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Example sentences for "ploughed"

Lexicographically close words:
plotting; plottings; plough; ploughboy; ploughboys; ploughing; ploughings; ploughland; ploughlands; ploughman
  1. Once the evil spirit Lempo ploughed it, but it has never been done since.

  2. There were serpents of every sort, creeping and crawling over one another, and hissing horribly, but Ilmarinen cast a spell over them, and ploughed the field, so that all the snakes were buried in the furrows.

  3. Then Louhi said to him: 'The maiden is not ready to receive thee, and thou may not woo her before thou hast ploughed the field of hissing serpents.

  4. But it ploughed up fields of barley and the richest meadows, so Ilmarinen threw it back into the furnace.

  5. Looking upon the paths our shot had ploughed along her deck, I was only surprised that any of her people were left alive to tell the tale.

  6. We were riding across a heavy ploughed field, when I heard cries of "There they are!

  7. The olive crop seems to require but little attention from the peasants; the land is ploughed twice or thrice each year, but the trees are neither manured nor pruned, and hence they only bear the full crop every other year.

  8. Soon I came to a large field quite recently ploughed up clean, footpath and all.

  9. When ploughed deeply, the clods turned up look frequently like compact masses of iron ore.

  10. For roots, the land is ploughed three or four times, besides harrowing, drilling, and rolling.

  11. The engine had climbed, a proprii motu, a long ascent; had made its way partly through ploughed land to the rear of the barn, and was rattlingly busy in a fog of dust, doing the labor of a hundred flails.

  12. They make nothing of ascending a hill without help, or of walking across a ploughed field to a rick-yard.

  13. Every gun that we had in range opened upon the advancing columns and ploughed their ranks by a fire that would test the nerves of the bravest soldiers.

  14. How they have ploughed its fields, and gathered its harvests, and mined its iron and gold, and built thousands of workshops, and fed the nations with the food they did not need for themselves.

  15. I've ploughed furrows enough if go 'round the world.

  16. Six teams of oxen were drawing it, and we could see the flying furrows on either side of the scraper as it ploughed in the deep drifts.

  17. Indeed, with the exception of some ploughed fields round the town, the whole valley is well suited for a camp.

  18. From this village to Attegrat the road keeps in the bottom of a broad valley, the great part of which is ploughed up and ready for the seed, which is, I suppose, sown before the June rains.

  19. In the distance, a sportsman was making his toilsome way through the deep furrows of a ploughed field, while his dog busied himself among the hedges until he started a covey of birds, and the fatal crack of the gun was heard.

  20. One of these guns, laden with grape shot, was now fired at the boats, but the elevation was too low, and although the water was ploughed up to within five yards of the launch, no injury was received.

  21. The schooner fought well; but her metal was not to be compared with our thirty-two pound carronades, which ploughed up her sides at so short a distance, driving two ports into one.

  22. They were at the ploughed field by Parker's Spinney now.

  23. It was just as we came to a long ploughed field, sir, by the side of a big wood.

  24. There were hedges and brooks to be negotiated, and, worst of all, ploughed fields.

  25. Welch seems to have been the last to see him, and he left him lying in a ploughed field near Parker's Spinney.

  26. He resolved to do his best for the honour of the House, but just as the second mile was beginning, the first of the ploughed fields appeared in view, stretching, so it appeared to Jim, right up to the horizon.

  27. The rest had dropped out at the sight of the ploughed field.

  28. The first ploughed field usually thinned the ranks of the competitors considerably.

  29. I dropped out at that awfully long ploughed field by Parker's Spinney.

  30. I can see the hedges, wet and shining after rain; the dull November sky; ploughed fields and muddy lanes.

  31. Singularly enough, the only spot of ploughed land in the whole valley is on the knoll where this Bandusia rises.

  32. He never came across the moor behind his manse on a summer day, and entered the cool pine wood which separated it from the ploughed land, without sitting down beside a certain pool of a burn which ran through the fringe of the wood.

  33. Personal rights come in when one has put capital into the land, has cleared and ploughed and sown it; then it's his own, and he is entitled to fence it, and he cannot be dispossessed except on fair terms.

  34. There must be a confirmed assurance in your mind that you have got out of the conventional into the natural, which will not establish itself unless there be a consciousness of distance between you and the next ploughed field.

  35. Burns wove a stanza as he ploughed the field.

  36. The barrage lifted again, this time before they were well up on it, and the line ploughed on in pursuit of it.

  37. But first there was this shell-ploughed wilderness to cross.

  38. They were indeed like fish-hooks, and so sharp and strong, that once in amongst them no one could have escaped without having clothes and skin ploughed and torn in a terrible way.

  39. Your hearts have been ploughed and harrowed and are now frozen up.

  40. Why you'd think he'd never hoofed it over ploughed land in all his life.

  41. I ploughed when I was a girl, ploughed oxen.

  42. By and by he remembered this, and ploughed his way up the snowy incline to the Citadel.

  43. Again a bell rang sharply, the paddles ceased backing and ploughed forward again.

  44. Two heavy flat-boats ploughed alongside of his; deep in the bows and yawing their sterns ludicrously.

  45. Suddenly the broad-antlered monster was above him, striking with terrible cutting hoofs, which ploughed deep furrows in his shaggy coat and cut deeper gashes.

  46. Her remaining horn ploughed a deep wound in his shoulder and the force of the contact knocked the breath out of him, but it also aroused his fighting blood and put him upon his guard.

  47. There was a sharp crack from the rifle, and the bullet ploughed a deep wound in Black Bruin's scalp, but glanced from his thick skull and went singing through the tree-tops.

  48. The ground was very heavy, a ploughed field being the space between the road and wood.


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