Were we design'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughshare through the soil, To sweat in harness through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load?
I find them in the garden, For there's many here about; And often when I go to plough The ploughshare turns them out.
Every year, for centuries possibly, a hard steel ploughshare has gone over that ground, turning over and over the top soil to a depth of six to eight inches.
It is pagan; but wait till you feel it,-- That jar of our earth, that dull shock When the ploughshare of deeper passion Tears down to our primitive rock.
There was once a man who had been to get his ploughshare sharpened by the blacksmith and as he was on his way home it came on to rain, so he took shelter in a hollow tree.
So when he had finished the morning's ploughing he pulled the iron point of the ploughshare out of its socket and snapped it in two.
So he hid himself and saw the Strong man snap the ploughshare in two; but in view of such a display of strength he was much too frightened to let his servant know that he had found out the trick that was being played on him.
Boundless is the field and fertile, Let the ploughshare deep be driven; So, at length, the plenteous harvest Shall look smiling up to heaven!
Teeming as this ocean-like host doth withploughshare and darts and maces and shields and scimitars and swords and lances and foremost of shafts, I will today agitate this ocean.
But not the less did the sword of Volscens pierce the side of Euryalus; and the blood gushed out over his fair body, and his head drooped, even as a flower, which the ploughshare cuts in the field, or a poppy whose stalk is broken.
Each had been the victim of his heart; each had passed over the ploughshare of self-sacrifice.
But Lannithorne, who has long since become accustomed to feeling the ploughshare of passion grind down to his uttermost rock, is perfectly ready with his response.
Thus in the earliest Rome, as everywhere, the arts of forging and of wielding the ploughshare and the sword went hand in hand, and there was nothing of that arrogant contempt for handicrafts which we afterwards meet with there.
Nor is it ever so hard winter that I dare loiter at home, for fear of my lord, but the oxen yoked, and the ploughshare and the coulter fastened to the plough, every day must I plough a full acre, or more.
Unless, by the ploughshare turning the fruitful clods And kneading the mould, we quicken into birth, [The crops] spontaneously could not come up Into the free bright air.
The negro placed the point of his ploughshare a few inches from the first stalk of corn, wound the line around his wrist, and clucked to his horse.
If I am not finely moulded, let me be made into some useful ploughshare or victorious sword.
When they turn their heads upside down they can stir the ooze to various depths, as required, by using the upper bill as a ploughshare and setting it at different angles.
The fine roots reach out between the rows and the ploughshare would cut them off.
He would not "run the ploughshare of contempt "through the graves of his parents," by taking the ground that polygamy is wrong.
The Mannewars make an offering of a fowl and some liquor to the ploughshare on the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.
The ploughshare was at work under them planing the stubble and filling the breeze with the scent of the earth.
Over the ploughshare they soared and danced in joyous measure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughshare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
