Whether the whistling rustic tends his plough Within thy hearing, or thou liest now Buried in some deep dungeon's earless den; O miserable chieftain!
The country hereabouts is under excellent cultivation, though the awkward plough introduced by the Spaniards centuries ago still does service here.
And perhaps the people there have forgotten all about the place, now that a whole Generation has passed away, and improved Farming has passed the Plough over the Ground.
A Carucate was as much arable land as could be cultivated by one plough in a year, with sufficient meadow and pasture for the team.
They do not plant out their rice, nor use the plough in cultivating it.
They have settled in the plains, and taken to plough cultivation, in Nowgong and Kamrup, and have also established recent settlements of the same kind north of the Brahmaputra in Darrang.
The Mikirs who settled in the plains of Nowgong and took toplough cultivation are called Dumrali by the Mikirs and Tholua by the Assamese.
Only house-tax is paid, except by Mikirs cultivating land with the plough in the submontane tracts, who are treated in all respects like other Assamese raiyats.
Brother, the ploughdoes not pass over the soil in vain, nor care over the human heart.
But not theplough of care: rich, famous, Ellinor his wife, and no son!
New crops change the character of the land; and the plough must go deep indeed before it stirs up the mother-stone.
The careful tiller should note that all soils whatever which lie on declivities having a slope of more than one foot in thirty inevitably and rapidly waste when subject to plough tillage.
If need were he could take his share in the hardest field labour, and plough a straight furrow, or mow a heavy crop of grass from dawn till sunset without breaking his fast.
It consisted of a gang of women stripping themselves perfectly naked, and going out by night to drag the plough across a field.
The plough used was heavy and made first of wood and later of iron.
Efforts were made to keep laborers at the plough and cart rather than learn a craft or entering and being educated by the church.
This work was primarily to gather the harvest and to plough with oxen and to sow in autumn and Lent.
A debtors' plough cattle or sheep cannot be taken to satisfy a debt.
It had a mould-board which caught the soil stirred by the plough blade and threw it into a ridge.
Children who labored at the ploughand cart or other agriculture shall continue in that labor and may not go into a craft.
And since that blessed day I've never known the pinch: I plough a broad townland, And dig a river-inch; And on my hearth the fire is bright For all that walk by day or night.
Beauty and peace I sing-- The fire on the open hearth, The cailleach spinning at her wheel, The ploughin the broken earth.
Our staunch good friend is he; And for the ploughshare and the plough To him our praise shall be.
With her it is the plough where it may be and the sword where it must.
Instead of taking the trouble toplough and sow, you expect to get a harvest by praying to an inscrutable Being.
His style of walk is caused by following the plough in early childhood, when the weak limbs find it a hard labour to pull the heavy nailed boots from the thick clay soil.
They dared not ploughor sow except in the way that he approved.
It might be roughly estimated that England now contains a third more meadow land than in the early part of the present century, notwithstanding the attempt to plough up the downs.
There is a chaff-cutter from an English original; and a model of the nonsensical plough to go without horses.
It was not kings and captains who first set men to the plough and a settled life.
They could 'plough lanes' in infantry, but they could not easily smash and scatter it if it was sturdy and well drilled.
They were increasing and multiplying through these centuries of peace, and as they increased and multiplied, they spread steadily with house and plough wherever the soil permitted.
You are to plough your land with oxen, and not to oblige other animals to come under the same yoke with them; but to till your land with those beasts that are of the same kind with each other.
But Cain was not only very wicked in other respects, but was wholly intent upon getting; and he first contrived to plough the ground.
I had thought it the right way to keep my eyes fixed upon the plough until his practice showed me that I had pursued the wrong course.
But the principle has not been changed, and the gang-plough is but a multifold forefinger.
I'm all the while in quest of stakes and white rags to place at the other side of the field to direct the progress of the lads and lasses in a straight course, and raise their eyes away from the plough that they happen to be using.
The field is not greatly esteemed of the town, not being put to the plough nor affording firewood, but breeding all manner of wild seeds that go down in the irrigating ditches to come up as weeds in the gardens and grass plots.
He took the peasant from the plough and the shepherd from his flock; and the fisherman, who in the morning had gone cheerily to set his nets in the waters of the Hamun, in the evening lay groaning in his hut with a burning fever.
But it had to plough its way through stony ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
