What is the principal thing to be attended to in ploughing, Mr. Plumfield?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

The ploughing is a figure of scourging, which most severe physical infliction aptly represents all kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Indeed, the sowing is on the top of the ground and the so-called ploughing or scratching in with a crooked stick comes after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern American Prose Selections] Reference

Are they raised for farm work such as ploughing, and for transport?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Lesotho is experiencing its worst drought with summer agricultural activities such as ploughing for maize and sorghum being held back.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"There is one kind of ploughing," said Rufus biting his lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

The digging and the ploughing might be a good thing for more than me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoebe, Junior] Reference

The animal then stopped 'ploughing' and pulled its jaw/snout straight out.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

"There is one kind of ploughing," said Rufus biting his lip, "which Winthrop doesn't understand at all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

Fire is lighted here, as in all Melanesia, by "ploughing," a small stick being rubbed lengthwise in a larger one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference

'ploughing' behaviour they've recently been shown to practise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

In ploughing - for corn is goodliest; from no field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

And I like to see the men ploughing and working the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

The man was for two hours ploughing the little strip of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

In the season ploughing usually starts at 7.30 a.m. and goes on until.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference

"Caradoc," which was ploughing its way through the sunny sea with its sad burden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

Pigey came ploughing up the mud alongside of us, followed by that sucker-mouthed Aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

I don't think he at all relished the work he had to do, ploughing with oxen all day, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference

Ivan also likes to read and is currently ploughing his way through Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A working life: The theatre director] Reference

Then his face turned pale with anger, and he left his ploughing and hastened off to his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

He is wide-awake on the far-off field where the isolated missionary is ploughing his lonely furrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Belle to meet us, smiling to Margaret, and her eyes wandering to where her son was at the ploughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

If the land is not fallowed and the seed sown immediately after ploughing, the cost is correspondingly less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference

Before June had set in, the two ships were ploughing their way up the west coast of Greenland in heavy snowstorms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

"But, cold summers came, and the corn was all cut off, giving nobody good for the labor of ploughing and planting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference

The great pair of draught horses were ploughing through the drifts and the three men were whooping loudly beside them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

Plough it early in the autumn and, if a load of well-rotted manure is available, spread it on the land before ploughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

That officer looked around, and signalled to a British destroyer -- another of the warships ploughing the waters of the North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

When the sun went down she stopped ploughing and went home to a little cottage which was hidden among some bushes in a field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Forty years, she'd been there, ploughing through the muddy swamp of secretarial gumph such a prestigious organisation demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomatoes] Reference

But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference

But the mutineers were now scarcely twenty yards from the vessel, towards which they were ploughing their way with unabated speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

More frequently than was agreeable, a shot would come ploughing up the ground and raising clouds of dust, or a shell whizz above us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

As Lemminkainen was ploughing his fields one day, he heard the noise of sledges as if a vast number of people were on their way past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference