There are things that every ploughboy knows to-day which were hidden from Plato and Caesar and Dante, but the ploughboy is not wiser than they.
The former ploughboy was of humble origin, but his heart and his character had developed with his fortunes; he understood his own worth.
At twenty Lacheneur was only a poor ploughboyin the service of the Sairmeuse family.
The merry ploughboy cheers his team, Wi' joy the tentie seedsman stalks, But life to me's a weary dream, A dream of ane that never wauks.
He watched the lark sing, sing, sing, up into the sky, and then he thought he would go and find his nest, as he remembered the ploughboy had told him larks made their nests on the ground among the corn.
Then she took him by the hand, And she row’d him to the land, Where she wed the simple Ploughboy back from sea.
And they made of him a tar, To be slain in cruel war; Of the simple Ploughboy singing on the lea.
They have press’d him to the fleet, Sent him tossing on the deep, Who is but a simple Ploughboy from the lea.
If a prince here chooses to behave like a ploughboy, he is right where the ploughboy would be wrong.
You have our English standard of manners in your mind, manners which range from a ploughboy to a king, and you seem to take it for granted that these are also subscribed to in other countries.
The ploughboy understood them very well, for to have only a hunch of bread and little or no cheese was often his own case.
The maiden sore did grieve, And without a word of leave From her father's house she fled secretly, In male attire dress'd With a star upon her breast, All to seek her simpleploughboy on the sea.
They have press'd him to the fleet, Sent him tossing on the deep, Who is but a simple ploughboy from the lea.
And they made of him a tar, To be slain in cruel war, Of the simple ploughboy singing on the lea.
Then she pulled out a store Of five hundred crowns and more And she strewed them on the deck, did she; Then she took him by the hand, And she rowed him to the land, Where she wed the simple ploughboy back from sea.
For on the following day a ploughboy came to inform them that they were wanted up at the farm for a cow in a hopeless condition.
If he had been a fisherman or a ploughboyit would not have mattered, and she would not have cared.
Sometimes she wished that some homely fisherman or ignorant ploughboyhad rescued her.
The ploughboy and Nathan, going out early to work, had heard low, rustling footsteps in the cow-shed as they opened the door.
The rough servant-girl and the ploughboy had both been to her door, and given her notice that they were going to leave; but she had not asked them for any reason.
Mr Broughton cross-examined this witness at great length, and with his accustomed shrewdness--but in vain, the ploughboy was certain the prisoner was the man.
Though my disguise was good, I fear I made but an indifferent bad ploughboywhen walking, and found a difficulty in dealing with my hands, not knowing how ploughboys are wont to carry them.
There had been a certain pride in his heart as he taught these lessons, wrong though it might be that there should be a Marquis and a ploughboy so far reversed by the injustice of Fate.
Why should there be a ploughboy unable to open his mouth because of his infirmity, and a Marquis with his own voice very resonant in the House of Lords, and a deputy voice dependent on him in the House of Commons?
The upshot was, that old Jacobson stood to his word, and declined to make Dick Mitchel a ploughboy yet awhile.
Such a thing as keeping a ploughboy at home for a holiday, had never entered her imagination.
Why, Tommy, I protest you have made yourself a perfect fright, and you look more like a ploughboy than a young gentleman.
I say there is not a ploughboy who treads the heaviest clay in England, who does not feel practically his condition improved within the last three years--and he knows the reason why.
In every sense they are birds of passage: any ploughboy will tell you so.
He was born in a village in the Vale of Aylesbury, and began work as a ploughboy on a very big farm.
So there lay our clerk, as though he were peering down into the well, till at dawn of day the ploughboy came running up to draw water.
But an old fox is hard to hunt,' said the lad, and so his master must say and do all that his ploughboy wished.
This is sung from one end of England to another, and always to the same very rude melody in a Gregorian tone, that shows it has expressed the sentiments of the ploughboy for at least two hundred years.
Beside the road we saw a ploughboy straddle whistling on a stile, and he had the merit of being not only a ploughboy but a Gainsborough.
Her name is Mary; I heard a ploughboy say "Mary" to her.
The tunes whistled by the ploughboy as he goes down the road to his work in the dawn were not written for him.
A sturdy ploughboy comes up with a piece of iron on his shoulder; it does not look large, but it is as much as he can carry.
One edge of it is polished by the friction of the earth through which it has been forced; it has to be straightened, or repaired, and the ploughboy waits while it is done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughboy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
