How To Use Plowing In A Sentence

Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
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.
It showed two white police pickup trucks, with large bullbars on the front bumpers, plowing separately into a group of protesters. SeMissourian.com Headlines
Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat.

As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
That causes such hassles for retailers as longer police-response times, as well as less-frequent snow plowing and trash pickup.
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.
You'll see them sideslipping and snowplowing, while moving at a speed so slow it's painful to watch.
One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles.
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.
Though he could be an imposing force on the defensive line, he was downright scary rumbling out of the backfield as a fullback, plowing a path for teammate Walter Payton.
The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust.
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.
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.
(On a previous trip to Guangzhou, I ran into housewives plowing through cages of puppies and kittens to pick a particularly tasty-looking one for the stewpot.) One City, Many Cuisines
Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.
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.
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
The farmer unearthed a valuable artifact while plowing his field.
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.
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
Still, I found it rough-hewn, lacking in nuance, plowing right through the music without a natural flow.
Ploughing a wide furrow, this record draws on a history of influences from hip hop, funk, soul, and big beat.
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.
But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords.
For the pre-mated high-voltage cable that is already installed in conduit that comes on 2500-foot reels, the total cost for the cable AND plowing it in with a cat-mounted cable plow last summer was: $3.02 for the cable + $1.25 to rip (1st run by cat) and then lay the cable (2nd run) = $4.28 per foot; ** IF** you do NOT have to prepare/dig any sections with an excavator. Sound Politics: Open Thread On The Storm
Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites.
UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recalls plowing through the complete Sherlock Holmes collection on his first NBA road trip. The NBA's Locker-Room Nerds
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.
Holy cripes, think of how the person in the truck who had the right-of-way will feel after plowing you down!
We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here.
Plowing through layers and layers of ice, the demon finally broke the surface.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.
Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.
In the near term, it does not intend to pay any dividends, instead ploughing all profits back.
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.
I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’
The Danthonia was decimated by the corellas this year. The mothers just pulled up all the new growth by the 1,000's when plowing the paddocks.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
‘Hey guys,’ she said to all of them, snowplowing to a stop and doing the group's handshake with Sergio and Peter.
Whether you are out for a brisk winter walk or backcountry snowboarding the new generation of snowshoes will have you floating over the terrain instead of plowing through it.
‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed.
Down behind our house my father maintained a vegetable garden which, the main growing season having ended, he had been plowing under with his tiller for a couple of days.
The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
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
SDOT trucks are applying anti-icer, deicer, and also plowing the snow where needed, SDOT said in a news release. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
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.
As we pointed out, farming techniques are rapidly evolving away from plowing residues back into the ground, in light of studies that show this actually reduces the organic content of the soil due to the disruption of microfauna. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
During such a test, the skier should avoid snowplowing and sliding on turns.
My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades.
The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
Telling my parents ‘No’ is like talking to a steamroller: they don't listen, and insist on plowing you over or dragging you along whether you like it or not.
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.
The soldiers kept ploughing ahead in spite of the difficulties.
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.
The truck's underbody was snowplowing the whole time, and we made it about half-way before the snow accumulated into a solid wall through which we couldn't pass.
The Sidamo, who have a highly developed agriculture including ploughing with oxen and terracing of fields, produce the famous Ethiopian coffee of their name.
While rock-plowing proved beneficial for planted crops, it also proved exceedingly beneficial for non-native plant species.
His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth.
He watched the liner ploughing the foam.
He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event.
In the distance, on the low, easy-sloping hills, he saw team after team, and many teams, three to a team abreast, what he knew were his Shire mares, drawing the plows back and forth across, contour-plowing, turning the green sod of the hillsides to the rich dark brown of humus-filled earth so organic and friable that it would almost melt by gravity into fine-particled seed-bed. CHAPTER II
What with the likes of Episodes and Louie now ploughing the postmodern furrow, meta-TV seems to have become a common-or-garden comedy genre like satire, surrealism and topical quiz shows. Curb your Enthusiasm – season eight, episode one
At 250 ppm, the oil discouraged termites from plowing through the sand.
Planting food plots is more difficult than most think, getting out there on the tractor and bushhogging and plowing and then planting. Food Plots Vs. Baiting
earing," but the Revised Version "ploughing;" next in Ex. 34: 21 and Deut. Easton's Bible Dictionary
But they say that the measures do not address the real problem of the bridge itself and have painted nightmare scenarios of fully laden petrol barges sheering off mudbanks close by and ploughing into it.
While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing.
Here the geese are being driven home; the cows are crossing a ford; the oxen are ploughing; the sower is scattering his seed; the reaper plies his sickle; the oxen tread the grain; the corn is stored in the granary. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.
He was one of a multitude of Minnesotans digging, plowing and blowing their way out from under Saturday's ripsnorter of a storm. StarTribune.com rss feed
Instead of ploughing into it, however, it struck a tractor and trailer coming from the left.
Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
The government is more than adept at ploughing its own diplomatic furrow.
For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on.
During such a test, the skier should avoid snowplowing and sliding on turns.
There were tractors ploughing the soil, many of the shrubs had been uprooted and it was buzzing with activity.
Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
Land projection included one deep plowing.
For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on.
Thus, the sense of plowing frozen ground with a toothpick, with attendant crises of confidence and crabbiness. Progress Report
This jug was found in fragments, and the human figure as well as part of the plough have been reconstructed after the ploughing scene on pis. ix; x, a. To the same type belongs the jug on pi. xxiii, a, along the upper part of which are placed two cups and a juglet. Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
But the landscape, in its first sweet leafiness, is so alive with ploughing and sowing and all the natural tasks of spring, that the war scars seem like traces of a long-past woe; and it was not till a bend of the road brought us in sight of Gerbéviller that we breathed again the choking air of present horror. Fighting France
We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock.
Farmers start ploughing in the spring.
Animals that once had to be slaughtered to provide winter food could now be sustained through the winter for future ploughing.
A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
He remembered the car careering off the road, ploughing through a hedge and rolling over a couple of times.
In this way they work at a constant and effective system of ploughing, which enriches and oxygenates the soil.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
Although the entire town was farmland, he would go to the plowing fields and rice paddies and work until dusk.
Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district.
The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway.
The park protects a vast tract of unbroken tussock grassland that, due to farming and ploughing, is now rare and vulnerable in New Zealand.
The earth is sacred, and no ploughing or sowing or reaping can take place without some religious rite.
The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth.
Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell.
Ten years after the last plowing, it was evident to Leopold that the reborn Curtis prairie was only a half-breed wilderness.
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1.
_corvée_, that is to say, an unfixed amount of ploughing, which the steward could demand every week when it was needed; the distinction corresponds to the distinction between _week work_ and _boon work_ in the later Middle Ages. Medieval People
Reveries of former felicity are interrupted by the sight of a valiant little vessel ploughing towards us through choppy seas.
Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles.
Ploughing through the deep snow in my high boots,I finally reached the farmhouse.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
Apart from expediting the corporatisation process in the film industry, it needs to nurture a habit of ploughing back earnings, he said.
As a result the ground could be cultivated more deeply and broken up by ploughing in a single direction.
Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell.
There were sheep and goat herders carrying long guide sticks, men plowing with oxen or leading camels to market.
Some weeks earlier they had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn and then harrowing the cloddy ground, Ruby driving the horse while Ada rode the drag to add weight. Cold Mountain
Ruskin, from whom we continue to quote, says: It never stops at crusts or ashes, or outward images of any kind, but ploughing them all aside, plunges at once into the very central fiery heart; its function and gift are the getting at the root; its nature and dignity depend on its holding things always _by the heart_. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Conservation or reduced tillage systems do not involve moldboard plowing and maintain some previous crop residue on the soil surface.
We are doing a huge amount of moldboard plowing and would really like to replace some of these passes with something that builds rather than damages the soil.
Mills was ploughing through the fleet on his 60 ft super yacht when his skipper spotted two boats flying the French tricolor.
Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end.
During such a test, the skier should avoid snowplowing and sliding on turns.
Another alternative is to use so-called cellulosic ethanol produced from such plants as switchgrass since they do not require annual replowing and planting. Undefined
I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it.
The resulting liquid brine helps break down the ice for easier plowing and removal.
But what I saw was a peaceful landscape dotted with one man ploughing with a dun mule.
Just beneath them an excursion steamer was ploughing its way through the waves, bound citywards on its return trip. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane
One morning, my swimming teacher (actually a rather bored history master who'd been drafted in to help out), who had been watching me doggedly ploughing along in this manner, unexpectedly creased up with helpless laughter.
The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust.
While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy.
Farmers start ploughing in the spring.
Regarding the animals, factors such as calving, ploughing and fattening seasons must be considered. Chapter 6
It is also expected that the reigning World Ploughing Champion will take part.
Our noble and gallant ship with her 15,000 yards of canvas and stunsails in addition is ploughing the main most majestically.
he hired someone to do the plowing for him
One of life's great joys is ploughing your way through a reasonably intelligent, breathless thriller.
We're always open to listening, but ... we're more in sync with the idea of plowing forward," said Jon James, deputy superintendent of the Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway division. Jones Point Park makeover will keep people out for 2 years
Corvées of ploughing and long-distance cartage were the most durable elements of the manorial system and were the services most wanted by the lord.
Could she truly be so shallow as to be drawn to a weak-minded, contemptible villein better suited to walk behind an ox plowing fields than dare to lift his eyes to a queen? Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here.
If a farmer ploughing his field encounters a boulder, he unharnesses his oxen from the plough and rips the boulder from the ground and moves it aside.
So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1.
They spread the compost before plowing in the spring.
Festivities at Christmas, Easter, and May Day, at the end of ploughing and the completion of harvest, relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor.
But as the roots are very spreading it is important to stir the soil well but slightly and avoid deep plowing, for it is well known that through accidental injury to the roots the various "armillaria" enter the trees to develop the "pourridié" or "pus disease", or "circle disease". Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
The use of horses for ploughing still prevails among the poorer farmers.
After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
He watched the liner ploughing the foam.
The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway.
Ploughing was his forte and he loved to sow and plant the crops, watch them grow and mature, and harvest them at the back-end.
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.
Great, and while the DOJ is replowing old ground, let's also readdress the issue of when Speaker Pelosi and the Select Committee on Intelligence were briefed on the interrogation methods. Republican calls Holder decision 'bulls**t'
Further evidence of former agricultural practice in this category of earthwork includes lynchets and ridge and furrow, both resulting from ploughing.
After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
Chisel plowing or disking usually chops residue finely enough for conventional drills to be effective.
In soft snow on a level surface like the river bed or through the Flat country, generally, the toboggan is much the more convenient vehicle, for it rides over the snow instead of ploughing through it, but on hard snow anywhere or on grades the toboggan is a nuisance. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
The farmer turned up a human skull while ploughing the field.
Since his wife's death he has been ploughing a lonely furrow.
He is also aware of the need to sow grass seed to ensure a choice of area for lea ploughing next year.
Farming practice in recent years has moved to autumn ploughing and early sowing of oil-seed rape and winter wheat.
As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites.
They were ploughing a lonely furrow.
One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles.
After having purchased buffaloes and bulls, the farm is slowly becoming self-reliant with manuring, ploughing and transport of agricultural goods being done by my hired workers.
Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring.
Pioneer women wore bonnets and gloves to keep their skin white while plowing the fields.
He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand.
He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand.
We spend most of March ploughing.
[27] The Armenians use, in ploughing, a kind of plough which is drawn by from five to ten pairs of buffaloes or oxen. Armenian Literature
We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock.
He was first alerted to the remains when a farmer began ploughing up pieces of fuselage and aircraft machinery.
As I learned later, Miss Nightingale herself hated all the ‘lady with the lamp’ guff and was much happier ploughing through volumes of public health statistics or firing sharp letters off to cabinet ministers.
‘Hey guys,’ she said to all of them, snowplowing to a stop and doing the group's handshake with Sergio and Peter.
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.
My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades.
After the evaporation of the steaming vapour of spring has gone forward, and the farmer has operated in the way of ploughing and sowing, on whatever ready-prepared land he may have for the purpose, the first dry "spell" is looked forward to most anxiously to burn off the land which has been chopped during the winter – it is bad policy, however, to depend for the whole crop on this Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
The Department of Agriculture and Food will also have information booths at its stand at the National Ploughing Championships at the end of the month near Tullow in Co Carlow.
In ancient vineyards all work was done by man, which consisted of ploughing, pruning, trimming, desuckering, layering, and harvesting.
The dearth of committed plowmen back home means "we usually finish last or next to last," says Dick Pedersen, an Iowa banker who represents the U.S. on the World Plowing Organization's governing board. In This Field of Dreams, the Gold
The soldiers kept ploughing ahead in spite of the difficulties.
There were tractors ploughing the soil, many of the shrubs had been uprooted and it was buzzing with activity.
Senate Republicans, who fear that the lines produced by a commission would make it harder for them to sustain their slender majority in coming years, are plowing ahead with their own maps, floating the idea of tacking on a 63rd seat in Republican-friendly territory. Deal Sought on Districts
Given the benefits of less fertiliser, liming and ploughing costs and better crop yields it is little wonder.
Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
Eastman is an archaeologically rich site with medieval strip lynchet field systems created by ploughing.
Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade. The Guardian World News
As a bona fide member of the Baby Boomers, I revelled in plowing new territory in terms of parenting, working, sistering and changing the world. » Taking a Leap Strocel.com
Progress of job of equipment spring ploughing is greater, save area ratio of of all kinds order to go up completely year increase 58% , 33% what occupy crop to grow an area.
Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
April is ploughing time for the Flemish farmers and the brown furrowed fields dominate the landscape.
They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.
Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles.
The pulverization of drained land may be produced, partly by deep, or subsoil plowing, which is always necessary to perfect the object of thorough-draining; but it is much aided, in stiff clays, also, by the shrinkage of the soil by drying. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
It's loosely based on the parable of the sower, so we have three images, a man ploughing a field, a man sowing seed and a man reaping a harvest.
How could they have resisted another of his jaunty, trademark yarns, combining plot twists and utter fatuity in a way that just keeps you ploughing on, despite your better nature and the certainty that virtually any other activity would be a better use of these precious hours of life? The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
In imagination I can see your great ship, with all its portholes aglare, ploughing across the darkness to America. Carry On Letters in War-Time
The most epidemiological important are reservoirs, such as some marsupials, edentates and rodents, because of their habits and favorable circumstantial local conditions, as disforesting, weeding and plowing, are capable to approximate to humans and play a significant role in linking the sylvatic and domestic cycles of the parasite.
Before long teams were ploughing the rich lands of Yorkshire.
It then smashed head on into a tree, breaking it in half, before ploughing into some railings.
There is a lot of preparation involved in competing in ploughing contests.
… “There is a huge imbalance between the carbon lost by plowing up a hectare [2.47 acres] of forest or grassland from the benefit you get from biofuels.” Global Warming and the Minefield of Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Terroir of thin clays with a large capacity of exchange, and the good thing is also that the soil there as never been turned over by super-deep plowing (like many farmers did in the 60s '), which means that the multi-layer sub-soil complete with its minerals and complex microbian life has never been disturbed. Wine Tasting, Vineyards, in France
Whether these lynchets were constructed deliberately or came about as a result of ploughing is still not certain.
Billy worked for three days, and while insisting that he was doing very well, he freely admitted that there was more in plowing than he had thought. CHAPTER IV
The country work consists of harvesting and plowing, raising cattle, chickens, horses, and oxen.
Ploughing through the deep snow in my high boots,I finally reached the farmhouse.
Stones needed to be lifted after the spring plowing, ditches cleared, walls mended, the raspberries picked, the tatties harvested. A Small Death in the Great Glen
Soils that were tilled by oxen for centuries have responded with increased yields from tractor-powered plowing.
Since his wife's death, he has been plowing a lonely furrow.
While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy.
We spend most of March ploughing.
My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow.
With a large population of working Dakotas still ploughing faithfully on, the marketplace for turbo conversions has great potential.
Iron ploughs engineered to reduce soil resistance replaced clumsy wooden ones, increasing ploughing productivity.
‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed.
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.
What is advanced as the main advantage of trench-ploughing in the first passage -- that it can be safely done without previous draining, is in the second wholly discarded by the advice, _never to trench-plough without previous draining_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
During the early stages of project formulation, three main treatments were selected for investigation, namely: mouldboard ploughing, ripping into bare ground and no-till tied ridging. 1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa.
But within his own family Johnny can expect strong competition as son Eamon, winner of gold medal in the lea ploughing at the 1999 World Championships at Pomacle near Reims, France, is among those seeking the title.
The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
The most promising development has been the arge-scale adoption of conservation tillage, which increases infiltration of rain into the soil compared to conventional ploughing. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 3
They were used only for the first ploughing, in breaking up the wild sod woven into a tough mass, chiefly by the cordlike roots of perennial grasses, reinforced by the tap-roots of oak and hickory bushes, called "grubs," some of which were more than a century old and four or five inches in diameter. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
The conference's 45,000 delegates are also plowing through other resources.
He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event.
Ploughing through the deep snow in my high boots,I finally reached the farmhouse.
Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields' August 8th, 2007
You'll see them sideslipping and snowplowing, while moving at a speed so slow it's painful to watch.
They would hurry away from their meagre garden plots and stony fields, to begin plowing and sowing. Further Adventures of Nils
Bill Stowe, director of the city's Department of Public Works, said officials wanted to avoid costly replowing efforts after parked cars are moved. New Shovel-Ready Project
Ploughing through the deep snow in my high boots,I finally reached the farmhouse.
I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’
He had stumbled around in her basement under a 25-watt bulb, plowing through marked boxes.
The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
The report said that "cellulosic" species - such as switchgrass - are a better option for curbing emissions than corn because they don't require annual replowing and planting. Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
These represent the headlands separating bundles of strips within the open fields, where animals turned while ploughing.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
These include the preparation of new fields, preparing existing fields, ploughing, planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, and storing the grain.
Might this surge in "seignorage" - the profits earned first by medieval kings for issuing money, and now by the private banks for issuing debt - come to overwhelm the poor serfs ploughing the fields and trying to decorate their newly-built starter homes carpets and curtains included? Sustainable Economics?
Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district.
As a result, the yield potentials of such soils are usually higher under no-till or ridge tillage than under moldboard plowing.
Now that the ploughing match is over and the weather holding up many farmers in the parish are ploughing and reseeding areas from two to ten acres.
Austria's plowing association limits plowmen to three world championship appearances. In This Field of Dreams, the Gold
I did all this in the school holidays, as well as ploughing, combining and seed drilling, to earn the money to go into business.
As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this.
The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway.
While rock-plowing proved beneficial for planted crops, it also proved exceedingly beneficial for non-native plant species.
Without the seasonal harvesting, plowing and planting, a mature sod of grasses and clovers would cover the earth and enable the soil to hold moisture better.
The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock — a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations.
Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring.
The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through miasma.
My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow.
‘There are ferns on every farm and farmers are ploughing them up every day,’ he declared.
Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations.
Narrowly averting collision with unlighted harbor-boats, bumping at times over sandy shoals, plowing through grass-grown mud-flats and skirting dangerous reefs with only the smallest margin of safety, they came at last to the jettied outlet of El Diablo
But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords.
On a previous visit, I ran into housewives plowing through cages of puppies and kittens to pick a particularly tasty-looking one for the stewpot. China's Cooking Crossroads
I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it.
From the first three years 'results it would appear that, in the dry region, tied ridging will meet the criterion of equal or improved yield levels compared to mouldboard ploughing only if existing management practices, in particular with respect to timely planting and first weeding, are improved. 1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa.
You can call it plowing new ground, but I think the more salient point is that courts haven’t considered this particular question previously, and a ruling that compulsory purchases goes too far when imposed on commercially inactive individuals, wouldn’t conflict with any previous decision. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drawing Lines in the Commerce Clause Debate on Health Care Reform
After 20+ years, I still shudder when I recall plowing through the 1400 typewritten pages unbound of course of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, taking copious notes. Synopsis Flopsis
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.
The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
Part of it will be in reforestation, part of it will be in stabilizing the land by the right kind of crop, part in contour ploughing. Are We Using Canada's Wealth Aright?
The in-kind payments included cords of wood, hauling hay, a hat, plowing, shoemaking, as well as wheat, flour, corn, and coffee.
We are doing a huge amount of moldboard plowing and would really like to replace some of these passes with something that builds rather than damages the soil.
a young hand at plowing
Conservation or reduced tillage systems do not involve moldboard plowing and maintain some previous crop residue on the soil surface.
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.
One final thing that has to be mentioned ... if plesiosaurs and/or ichthyosaurs and/or thalattosuchians really were in the habit of ploughing through sediment in quest of infaunal prey, how were they finding these animals? ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Sometimes during war the seignior's wife and daughters were reduced to plowing in the fields and laboring with the women servants at the harvest; but ordinarily the life at the seigniory was a life of petty grandeur, with such style as the backwoods afforded. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

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