Only by the ploughshare is the earth cut in furrows; but that this may be, other parts of the plough are necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference

It's primary meaning is 'ploughshare' and its secondary meaning is precisely 'penis' or 'membrum virile' in VictorianSpeak, if you may.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-09-01] Reference

As our ploughshare is the Sabre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference

It is so named from its resemblance to a ploughshare.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

To the loom and the ploughshare, the sea and the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

But no; she takes up a broken ploughshare and escapes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference

Though the storm's ploughshare spend its utmost skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

They must be mended, the ploughshare must be replaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

That ploughshare, O sire, looked resplendent on his car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

Hid from grazing kine, by ploughshare never y-broken, (40).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

Must -- that word is a ploughshare which suits only loose soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference

One more sword turned into a ploughshare by private endeavour!.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

He made one ploughshare immediately, and the others afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Daniel] Reference

The ploughshare cuts a strip of soil 10 to 15 centimetres thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

And the splendid ploughshare glides along beneath the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Autumn Star] Reference

The ploughshare of rebellion has gone through the land beam-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

The plough consists of a ploughshare, a mouldboard and two handles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

The plough consists of a ploughshare, a mouldboard and two handles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

A plough is made up of a ploughshare, a mouldboard and two handles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Philistines six hundred men with a ploughshare: and he also defended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference

Burns burst forth in never-dying song while guiding the ploughshare.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

O fearful ploughshare, tearing thy way through so many bleeding hearts!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

Though the ploughshare cut through the flowers of life to its fountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference

Smoothly the ploughshare runs through the soil, as a keel through the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

The ploughshare has struck against a rock and grits, denting its edge in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

On this day all the men in the village go to his shrine taking a measure of rice and a ploughshare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

He figuratively converts his ploughshare into a sword, although the uses of that weapon are unknown to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boer in Peace and War] Reference

We have seen regional belligerence turned, with shades of the Atlantic Charter, into ploughshare diplomacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London] Reference

Auruncans and Rutulians sow on it, work the stiff hills with the ploughshare, and pasture them where they are roughest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

And Earth, as in Hesiod, “untouched by the hoe and unwounded by the ploughshare,” gave food freely to her children.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIMITIVISM] Reference

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

It takes to the ploughshare more kindly than to the sabre, and likes to manage a steam engine better than a six-gun battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

I hadn't the faintest notion what sort of thing a ploughshare was, but I'd clever people to help me, and so it was all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference

So when he had finished the morning's ploughing he pulled the iron point of the ploughshare out of its socket and snapped it in two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

In every class the ground is being turned by the ploughshare of Discontent; everywhere we can sow the seed broadcast with both hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

Tiber, and Numicus 'sacred shore, and whose ploughshare goes up and down on the Rutulian hills and the Circaean headland, over whose fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

It is when afflictions rend the heart, as a ploughshare tears up the ground, that the elements of life long offered are at length received.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference