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  • 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.
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  • A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
  • 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.
  • Profits, he said, had been ploughed back into the business, re-equipping the warehouse and expanding the sales team.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed.
  • 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
  • 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?
  • A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
  • Halfway across the field, the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.
  • Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows.
  • The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post.
  • A truck ploughed into the back of the bus.
  • 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.
  • It has the moral right to know whether the money collected from gates is ploughed back into the sport.
  • In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand.
  • They ploughed away and were far from disgraced with the result.
  • Halfway across the field, the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.
  • I ploughed through the list of courses and picked out about a dozen that appealed.
  • 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.
  • He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base.
  • The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
  • 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.
  • Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her, she ploughed her way out into the open air.
  • All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall.
  • She opened the croft gate, and the women filed in, one by one before us, and stood on the unploughed plots of the croft.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The wind filled the sails and the ropes creaked and stretched with the strain as the ship ploughed through the waves.
  • Three young men had a lucky escape after their car left the road, ploughed through a bridge parapet and ended up on its roof in a river.
  • A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
  • He ploughed into a metal container, which was shunted 60 ft before coming to rest within inches of the bungalow.
  • The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen.
  • The Northwest Transport freight truck left the road and ploughed into the fringe of trees between the road and the Mayo power line clearing, bulldozing its own small clearing and making it difficult to get at.
  • A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand.
  • He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles, but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow.
  • In several late winter snow storms, it ploughed right through the ugliest passing lane slush, allowing the driver to arrive relaxed even after two hours of full-on winter driving.
  • The forvalaka ploughed into Gota, tipping the table on which she had been laid out. Soldiers Live
  • A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
  • The land is ploughed and then the seed is sown, the crop sprayed, the harvest taken, and so on.
  • Then France, driving an articulated lorry and trailer, ploughed into the rear of the van, then collided with the parked Range Rover.
  • It is to be propitiated rather than harnessed: young couples make love in the newly ploughed furrows at seedtime as imitative magic to guarantee fertility.
  • The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.
  • A 1.5 metre long slab of the brick wall was dislodged after the truck ploughed front-first into the door.
  • A third articulated lorry travelling behind the three vehicles also moved across and as it did so ploughed into the back of the car, shunting it into the trucks in front.
  • Some smiles now, and many thanks to the staff of our technology desk, who have ploughed the highways and byways of the information superhighway for a selection of amusing advertisements.
  • The farmers ploughed the vegetable leaves back to enrich the soil.
  • Buybacks and profits retained by companies, rather than ploughed back by investors, may boost earnings per share.
  • The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.
  • Within the vast enclosure of the Altar to the God of Agriculture, the Emperor ploughed the first annual furrow to bless the earth and preserve its fertility.
  • A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
  • Land used for grazing sheep and cattle together with ploughed arable land combine to form a patchwork of field colours and textures.
  • He ploughed through the book to the end.
  • The car went out of control and ploughed into the side of a bus.
  • Likening the heart to soil, and the work of the Spirit to a farmer sowing seeds, Cairns exhorts his readers to break up the unploughed ground.
  • On your knees, and as he ploughed 'em up, you were picking taties into a bucket, and then after you got so far up t'row you'd empty taties into a bucket, and then after you got so far up t'row you'd empty them into a sack.
  • The field was furrowed, ploughed, but nothing was growing, not at this time of year.
  • Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea.
  • The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post.
  • It ploughed off the motorway, behind the motorway bridge crash barrier(sentence dictionary), and into the concrete upright.
  • The basis of the whole scheme of measurement in Domesday was the hide, usually of 120 acres, the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of 8 oxen in a year; a quarter of this was the virgate, an eighth the bovate, which would therefore supply one ox to the common team. A Short History of English Agriculture
  • Also much of Spain was infertile land and the more fertile land near the Mediterranean Sea was not ploughed due to the fear of pirates.
  • Hey, buddy. I was beginning to figure they'd ploughed you Into the Fatherland.
  • We had been admiring stylish old metal gates, and with the wide unploughed field boundaries had been singing the praises of the typically walker-friendly East Riding.
  • He ploughed on, trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention.
  • Therefore, 67 acres of the marled field only will be put under corn; and the remaining 33 acres ploughed lor pea-fallow, and the peas sown late in May or early in June.
  • If there was a spoon or a knife missing, Abner often found it in the ploughed field, where I had been using it as a kind of pickaxe to dig my way through to China. Aunt Madge's Story
  • After the land was ploughed, the turned earth would contain large clods of earth that required breaking up.
  • Each time the soil is ploughed or cultivated and exposed to more oxygen and high temperatures the existing organic material is degraded.
  • One sometimes sees on a hillside a ploughed field of red earth which at a distance might easily be taken for a field of blossoming trifolium. Afoot in England
  • With airspeed picked up, the lumbering giant quit moving with the movement of the heavy swells and leaving one crest we ploughed into the next.
  • It can either be grubbed up and burnt or ploughed under.
  • The builders ploughed in a lot of young trees when clearing this area for development.
  • The cannonading grew, as the Russians turned their guns southward, I saw columns of earth ploughed up to the east of the Highlanders 'position, and with my heart in my mouth I buried my head in the horse's mane and fairly flew across the turf. The Sky Writer
  • Each upright is "ploughed" alike; they are then glued and nailed to the top and bottom by brads running through; the rounded edges falling outside. 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
  • Millions of tonnes are spewed out of vehicle exhausts and power station smokestacks every year, as well as being released from the soil when fields are ploughed.
  • He ploughed on, trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention.
  • The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003.
  • We had to walk across a ploughed field.
  • The soil is ploughed and harrowed smooth whilst waiting for the suitable time to transplant young shoots of rice that have been pre-planted in small, separate paddies.
  • All of us lived together, ploughed together, and harvested the crops together.
  • Tuesday tropical weather hit us and drove us into pajamas -- a cloudless sky, blazing sun, high humidity, while we ploughed our way across long, slow-rolling, unrippled swells that looked so much like a vast, gently heaving sea of petroleum that, had John D. Standardoil been with us he would have suffered a probably fatal attack of heart disease if prevented from stopping right there and planning a pipe line. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
  • Likening the heart to soil, and the work of the Spirit to a farmer sowing seeds, Cairns exhorts his readers to break up the unploughed ground.
  • A Newcastle-Kings Cross express hit the car and ploughed into a northbound coal train.
  • However, nothing could have prepared them for the additional problems caused by heavy traffic as it ploughed through the deep water.
  • Runners in the half marathon in March ploughed on through tough weather conditions and continuous rain to get round the 12-mile course.
  • The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.
  • On the first Monday following Twelfth Night, the corn dolly would be ploughed back into the soil so that its spirit would be released and ensure a good harvest.
  • They have been scattered along the rows of houses like seed in a ploughed furrow, and according to the seed sown, is the crop raised; tears for some, and smiles for others; joy and grief, like unseen spirits, entering with the post. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • 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.
  • Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea.
  • But she ploughed on and landed a job doing interviews at this year's T in the Park, where she met fellow Scottish music television presenter Edith Bowman.
  • So, I put my fears down to beginners' nerves and ploughed on.
  • A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus.
  • They ploughed their profits back into further investment.
  • He, from near Thirsk, has come up with a way of reducing the surface run-off from ploughed land during and after heavy rainfall.
  • The creature it belonged to ploughed against the current for a while, and then disappeared. It had presumably returned to its haunts in the murky, peaty depths of the lake.
  • The farmers ploughed money into land improvement last year.
  • It has been an interesting exercise this year and most particularly with the availability of the various derogations on fallow or ploughed or failed crop land.
  • The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed.
  • Two planes ploughed into New York's landmark - World Trade Center, demolishing the twin 110 - story towers.
  • Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
  • Relief only came - too late for some - on Friday afternoon when a convoy of trucks carrying food and water supplies ploughed through the flood waters.
  • The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003.
  • The land should be well ploughed to the depth of 15 cm to 20 cm, and harrowed to provide reasonable tilth and good ridges.
  • Julia ploughed on with the endless exam papers.
  • Arnold ploughed his violent ambition into his own body by working out constantly.
  • Nobody ever made a more straight drill or ploughed a field with such precision and he was at his happiest as he turned the rich brown soil followed by a flock of hungry gulls.
  • At first we see only what is uprooted and ploughed in, -- the daisy drabbled, and the violet crushed, -- and the first trees planted amid the unsightly furrows stand dumb and disconsolate, irresolute in leaf, and without flower or fruit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone. Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
  • He looked displeased but she ploughed on regardless .
  • The company ploughed a large sum into that project.
  • We have ploughed a phosphorescent furrow in the darkness through chunky, Atlantic seas, windward of the West Indies, from Barbados down to Tobago.
  • We ploughed through the mud.
  • -- In the Rajahmundry district, during the months of April and May, the ground is frequently ploughed, until brought into a very fine tilth. 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
  • He pictured himself on the rolling deck with the wind and the rain in his face and the ship rising to the waves as she ploughed her way westward towards the shores of the USA.
  • A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital.
  • An idyllic spot of woodland might hove into view, but tantalisingly only as a remote island in an ocean of ploughed fields.
  • 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.
  • The relations between both counties are like an unploughed land.
  • The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.
  • Three or four times he cruised low over the sea to give me a glimpse of the whales as they ploughed through the water on their way to give birth in the Mozambique Channel.
  • The great ship ploughed across the ocean.
  • The train arrived and left on time, and ploughed through Essex and out into Suffolk at speeds unfamiliar to us weekday travellers.
  • I had stopped to listen, propped against a tree for only a few minutes, when a Kokako appeared walking along a log which protruded from a thick patch of fern beside a patch of "ploughed" ground. Archive 2007-01-01
  • The car went out of control and ploughed into the side of a bus.
  • Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease.
  • The posthouse was in ruins, and the stone walls on either side between the gates and the parapet of the fortifications had been crumbled into rubbish; the glacis from the Point du Jour to Auteuil had been ploughed up in such a manner that not a yard of it was to be seen without a shell hole. The Insurrection in Paris
  • We had to walk across a ploughed field.
  • Meanwhile the same ground has been bulldozed again, and ploughed.
  • To carry out the order, the policemen took a tractor and ploughed up the field.
  • A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital.
  • In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
  • Another major emitter of pollution is farming, which releases carbon dioxide when the earth is ploughed and during other activities.
  • He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles, but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow.
  • Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one.
  • It was rutted, like a ploughed field, and rock-hard.
  • It ploughed through many farmsteads, homes and lands.
  • The car went out of control and ploughed into the side of a truck.
  • Terminal plans show pipelines, with a 45-metre working width, running across seven of Les's fields - fields which have remained unploughed for generations and produce some of the finest grazing in Wales.
  • He had five hectares of land, on which he grew rice and maize, and which was ploughed by horses.
  • Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
  • The ploughed earth looked rich and dark and fertile.
  • A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus.
  • The farmers ploughed money into land improvement last year.
  • He ploughed on for 35 minutes and his audience grew increasingly restless.
  • We had been admiring stylish old metal gates, and with the wide unploughed field boundaries had been singing the praises of the typically walker-friendly East Riding.
  • With stock markets plunging, people have ploughed their money into property; others have remortgaged their existing homes to give them more cash to spend, fuelling consumer spending.
  • This resulted in deep ruts and heavy vehicle tyre tracks leaving it looking like a ploughed field.
  • Today very little Renosterveld is left as most of it has been ploughed up for crop cultivation.
  • The process had to start again with the field reploughed and new seeds drilled.
  • The government has ploughed more than $20 billion into building new schools.
  • Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone. Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
  • Terminal plans show pipelines, with a 45-metre working width, running across seven of Les's fields - fields which have remained unploughed for generations and produce some of the finest grazing in Wales.
  • Proceeds are ploughed back into the show, with some donations going to Bingley Rotary Club, which stewards the event.
  • The use of the mucuna bean also produces excellent compost and suppresses weeds, and the land never needs to be ploughed.
  • A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway.
  • _Jumowah_, at nine rupees per biggah, which is very easily effected if the planter is not very vigilant, he is obliged to maintain an extensive and imposing establishment of servants, not only to enforce the sowings, weeding, and cutting, but also to look after his khoonte, and protect it from being destroyed by bullocks and grass cutters, or from being ploughed up clandestinely by the 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
  • Drivers in the queue reported hearing a ‘fierce noise of screeching tyres’ and a frightening crunch as a white lorry ploughed into the bus and rolled it over.

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