Leftover pasta, vegetable and beef stir fry, ploughman is a favourite (meat, cheese, hard boiled egg, chutney & bread). From Wordnik.com. [Lunch Wars « Bored Mommy] Reference
Your ploughman was a little too greedy for land, it seems. From Wordnik.com. [The Potter's Field]
One of the most popular lunches in Great Britain is called a ploughman's lunch. From Wordnik.com. [Hell in a Handbasket] Reference
The artisan depends on his labour alone, he is a free man while the ploughman is a slave; for the latter depends on his field where the crops may be destroyed by others. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
"When one man is a peer and another a ploughman, that is an accident. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
‘When one man is a peer and another a ploughman, that is an accident. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
The shepherd called the ploughman to the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
The ploughman was a pious man, and attended the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
And, save where up their sides the ploughman creeps. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
The ploughman his weary way plods homeward. and so on. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The picture was found again in 1160 by a ploughman; the. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
A ploughman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
A graphic picture of a poor ploughman and his family is given in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Wyvis the ploughman was accidentally killed, and Mary's child, named. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
The Ayrshire ploughman and the Bedford tinker were made of other stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Now he was a ploughman (spring), now a fisherman (summer), now a reaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
The ploughman is guiding the plough, so as to keep the furrows straight. From Wordnik.com. [A Horse Book] Reference
"Oh, it is a clock that a gentleman made me a present of," said the ploughman. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
"A strain inherited from my ploughman father, I suppose," said Wyvis, rather grimly. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
It is ridiculous that an orange-girl should play the piano, and a ploughman paint a picture. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891] Reference
The ploughman ploughed the fields, others sowed and the miners went to their daily tasks as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Lord Rosebery and by a man from White chapel or an uneducated ploughman, is not the same to the listener. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
Are we not play-acting half our lives once we get a little beyond the stage of the ploughman and the herd?. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
He sees not the wearied ploughman, caring for nought but to forget his toils in the sweet oblivion of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
The writer of that song was, like Caedmon long ago, a son of the soil, he, too, was a "heaven-taught ploughman.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
An English ploughman becomes necessary; the English ploughman accordingly comes, but shortly becomes miserable amongst. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Without ploughman you preacher, and then you dissolve in hollenshead's tear-jerkers, and it was of Denmark you flumed. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Squire, and that great fat farmer, Mr. Bullock the church-warden, as boldly as at Hodge the ploughman, and Scrub the hedger. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Some of the variations make us think more of the ploughman, others more of the plodding, and still others more of the weariness. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
What a pleasure it is to watch a good expert workman, be he carpenter, bricklayer, ploughman, blacksmith, or only an Irish navvy. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
He is of Scotch parentage; and who knows but he may be akin to the ploughman-poet whose "arrowy songs still sing in our morning air"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Cheese and onions have always worked for me, either in the most basic sub-ploughman's type sandwich, a quiche or in deeply autumnal soup. From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Slater's onion tart recipe] Reference
It is assumed as a common and proper thing to employ a shepherd or a ploughman in serving his master at table -- a practice entirely unknown among us. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
A ploughman or fisherman, for example, may thrive on diet which will inevitably produce disease in the system of one whose work confines him to the house for the most of his time. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
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