The ploughlandwill be bogland certainly, After this rain.
Across the wet ploughland he took a good pull, With the thought that the cup of his sorrow was full, For the speed of a stag and the strength of a bull Could hardly recover the ground he had lost.
In reply to my question as to what had become of the man who had watched from the blackthorn thicket, he pointed to the opposite hillside, where a dim figure could be seen ascending the ploughland in the direction of a distant farmstead.
It begins by stating what duties lie on each sulung, that is, on the Kentish ploughland corresponding to the hide of feudal England.
The hide appears as theploughland with eight oxen, the virgate corresponds to one yoke of oxen, and the bovate to the single head.
The wind had fallen with the night; as still The roads lay as the ploughland rude, Dark and naked, on the hill.
Something about it seemed vaguely familiar: the land rose and fell in dull and weary undulations, in a vast circle of dun ploughland and grey meadow, bounded by a dim horizon without promise or hope, dreary as a prison wall.
Over everything there was a hush of expectation; and as he gazed he knew that he was no longer in that weary land of dun ploughland and grey meadow, of the wild, bare trees and strange stunted thorn bushes.
According to Mr. Daniloff, a civil engineer, irrigation had raised the productivity of ploughlandby from 15 to 20 per cent.
On the contrary, it struck a blow at an indispensable adjunct of his arable holding, an adjunct without which the ploughland itself was unprofitable; for to work the ploughland one must have the wherewithal to feed the plough beasts.
Item, that no clothman shall keep above one loom in his house, neither any weaver that hath a ploughland shall keep more than one loom in his house.
King John also came ouer from Normandie into England, and there leuied a subsidie, taking of euerie ploughland three shillings.
The insects most injurious to the rural industry of the garden and the ploughland do not multiply in or near the woods.
The ploughland is Lord Onslow's, and it must need a Minister of Agriculture to look after it.
Between the two Clandons, West and East, the road runs by what is surely the finest ploughland in the county.
The ploughland was in splendid condition; in a couple of days it would be fit for harrowing and sowing.
Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step.
When one of his sons went to England, a special tribute was levied on every village and ploughland to bear the young gentleman's travelling expenses.
He used one ploughland in demesne, and thirteen villeins and eleven bordars used the other.
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