But no one who has seen much of actual ploughmen thinks them jocund; no one who is well acquainted with the English peasantry can pronounce them merry.
Idyllic ploughmen are jocund when they drive their team afield; idyllic shepherds make bashful love under hawthorn bushes; idyllic villagers dance in the checkered shade and refresh themselves, not immoderately, with spicy nut-brown ale.
In one of the manors of St. Paul of London the plots held by the ploughmen are said to be resumable by the lord without any injury to hereditary succession[354].
MacLure saw them kneeling together to measure, the Free Kirk minister and the ploughmen all in a bunch, and went on his way rejoicing to tell the Free Kirk folk that their new minister was a man of his hands.
And thus if the ploughmen of the country were as negligent in their office as prelates be, we should not long live, for lack of sustenance.
But they that will be true ploughmen must work faithfully for God's sake, for the edifying of their brethren.
As for the other, some ploughmen witnessing the adventure, shouted lustily after the wolf, and succeeded in liberating the poor victim from its jaws.
Now it happened that both the shepherds and ploughmen resided in the same village, and brought up the children amongst them.
The ploughmen hung about the house half the morning, gossiping with the half-idle maidens.
His fluency of utterance held sleepy ploughmen in a state of blinking attention for the better part of an hour.
Never had that sober steed gone home at such a pace, and on brown windy braefaces ploughmen stood wiping their brows and watching and wondering.
In spite of weather and poverty and hard work the ploughmensang in the fields, the children skipped and whistled at their tasks, the passers-by on the road shouted greetings to the labourers in the gardens and vineyards.
Ploughmen are driving their shallow furrows through the stony fields on the hillside.
The men gathered under the King's standard were the farmers and ploughmenof their fields.
The building of the great abbey-church drew its craftsmen and masons to mingle with the ploughmen and reapers of the Abbot's domain.
Idyllic ploughmen are jocund when they drive their team afield; idyllic shepherds make bashful love under hawthorn bushes; idyllic villagers dance in the chequered shade and refresh themselves not immoderately with spicy nut-brown ale.
But no one who has seen much of actual ploughmen thinks them jocund, no one who is well acquainted with the English peasantry can pronounce them merry.
Hatred of Popery had spread through all classes of his Protestant subjects, and had become the ruling passion even of ploughmen and artisans.
Its quiet shores were undisturbed by the bustle either of commerce or of pleasure and the huts of ploughmen and fishermen were thinly scattered over what is now the site of crowded marts and of luxurious pavilions.
I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state.
Swiftly the rival ploughmen Turned the brown earth from their shares; Here were the farmer's treasures, There were the craftsman's wares.
The ploughmen and sowers retorted by seizing every one, throwing them into the pond, and ducking them under the water.
At the spring ploughing in Prussia, when the ploughmen and sowers returned in the evening from their work in the fields, the farmer's wife and the servants used to splash water over them.
It IS some consolation to reflect that by the time we've determined to do something really effectual for the ploughmen of England there'll be no ploughmen left!
See how poor ploughmenstand up in defence of this country and the holy faith.
Excitement among the people began with the first day of the siege of Chenstohova; and ploughmen hitherto silent and patient began here and there to offer resistance, here and there to take scythes and flails and help nobles.
As they soared away from Crete, the ploughmen stopped their work and the shepherds forgot their flocks as they watched the strange sight.
He was one of the strongest ploughmen in all Greece, and he knew Ceres who presided over the fields and her favorite Dryad of the oak tree very well.
When the ploughmen see this done from time to time they are not guilty of clod hopping.
They were a quarrelsome set, the ploughmen and others; and it was generally admitted in the town that their overbearing behavior was responsible for the fights.
After the farmer had gone to bed, some half-dozen ploughmen and a few other poachers from Thrums would set out for the meeting-place.
English rustics whose costumes seem to indicate that they are meant for ploughmen with exotic features that remind us of a handsome primo tenore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
