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
Let us concede that the high-born Grig rode into the entrenchments at Sobraon as gallantly as Corporal Wallop, the ex-ploughboy. The Book of Snobs
I do not wish to make an idol of the Shorter Catechism; but the fact of such a question being asked opens to us Scotch a great field of speculation; and the fact that it is asked of all of us, from the peer to the ploughboy, binds us more nearly together. Memories and Portraits
The proverbial ploughboy singing the psalms at his work as Tyndale put it. Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London
“Here,” said the ploughboy, “is something for you — from the master.” Madame Bovary