A few, very few coolies, in loose blue cotton garments, are at work, ploughing with ancient and rude ploughshares.
We passed the celebrated Bell Farm at night where the furrows are usually four miles long, and the work is done by military organization, "ploughing by brigades, and reaping by divisions.
When he was in the field ploughing or cultivating he took a book with him, and when he stopped to rest would pull it from his pocket and read until it was time to resume work again.
He was hanging on to the rope, his heels ploughing the dust, and the cow pulling him about as she liked.
The ploughing was at a standstill in consequence, for we had only two draught-horses.
Romans as their neighbours, and possibly learned the art of ploughing from these neighbours and borrowed a name for it.
The invention of the art of ploughing opened new possibilities for the European peoples: for an agricultural people has far better chances than a people of herdsmen of accumulating wealth and making progress in the useful arts.
He gave his little sister a look and a little smile, that told of an entirely other page of his life, folded in with the ploughing experience; a word and look very different from any he had given his questioners.
Boys, you may take the oxen, and finish ploughing that upland field -- I shall be busy all day sowing wheat in the bend meadow.
The day was sultry, as it had promised, and the uphill lay of the ground made the ploughing heavy, and frequent rests of the oxen were necessary.
And you will be clearing the scrub, cutting down trees, ploughing the land, sowing and reaping.
The land’s my own now, and I’ll come back in time for the ploughing next year.
Sleighs of all sizes were ploughing their way hither and thither, breaking out a track in the heavy mass that encumbered the streets.
The great houses opposite were almost hidden from view by the soft, fluttering flakes, and below, in the broad street, the horse- cars moved slowly along like immense white turtles ploughing their way through deep white sand.
Josephine entered the room, clad in many furs, and a few minutes later all three were on their way to Mrs. Wyndham's, the big booby sleigh rocking and leaping and ploughing in the heavy dry snow.
The father thus ploughing with his child, and to feed his family, is inferior only to the emperor of China ploughing as an example to his kingdom.
He was ploughing with two wild little oxen, and could hardly manage them.
She could distinguish one of the laird's men, ploughing in the valley below: she knew him by his red waistcoat!
Eighteen years had I watched the ploughing and the harvesting, the cutting of the peats and the carting of hay, and never a word of Dan since the queer outlandish messenger carried my word to him to come home.
But on this April Sunday, after the week of ploughing stubble, we lay long and listened to the pleasant rattling of horse chains, and rustling of bedding, when the horses pawed for their morning meal.
Farmers, you take pains to get two teams, so that the boys can take hold at the ploughing and in the corn.
We have Daniel Webster ploughing on a farm and afterward delighting two worlds with the magic of his voice.
We drove over to another claim shack a mile or so from the Reeds', where Bob was indeed ploughing for Maggie.
Mrs. Reed evidently accepted Maggie as a natural factor in the situation, and her marital relations were not disturbed in the least, as long as Bob finished his own ploughing first.
The ploughing is finished for the day, but the poet must now needs betake himself to those official duties as an exciseman, which are perhaps even less congenial to him than agricultural pursuits.
Then followed the ploughing month, when it is said that the Inca himself opened the season by ploughing a furrow with a golden plough in the field behind the Colcampata palace, on the height above Cuzco.
Ploughing could be undertaken immediately afterward, so soon as the ground was softened, but there was a fair chance that the ranch would lie idle for want of proper machinery.
There, too, moving specks indicated that theploughing was under way.
I suppose you will want to begin ploughing next week.
The Blessed Dead ploughing and sowing by the waters of the celestial Nile.
Ploughing the sands" has been shown, in a letter to the Times, to be, in some cases, a productive operation.
We ultimately stopped its further progress in the clearing, by ploughing furrows round the fire and a thunder-shower in the evening completed its extinction.
Shortly afterwards the fallow should be well harrowed; in July it should be crossed, ploughed and harrowed, and rolled at least twice before the finalploughing or ridging up, which should be completed by the last week in August.
Let their ploughing be on a Tuesday, and their casting seed into the field on a Tuesday, and their reaping on a Tuesday," said Bres.
But Maeltine said: "The spring is for ploughing and sowing, and the beginning of summer for the strength of corn, and the beginning of autumn for its ripeness, and the winter for using it.
Ploughing time had come, and when we had a mind to plough that field outside, it is the way we found it, ploughed, and harrowed, and sowed with wheat.
I guess we won't be ploughing to-day," said Harris.
Harris found a southern slope where the frost was out enough to admit of him ploughing some sods.
Taking everything together--there won't be no ploughing to-day.
As the stock were taking no harm from the open air, thanks to the shelter of the ravine, Harris decided to delay the construction of his stable until after seeding and to proceed at once with the ploughing of his land.
You should get some kind of shelter up before the frost is out of the ground, so's to lose no time from ploughing once the spring opens.
But if a man has a great number of plots, he will begin by ploughing half of them, and then at the end of the month of Zilhijah he must diligently prepare the nursery plot so as to be ready in about ten days' time.
The end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries saw the establishment all over England of farmers' clubs, cattle shows, and ploughing matches.
The ploughing of two acres of fallow land was the common work of four oxen, which, when fattened at five years old, would reach eleven score a quarter.
As, however, an acre was and is a day's ploughing for a team, we may assume that the most usual acre was the same area then as now.
The penalty for ploughing up the balks which divided the strips, or meere (marc) furrows as they were called in Lincolnshire, was 2d.
Peter raced the beck through the copse where it was ploughing among the tree-trunks; he sought along the basin by the falls, but he could not find a trace of Jan Straw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
