originated in England, where fieldworkers have been called ploughmen or ploughboys since at least the middle of the fourteenth century. SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS
- I have no false pride, as many men of high lineage like my own have, and, in default of better company, will hob and nob with a ploughboy or a private soldier just as readily as with the first noble in the land. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy. The Wolves and the Lamb
- Born in 1793, at 7 he was a ploughboy, later a gardener and lime-burner. Times, Sunday Times
- 'Look' ee 'ere, Miss Zusie, this vowl' ave airt her vut; 'and the small ploughboy I before mentioned came in at the garden gate, holding a hen in his arms. Parables from Flowers
- Dennis did not mind being called a ploughboy a bit. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes
