"Asavah liked the plowshare, and the extra nails you sent.". From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
Is worthy of the plowshare and the deep flow of my virility. From Wordnik.com. [Leopold Sedar Senghor] Reference
` No plowshare has touched the earth for years, maybe centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
The busy plowshare had turned up the deep graves of departed passions. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
America's conquests are made with the plowshare, Russia's with the sword. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down] Reference
An old-style blacksmith made a plowshare or a sword from beginning to end. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: June 2005 Archives] Reference
Americas conquests are made with the plowshare, Russias with the sword. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)] Reference
The plowshare is more rapidly worn out than the tip of the ridger (table F 4). From Wordnik.com. [1. Overview] Reference
LIEBERMAN: Well, there is no -- this requires both the sword and the plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2004] Reference
Hadn't he crawled into the forgefire and turned an iron plowshare to living gold?. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
Maternal convictions: A mother beats a missile into a plowshare by Michele Naar-Obed. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Test : The Latest Twist in the Mumia Case] Reference
This was impossible until the introduction of the iron, wheeled plowshare, with moldboard. From Wordnik.com. [F. Europe, 461-1500] Reference
My father gathered his big chin, flat like a plowshare, into the trough of his bronze hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
The light of a match revealed the tyrant roosting glumly on the summit of a ruined plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration] Reference
Because of the high abrasion - a plowshare lasts one season - severe problems are encountered. From Wordnik.com. [1. Overview] Reference
Only then did he sidle forward and gingerly lay his fingertips on and under the golden plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
The moldboard section is curved so that it turns over the soil slice that is cut by the plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Ignoring Eisenhower's prescient warning, his successors chose the sword over the plowshare repeatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Miscreants, Murderers, and Malefactors:] Reference
“Michel,” said Barbicane, “can you use a forge without a hammer, or a plow without a plowshare?”. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
The earth herself, without compulsion, untouched by hoe or plowshare of herself gave all things needful. From Wordnik.com. ["The real problem with literary types is..."] Reference
It is the grand plowshare that turns up the old soil of error and despotism and reveals the hidden treasures of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
You should, without hesitation, pound your typewriter into a plowshare, your paper into fertilizer, and enter agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [New Form Rejection slips] Reference
For several days his voracious plowshare had been turning over the prairie in long ribbons of swath like the pages of a book. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
These mills produce wire, shafting, springs, plowshare, rake and harrow teeth and other kinds of agricultural implement steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
In 1819 Jethro Wood (17741834) had developed a cast iron plow; and John Lane had introduced a steel-blade plowshare in 1833. From Wordnik.com. [d. Agricultural Production and Food Technology] Reference
Each summer the Wise and huntresses bought axes, arrowheads, knives both long and short, and even the occasional iron plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
There can scarcely be a new theory devised, for the human mind has long since gone over the whole ground with plowshare and rake. From Wordnik.com. [Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn] Reference
It has been stated in a German periodical that traces of the plowshare have been distinguished in the fields adjoining this villa. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There was a reason why we created the iron plowshare. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Property, industry, social order, had been torn up by the plowshare of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
The day was clear and mild, and the soil, freshly cleft by the plowshare, sent up. From Wordnik.com. [La mare au diable. English] Reference
The Remington rifle runs back the frontier line; the plowshare holds the land at last. From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
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