By-the-by, the ploughboyscall the fieldfares `velts.
The inscription is barely legible, worn away by the ironshod heels of generations of ploughboys kicking against it in their rude play, and where they have not chipped it, filled with lichen.
It is found by the small slender stalk it sends up, and insignificant white flower, and lies a few inches below the surface: the ploughboys think much of it, and it seems just possible that cultivation might improve it.
And then what did they do but drill the ploughboys on the Green, to get them ready to fight the French, and teach them the goose-step!
However, that came to an end at last, for Bony was sent to St. Helena, and the ploughboys were sent back to the plough.
These peasant lads and awkward ploughboys became in a few weeks trustworthy and valiant soldiers.
The ploughboys search for pyrites, and call them thunderbolts.
However, that came to an end at last; for Bony was sent to St. Helena, and the ploughboys were sent back to the plough.
Some of the ploughboys and carters' lads seem scarcely fit to be put in charge of the huge cart-horses who obey their shouted orders, their heads being but a little way above the shafts--mere infants to look at.
The ploughboys know this, and make whistles out of such branches, as they do also from the willow, and even the sycamore in the season when the sap comes up in its flood-tide.
All the men and boys and children, all the shepherds and ploughboys for miles and miles, who had gathered together, set up a shout.
The ploughboys know this, and make whistles out of such branches, as they do also from the willow, and even the sycamore in the season when the sap comes up in its floodtide.
The ploughboys know it, and the wayside children, the mower and those who linger in fields, but few else.
Ploughboys used to throw flints at it, as if the sound of the stone striking the tree assured them that it was really material.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
