How To Use Ploughman In A Sentence
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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.
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An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
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Ever since British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads scored with their 1979 single Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) -- which celebrated people like Elvis and the Marx Brothers and pleasures like Ploughman's sandwiches (cheddar cheese and a pickle) and "coming out of chokey" (solitary confinement) -- inquiring minds have wondered about parts one and two.
Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 1)
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“Every farmer his own plowman while sitting on his front porch,” Dick baffled back.
CHAPTER XVI
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To lay aside the world's distressing cares at sunset, to wipe his moistened brow, and "homeward plod his weary way" to his cabin small and lowly, where glows this cheerful love in one dear breast, in one sweet face, is to the uncouth "ploughman" a joy, a comfort, which many a prince doth envy.
The Doctor's Daughter
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Bill, who died following a long illness was a black smith by trade and an expert ploughman who won many ploughing competitions at county level as well as the All Ireland Ploughing Championship in Limerick in 1948.
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You and your class will not spend a merry hour when these words are turned into deeds and Peter the Plowman grows weary of swinking in the fields and takes up his bow and his staff in order to set this land in order.
Sir Nigel
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Whereby Sir John, and the keeper, and the steward, and the gardener, and the ploughman, and the dairymaid, and all the hue-and-cry together, went on ahead half a mile in the very opposite direction, and inside the wall, leaving him a mile off on the outside; while Tom heard their shouts die away in the woods and chuckled to himself merrily.
The Water Babies
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He chewed the cheese and the lettuce leaf, and cursed every ploughman in England for choosing to dine upon such swill.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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James was a hard-working farmer, who was a champion ploughman and cattle breeder.
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Thus, this Vision of Piers Plowman indicates the existence of a popular spirit which had been slowly but steadily increasing -- which sympathized with Henry II. and the priest-trammelling "Constitutions of Clarendon," even while it was ready to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket, the illustrious victim of the quarrel between Henry and his clergy.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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He chewed the cheese and the lettuce leaf, and cursed every ploughman in England for choosing to dine upon such swill.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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In, say, 12 th-century France, the ox behind which a man plowed a field changed, but otherwise the plowman was doing what generations of his ancestors had done and what generations of his descendants would do.
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When he had visited me at the farm, elegant as he was, I had contrasted him unfavourably with the absent "ploughman," wondering that language had only provided one word, "man," by which to designate two creatures so different.
The Late Miss Hollingford
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Jim Laker, Suez and W H Auden
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In vegetation so dense it was sometimes impossible to find the ground, we collected wild begonias and salvias, delicate ferns and oxalis, boehmerias and at least three unknown plants, a new species of Dalbergia, a new Centropogon with a brilliant red corolla, and an exquisite aroid later named for Tim, Caladium plowmanii.
One River
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As Paulson, the head plowman, complained privily to Dawson, the crop manager:
CHAPTER IV
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Taller than either Walter or Johen, and very thin, he did not look like Walter's mental image of a plowman, especially not one coming from a northern county.
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One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed.
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If the ploughman can get his whip, his ploughstaff, hatchet, or any thing that he wants in the field, by the fireside before the maid hath got her kettle on, then the maid loseth her Shrove-tide cock, and it belongs wholly to the men.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted.
Anthony Lyveden
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The very first reference to that legendary activist Robin Hood appears in 1362 in a work credited to William Langland and known as The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman.
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Bill, who died following a long illness was a black smith by trade and an expert ploughman who won many ploughing competitions at county level as well as the All Ireland Ploughing Championship in Limerick in 1948.
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To ripen the beet-root, to water the potato, to increase the yield of lucern, of clover, or of hay; to be a fellow-workman with the ploughman, the vinedresser, and the gardener, -- this does not deprive the heavens of one star.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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I had a ploughman's in The Bull.
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Thereupon the ploughman took the Ass, and worked him through the live long day at the Bull's task; and, when he failed for weakness, he made him eat stick till his ribs were sore and his sides were sunken and his neck was hayed by the yoke; and when he came home in the evening he could hardly drag his limbs along, either fore hand or hind legs.
Arabian nights. English
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Like his poem's busy plowman, the dog absorbed by doggy life, the executioner's itchy horse, like the pretty ship with somewhere else to go, we too seldom attend to -- too seldom partake in -- the failing and the suffering of our various members, and we therefore fail to realize the fullness, the reality, the appalling mystery of life as One Body.
Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation
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It's doubtful if a real ploughman carried bread, butter, cheese and pickle with him.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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The very first reference to that legendary activist Robin Hood appears in 1362 in a work credited to William Langland and known as The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman.
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My plowman was a young man -- a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
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James was a hard-working farmer, who was a champion ploughman and cattle breeder.
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There was little more than a rather brutish Ploughman's to tempt them, foodwise, but that didn't stop the wine, and conversation, from flowing freely.
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This 'heaven-taught ploughman' was actually the product of a rigorous bicultural education.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Your ploughman, I suppose, becoming one degree poorer than he was born to be, would only go without his dinner, or without his usual potation of ale.
Saint Ronan's Well
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A lord, no doubt, may be a "birkie" and a "coof," but may not a ploughman be so too?
Robert Burns
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To the Edinburgh literati who took him up after the success of his Kilmarnock edition of 1786 he played up to the image of the ‘heaven-taught ploughman’ as created by that second-rate poetaster Henry Mackenzie.
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The only trick the designer has failed to borrow from ancient Greek inscriptions is the boustrophedon, the ‘ploughman style’ in which words are written with alternate lines left to right then right to left.
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I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
2008 December 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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_ _Puck_, _pouke_, we find in O.E. (Old E.glish Miscellany, _E. E.T.S._, 76), in Piers Plowman, and surviving in Spenser; but there are countless analogous forms:
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
2008 December 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Leftover pasta, vegetable and beef stir fry, ploughman is a favourite (meat, cheese, hard boiled egg, chutney & bread).
Lunch Wars « Bored Mommy
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An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
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The ploughman turned up some buried treasure.
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The ploughman turned up some relics of ancient times.
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The plowman poet spoke not only to his fellow commoners but also the intellectuals of Edinburgh and many Scottish lords of the manors.
Robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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It's snowing again in the New England, and of course the plowman is on his own timetable.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
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The artisan depends on his labour alone, he is a free man while the ploughman is a slave; for the latter depends on his field where the crops may be destroyed by others.
Emile
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Beacon fires on the hills, the blowing of horns, and the despatch of runners were familiar to the tenants, and often called the ploughman away from the furrow to the appointed gathering-place.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
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I've heard it said that at Forst Reach, 'plowman' and 'wild beast tamer' are considered to be one and the same thing.
Oathblood
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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.
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Your ploughman was a little too greedy for land, it seems.
The Potter's Field
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In, say, 12 th-century France, the ox behind which a man plowed a field changed, but otherwise the plowman was doing what generations of his ancestors had done and what generations of his descendants would do.
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Indeed, the use of alliteration in Old English poetry and in Piers Ploughman might also have influenced his poetic style.
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A ploughman's lunch was provided and the cooler weather contributed to a very enjoyable fun day.
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One of the most popular lunches in Great Britain is called a ploughman's lunch.
Hell in a Handbasket
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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
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A lord, no doubt, may be a "birkie" and a "coof," but may not a ploughman be so too?
Robert Burns
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Taller than either Walter or Johen, and very thin, he did not look like Walter's mental image of a plowman, especially not one coming from a northern county.
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`Perhaps we can stop somewhere and have a ploughman 's and a pint.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Jess was said to look not unkindly on Ebie Farrish, the younger ploughman who had recently come to Craig Ronald from one of the farms at the "laigh" end of the parish.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Autumn is ideal for crisp British apples to accompany a ploughman's lunch of local farmhouse cheese.
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Yet it had a single end; like Piers Plowman before it, and Pilgrim's Progress afterwards, The Faerie Queene led the reader along the path upon which truth was distinguishable from falsehood.
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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
