One of the ploughshares is said to have been afterwards found; and, as to the feat, there was no difficulty, for was she not treading on ground radiant with miracles?
The reputation, not only of their order, but of a queen, being at stake, a verdict of guilty was not to be apprehended from any ploughshares which priests had the heating of.
One mode of ordeal was to place red-hot ploughshareson the ground at certain distances, and then, blindfolding the accused person, make him walk barefooted over them.
Kunegund's virtue, however, did not escape slander, and she voluntarily underwent the ordeal by fire, and walked unharmed over glowing ploughshares to testify her innocence.
She is represented in art with the ploughshares at her feet [Illustration: Forms of Mitre.
The old saw of turning swords into ploughshares was to be enacted by the firm that had made war thrice deadly.
The very ploughs and ploughshares we were manufacturing then were thrown into the melting-pot for guns.
Five years later, having thrown aside his sword, he became a controller of ploughshares as Minister of Agriculture in the Government of the Orange River Colony, and the father-in-law of a British officer who had fought against him.
He states that the accused person was blindfolded and that the ploughshares were placed at irregular intervals--evidently with the design that the person might escape contact with some of the irons: possibly all.
Others could once more see country districts at sunset, when the yellow corn waves, and the great oxen ascend the hills again with the ploughshares on their necks.
And when he emerged he was a very penitent war lord, and like the Mikado of Japan he was set to work beating his sword-blades into ploughshares and pruning-hooks.
With strongploughshares no man the earth did cleave, The ditcher no marks on the ground did leave.
She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke, And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke.
If Bailey will leave the union he may go to hammering ploughshares for us to-morrow, and earn, with his skill, twenty dollars a week.
Our firm will give you a chance to make ploughshares and earn twenty dollars a week if you will only promise not to strike us in return the first chance you get.
You don't convert your ploughshares into falchions, nor the mud of Adderbury into gunpowder.
When your King comes;, the ploughshares will be put into the fire.
What has become of the prophecy "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks"?
And the best of soldiers cannot but feel that fighting is at best a cruel necessity, and that it will be a happy day for the world when men shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks.
The work of the Kingdom of our Lord was smitten as by an enemy; ploughshares were beaten into swords; pruning-hooks were transformed into spears; and instead of the fir and the myrtle-tree there sprang up the thorns and the briars.
Then will our swords be beaten into ploughshares and our spears into pruning-hooks and we shall learn war no more!
But now, if swords are to be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks, where must that work begin?
These pieces, after they have been re-heated in the blacksmith's forge and again placed on the anvil, are shaped by the smith into square bars or into ploughshares or tyres, but mainly into bars.
That's their stock-in-trade; and just you wait and see if you dinna get the ploughshares and the fishes afore the month's out.
Ilka ane o' thae young ministers has a sermon about looms for weaving congregations, and a second about beating swords into ploughshares for country places, and another on the great catch of fishes for fishing villages.
Her first great triumph at the polls may be the fulfilling of the prophecy, spoken more than two thousand years ago, that swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and that nations shall learn war no more.
War over forever, swords beaten intoploughshares and spears into pruning hooks.
Joel teaches us under the madness and folly of Gentile rule ploughshares are to be beaten into swords and pruning hooks into spears and the nations are to give themselves to war and all the horror and desolation of it.
I will tell you in confidence that I believe one of them was responsible for some of my swords and ploughshares falling down with an immensely odious crash just as the opening ceremony was going on.
These poor wretches had done more to better their crops by spending their savings in good ploughshares and harrows than by hanging gew-gaws on a wooden idol.
Odo advanced, picking his way among broken ploughshares and stacks of maize, till he stood near the old marble altar, with its sea-gods and acanthus volutes.
The red-hot ploughshares which had been laid on the pavement were gradually cooling, but no Grettir appeared.
You must lift bars of red-hot iron, and walk with bare feet on ploughshares heated red in a furnace.
The first introduction of iron ploughshares into Poland having been followed by a succession of bad harvests, the farmers attributed the badness of the crops to the iron ploughshares, and discarded them for the old wooden ones.
Their honored birthright by its humblest name Cold are thy skies, but, ever fresh and clear, No rank malaria stains thine atmosphere; No fungous weeds invade thy scanty soil, Scarred by the ploughshares of unslumbering toil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ploughshares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
