But at last our hero observed, that this Pillar of Hercules of their journey was itself a moving column, and that the ploughman was only a wayfarer.
The ploughman goes sadly on his way, separating the sorrowing steer from his dead brother.
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores All with weary task foredone; And we fairies, that do run By the triple of Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun Following darkness like a dream.
We are all ready to laugh at the ploughman among lords; we should consider also the case of a lord among the ploughmen.
He seized the chain and began to draw; the ploughman guided the plough and David ploughed nine furrows.
The ploughmanbegan to curse him, and he said: "Ploughman, curse me not; only give me the chain into my hand.
The stranger flew across the field, and the ploughman saw him bound over the hedge, take Lucy into his arms, and drag her, bewildered and enraptured, into the cottage.
The ploughman stared, and said he did not know him.
Wyvis the ploughman was accidentally killed, and Mary's child, named John after his father, was born shortly after the ploughman's death.
She shall not break her word because my father was a ploughmaninstead of a landowner and a gentleman.
If quarrels arose, the seniorploughman kept a stick of grievous crab-tree handy, and was not loath to use it.
As they flew the ploughman stopped his work to gaze, and the shepherd leaned on his staff and watched them, astonished at the sight, and thinking they were gods who could thus cleave the air.
The close association of the ploughman with his cattle, the slow steady tramp at their heels over the field and over again in infinite turns, has given a bovine quality to the minds of those who follow the plough all round the world.
A good mahout, too, is always talking to his beast, like the ploughman and ox-cart driver.
I made a shift to lay out six pounds on an old chariot, which, with the help of myploughman and a pair of cart-horses, has drawn my wife, etc.
And so Giles Joulter the ploughman rides postilion!
The Ploughman and His Sons La Fontaine The Bag of Dust The Camel and the Pig Indian MYTHS.
The ploughman is as severe a satirist of his own class as he is of the rich.
The ploughman asks Hunger the reason why both himself and his servants are unable to work: "I wot well, quod Hunger, what sickness you aileth.
Langland's poem of the vision of Piers the Ploughman is one long diatribe against the vices of the age, and some of the worst of them he expressly dates "sith the pestilence time.
In following it you have gained the resentment of your nobles, and have not even received the thanks of those pitiable hinds, the ploughman in the valley or the shepherd on the hills.
He has a giant in his company, a great ploughman by the name of Horse Shoe Robinson.
The side of every bank glowed in the sun with this bright vermillion tint, and the new-made furrow, wherever the early ploughman had scarred the soil, turned up to view the predominating color.
There let the sweating ploughman toil, The yearning miser count his gain, The fevered scholar waste his oil, But I am bounding o'er the main!
Then Mrs. Ploughman made up her mind to put an end to it.
Mrs. Ploughman received him with quiet dignity, due to a sense of the wrong she had suffered, for which she blamed Mrs. Wicket, and the Democratic Party.
Mrs. Tomkins, who attended each Sunday the little Baptist church at Adams' Forge, did not believe that she and Mrs. Ploughman would meet in heaven.
But Mrs. Ploughman could not find it in her heart to forgive Mrs. Wicket for having been the cause of her grandson Noel's death.
At that moment, old Mrs. Ploughman entered the store to buy a paper of pins.
Old Mrs. Ploughman said nothing, but regarded her friends with a gloomy and thoughtful air.
And because she was sulky and heedless, Mrs. Ploughman called her Sara Barly's rebellious daughter.
So when Noel Ploughman took to keeping company with her, the gossips were all aflitter.
As Mrs. Ploughman belonged to the Methodist side of the town, Mrs. Tomkins was usually ready to disagree with her.
And in her fresh, young voice, she began to sing, while the wagon rattled down the road to Milford, a song she had heard her mother singing the year Noel Ploughman died.
All the rabble rout of Venus pursued him, but the swift-footed ploughman brought his prize safely to Burlington.
The ploughman answers with a long invective against them.
For all this good feasting, yet art thou not loose till ploughman thou giuest his haruest home goose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
