It's snowing again in the New England, and of course the plowman is on his own timetable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
My plowman was a young man -- a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
I had a visiting friend who was a Montana plowman. From Wordnik.com. [Vineyard Chill] Reference
Businessmen they drink my wine, plowman dig my earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeff Healey Band Lyrics] Reference
Chaucer gives this good man a brother who is a plowman. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Singing of that "bold plowman of the wave" he proceeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
Most of the men are muscular, and have large plowman hands. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The handles enable the plowman to control the plow when working. From Wordnik.com. [3.1 Cattle harness] Reference
It was to this place that the plowman was bending his homeward way. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Hayes with the fighting plowman mentioned in Scottish history, who at. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
All the fine ladies and gentlemen were eager to see the plowman poet. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
On the following morning the preacher-plowman was afield at break of day. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah 28.] Reference
The first is its practical meaning, what the book calls, 'the thing the plowman sees.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
The man's furrows went this way and that and were so uneven that no self-respecting plowman would have owned them. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
His amber hair betrayed no gray yet, and if someone didn't know what to look for, he could be mistaken for a plowman. From Wordnik.com. [Oathblood]
A good plowman saves money on fuel by steering straight and moving fast and boosts yields by digging to the right depth. From Wordnik.com. [In This Field of Dreams, the Gold] Reference
He was happy, like a plowman who turns furrows in a field without stones, or a fisherman who sets his nets for known returns. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
In this vein, the Rabbis cite the popular saying: “Before a wine drinker, set wine, before a plowman, set a basket of roots.”. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Samson's Life: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
They were the words of Bobby Burns, the words of a Scottish plowman that are as appropriate today as they were when he wrote them. From Wordnik.com. [A Look Behind The Iron Curtain] Reference
Earth will take the plowman in her arms at last and let him sleep deeper than the barley seed, but my mother had no embrace for me. From Wordnik.com. ['Lavinia'] Reference
The plowman poet spoke not only to his fellow commoners but also the intellectuals of Edinburgh and many Scottish lords of the manors. From Wordnik.com. [robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
"Hosanna" for Francis, and not a plowman nor tiller of the soil bethought himself that he had fully paid for the snack and sup that night. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
As Paulson, the head plowman, complained privily to. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
Poor old Whinnie, I'm afraid, is more a putterer than a plowman. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
The one I have first shown you is of a plowman plowing at evening. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
The plowman is no longer content to keep his eye forever on the furrow. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters in Rural Progress] Reference
Yes, he had seized her, had crushed her madly in the embrace of his plowman arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
In a ring that was cleared by an athletic plowman the fiddler-postman of Newlands, Tom o '. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
If you are a dextrous plowman, you can drive your plow any number of times along the simple curve. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
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