These they instructed daily for the good of their souls in the truths of the Christian religion, while for their bodily needs they were taught toplow the earth, to plant seed, to raise and care for domestic animals.
A yoke of oxen, guided by an Indian, dragged a plow with an iron point made by an Indian blacksmith.
At the narrow areaway between the track and the high wall of the straightaway drifts through which the plow had cut, four men were lifting a limp figure, to carry it to the cars.
Then--with dawn--the plow churned with lesser impact.
Sally after sally the snowplow made, only to withdraw to give way to the pick crews, and they in turn, gasping and reeling, hurried out for the attack of the plow again.
As much as two strong oxen Could plow from morn till night: And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.
They took a plow and plowed him down, Put clods upon his head; And they ha'e sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn was dead.
The magic they used was the ideal tendencies, which always make the Actual ridiculous; but the tough world had its revenge the moment they put their horses of the sun to plow in its furrow.
Even as I have seen, they thatplow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
To the shame and eternal infamy of whomsoever shall turn back from the plow on which he hath laid his hand!
He never begins plowing until he has walked thrice around the plow with a lighted candle.
Illustration: A PLOW Restored by Viollet-Le-Duc, from a manuscript of the thirteenth century at the Seminary of Soissons.
For two or three summers after I began practicing law, I went into the country and engaged myself to plow corn at seventy-five cents per day, in order to keep myself as long as possible from the dangers of the town.
I can recall times when I left horses hitched to the plow or wagon and went on a spree, forgetting all about them, for weeks.
Where the last remnants of the snowdrift lingered yesterday the plow breaks the sod to-day.
As soon as the frost is gone and the ground settled, the plow is started upon the hill, and at each bout I see its brightened mould-board flash in the sun.
No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God.
What forces these peasants, taken only yesterday from the plow and dressed in ugly and unseemly costumes with blue collars and gilt buttons, to go with guns and sabers and murder their famishing fathers and brothers?
I will make thee plow The dust with thy vile body to the tomb Of Agamemnon,--I will drag thee thither And pour out there all thine adulterous blood.
In practicing this method care should be taken to plow late when the soil, moistened by autumn rains, will naturally come up in big lumps.
Luther Merrill came up toplow the space back of the barn.
He said he would plow down there by the house late in the evening, or on the next wet day.
He did not lose his temper, even when he broke one of his plow points, of which, it seemed, he had brought a supply, in anticipation.
Every other rod the plow brought up with a jerk that nearly flung the plowman over the top of it.
His name was Luther Merrill, and if I had thought him handsome in his fine clothes, I considered him really superb when he arrived next morning in work attire and started his great plow and big white horses around the furrows.
Before eight days were out, the Abraham Lincoln would plow the waves of the Pacific.
They plow with a plow that is a sharp, curved blade of iron, and it cuts into the earth full five inches.
There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine.
They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground.
Plow would I looked at my mother-in-law's funeral with a white night gown on and my hair braided down my back with a white ribbin on it?
And I guess he'd kick if I should hitch him onto the plow to plow up a medder, or onto the mower or reaper.
I employed a man with horses and plow by the day and soon had my crops planted.
Although she has decided ideas on the war and voting questions, they are rather vague on farming, but she goes about saying, 'God speed the plow and the woman who drives it.
Der rascals had plow out der lights, and make p'leeve play uker to vool me!
Them mules was standin' in the field at daylight, waitin' to see how to plow a straight furrow.
Dey works animals, de mules and de oxen, but I seed de niggers hitched to de plow sometimes.
Then I learned to plow by my mother letting me hold the handles and walk along with her.
Them whut didn't want to starve got someplace whut he could hold a plow handle.
There was a gang of plow hands, hoe hands, hands to clear new ground, a bunch of cooks, a washwoman.
If you make up your mind to put your florins out to usury, you can let me know to-morrow.
We Florentines hold no man a member of an Art till he has shown his skill and been matriculated; and no man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
If it had been necessary for Brent Kayle to put his hand to the plow in its behalf the words would never have been spoken--but "good money" for this idle trade, these facile pranks!
The owners of this tract allow that the soil is excellent for fruit, but they say that it is so rocky that they have not patience to plow it, and that, together with the distance, is the reason why it is not cultivated.
Each competitor was required to plow one-fourth of an acre in seventy-five minutes, including two rests of five minutes each.
The road-master was the boss, and if he said the roadway must be highly rounded in the center, a plow was run deeply along each side of the track and the loose mud or dirt was scraped up into the road with hoes or shovels.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
