It is a northern animal, nocturnal, and rarely seen, but not uncommon; they are frequently found in ploughed grasslands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

The forvalaka ploughed into Gota, tipping the table on which she had been laid out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiers Live]

Exactly in the centre a groove is "ploughed" to the depth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [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 and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

"ploughed" have to take an oath not to bring "malum vel damnum" upon the examiners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Medieval University] Reference

"ploughed" out deeply to receive a canvas on a stretcher, on which a characteristic scene is painted.    From Wordnik.com.  [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 and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

"I wonder if he's got a good wide fire strip ploughed?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

Oh dear, I seem to have ploughed into a branch of Snappy Snaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Michael? Taxi for you] Reference

Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 38: Micheas The Challoner Revision] Reference

Your hearts have been ploughed and harrowed and are now frozen up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

He had not gone far before he came to a ploughed field and there sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference

Four of the destroyers surrounded us as we ploughed through the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

 And then he ploughed through my body with all the vehemence of wounded pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourteen Days In November] Reference

For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference

He revolved twice in the air, and then his face ploughed heavily into the pavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

"Don't do that," his mother said with furrows of concern ploughed across her forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pscooter and Pskipper Get Psychedelic in Pseattle] Reference

When he had ploughed, the man went back to his cart and unloaded another farm implement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

He had pushed through heavy sand and ploughed over deep holes regardless of his machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

The Masirah ferry cast off after sunset and ploughed across the strait under a full moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oman's desert island] Reference

"Grandpap's jest ploughed that thar field to put in his winter wheat," objected Pendrilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

And he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference

The gunboats, however, ploughed their way through without other damage than to their appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

They ploughed their way through mud and Germans, with the fire of five machine guns peppering them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

The fact that a tree is put in a place that is not ploughed doesn't mean that it is beyond all care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

So Archie ploughed the field from daylight till dark, with a half hour at noon for a hurried dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

Its vast mountainous head ploughed up the waves like a ship's cutwater, piling high the foam and spray before it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Now Ulf had ploughed the sea so much in his youth that he was delighted to plough the land for the rest of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference

Osirian -- that is, the happy dead -- ploughed, sowed, reaped, and threshed, as on earth -- a singular want of fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

So he ploughed through the last five months of polling he did for The Economist in search of the Wal-Mart women trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting On Wal-Mart Women] Reference

In the farmyard the actress feels the soft air form the south and the sweet rot smell of fields newly ploughed and dressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference

Their rhetoric establishes an implicit standard that every dollar saved in Medicare must be ploughed back into the program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Pollack: Double Count of Irony in Republican Arguments About Medicare] Reference

She was walking with a cane, and had on a miraculous black silk, the seams of which were like the ridges of a ploughed field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

They gained the herbless ploughed field and took their station in its center just as the flames darted round on each side of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

He pled for a return to nature, to country-side, thatched cottages, ploughed fields, flocks, harvests, vintages and rustic holidays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference

How his massa flog him, 'cause he couldn't wuck no more, till de blood run down his back, an 'it wus a ridged like de ploughed groun'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

While the entire sidewalk was ploughed up in order to make room for fiber-optic cable, "they didn't touch my strip," Ms. Dorritie says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening's Final Frontier: the 'Hellstrip'] Reference

Take this away, or reduce it, and the millions of pounds ploughed into improving access to university for the poor could have been in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuition fees hike will spell disaster for universities, coalition warned] Reference