The long train began to plod in a laboured, tired way, after the manner of mortals, stopping often, while snow-ploughs in advance cleared the track.
The snow-ploughs were unavailing; as fast as they cleared a space the wind surged down and filled it up in a trice.
His description of the different kinds of ploughs is interesting; and he justly recommends such as were drawn by two horses (some even by one horse) in preference to the weighty and clumsy machines which required four or more horses or oxen.
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And I will add to the five ploughs of land five thousand pounds,' said Sir Charles; 'so that you never shall lack for good cheer.
And I will add to the estate five ploughs of land,' said Sir Roger; 'so that you never shall lack for a home in old Scotland.
On the 15th of July a fresh arrival of oxen brought fifteen more ploughs into use; and again on the 20th.
Further, Johnston received for his work the whole of the ploughs which had been thrown out of use in Freeland by the introduction of steam-machinery.
Then ploughs for seed the fruitful furrows broke, And oxen labored first beneath the yoke.
One climbs a cliff; one in his boat is borne, And ploughs above where late he sowed his corn.
The Kutiah Khonds are the chief offenders in respect of kumeri, to which they confine themselves, as they have no ploughs or agricultural cattle.
From that day, they have a right to get new ploughs from the Kallans free of charge, and give them in return a portion of the produce of the land.
When the sun is hot after a frost the ploughs "carry" certainly, but this is because they dry so quickly; they seldom remain thoroughly wet for any length of time.
The intermixture is quite the same in Central Russia, where they till with one horse, and in England where more or less big ploughs were used.
But the ploughs may be small, or the virgaters exceptionally wealthy, and their compound plough team may have to cultivate only three acres or even less.
The reader may easily fancy the effects of what must have been a very common occurrence, when the village householders sent out their ploughs on heavy clay in torrents of rain.
The observation that the peasantry are commonly provided with small ploughs drawn by four beasts ruins Seebohm's hypothesis entirely.
It sends its ploughs three or four times a year 'out of love,' and 'for the asking.
The knight's fee contained mostly four or five full ploughs or carucates, and still in Lincolnshire sixteen carucates went to the knight's fee[477].
During that time the snow had packed and the snow-ploughs followed by the rollers had made their reappearance on the highroad.
In some places the ploughs had not passed over the road since two days before, for we were now going through a very sparsely inhabited country.
On the road were many snow-ploughs at work levelling the snow.
You cannot go further until the snow packs itself with its own weight, and the snow-ploughs and rollers are able to work on the road.
The ploughs were followed by heavy rollers of wood to pack the snow.
The following day the snow-ploughs and the rollers were busy, and the centre of the highway was made passable for some miles further north.
Snow-ploughs were now drawn by five horses and generally attended by three men.
We always had to be careful to drive in the middle of the road, where the snow had been cleared and packed by the snow-ploughs and the rollers.
Sometimes we could not tell where it was, for the land around was deeply buried and the track of the snow-ploughs was hidden by the fresh-fallen snow.
The ploughs I now met were drawn by six horses and attended by four or five men.
Illustration: "On the road were many snow-ploughs at work levelling the snow.
These ploughs were of triangular form, made of heavy timber braced with crossbeams.
The works at that time were barely big enough to turn out 3 steam ploughs per week.
Steam ploughs were needed for cultivating the soil, especially since the rinderpest of 1864 had killed off all the cattle, England again being the chief supplier of these machines.
He may read the morning paper while heploughs and sit under an awning while he reaps.
Finally, the agricultural labour of the farmer himself has become machine work: 'He ploughsand sows and reaps with machines.
And the king set to him in hand seven ploughs of land, if he might find and bring Merlin to the king.
And Ulfin thee sought, and to the king brought, and Uther Pendragon forth-right anon, set him in hand thirty ploughs of land, and he set thee in hand seven ploughs of land.
It was a foolish measure, as there were various successful steam ploughsand other motor-drawn ploughs then in use, and there was no good reason for offering a reward for the invention of a thing which already existed.
For a year or two a certain number of iron ploughs of Russian make were imported and sold through the Jewish settlement at Margo.
There is some prejudice against English-made ploughs on the score of weight, as they are mostly heavier than those of French, Russian, Greek and American make.
Efforts were made from 10 to 15 years ago to introduce iron ploughs by selling them through the Agricultural Department at half the cost price and even less.
These Ploughsbury not the grass as ours do, and there is no need they should.
And I'll give him to his dowry Full fifty ploughs of land.
I will not father my bairn on you, Nor on no wrongeous man, Though ye would give him to his dowry Five thousand ploughs of land.
But I will marry your daughter Janet With thirty ploughs and three, And four and twenty bonny breast-mills, And a' on the water o Dee.
Surrounded by a throng of functionaries glittering like Christmas trees, the Minister ploughs a few furrows in the field, being followed by four young women of the court who scatter rice grains on the freshly turned soil.
Snowy, hump-backed bullocks, driven by naked brown men, splashing through the shallow water on the rice-fields harnessed to ploughs as primeval in design as those our Aryan ancestors used.
Even now, from the distant valley, we hear a continuous muffled roar, as the mighty freshet, impelled by an irresistible force, ploughs its tortuous channel through the lowlands and ravines.
Turning, in another corner we look upon a miscellaneous group of ploughs and rakes and all the farm utensils, and harness hanging on the wooden pegs.
It is from this direction, rather than from the wide introduction of steam-ploughs and diggers, that the first great impetus to the employment of mechanical power on the farm may be looked for.
Just as the miner pounds away at the rock by means of compressed air or electricity, brought to his hands through a pipe or a wire, so the farmer will work his land by spades or ploughs by the same kind of mechanical power.
Besides the manorial ploughs and plough teams he must know also how many tenant or villein ploughs (carucæ adjutrices) there are, and how often they are bound to aid the lord in each manor.
Servian ploughs with six, ten, or twelve oxen in the team.
They held their virgates free of service, and perhaps their strips were ploughed by the common ploughs in return for their services without their contributing oxen to the manorial plough team.
But it should be observed that this seems to hold good only of the ploughs on the lord's demesne--in dominio curiæ.
The carpenter[93] also held his holding free, in return for his obligation to repair the woodwork of the ploughs and harrows.
Supposing the total number of ploughs to be forty, these would be divided into four classes of ten, and each class would choose a Sheikh to represent them.
But there is nothing impossible in the supposition that a Saxon king should enact a law that every tenth strip ploughed by the common ploughs throughout the villages of England should be devoted to the Church.
The faber,[92] or blacksmith, whose duty it was to keep in repair the ironwork of the ploughs of the village, usually held his bovate or other holding in respect of his office free from ordinary services.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
