And while Chaucer sleeps, as he should, under the vault of Westminster, some unknown tuft of Malvern moss perhaps covers, as it also should, the ashes of the dreamer who took Piers Plowman for his hero.
In Piers the Plowman there is a prevailing tendency to an anapaestic cadence.
Adverbs may precede the words they modify; as, "The plowman homeward plods his weary way.
Next, he hath turned poor Piers Plowman out of doors by his great raising of rents.
I have heard my father say, That Piers Plowman was one of the best members in a commonwealth; For his table was never empty of bread, beef, and beer, As a help to all distressed travellers.
My prowor and my plowman Piers shal ben on erthe, And for to tilie truthe A teeme shal he have.
For I make Piers the Plowman My procuratour and my reve, And registrer to receyve, Redde quod debes.
And that knoweth no clerk, Ne creature on erthe, But Piers the Plowman {308} Petrus, i.
In Piers paltok the Plowman This prikiere shal ryde.
But a plowman there accomplished as much in 5 days as another in 8.
How would you like to have a plowman for a son-in-law, Jock Stair, my daddy O?
Was it possible, I asked God, that my wee bit, wonderful lassie, my Little Flower, had bloomed to be trodden under foot by a plowman of Ayr?
He's a plowman in Ayr, somewhere, and I have it that his verses are something fine.
The hand of the plowman moved automatically upward as if to brush away a fly, and at this unconscious action the child, seized by a convulsion of laughter and fearing lest it explode, stuffed his fists into his mouth.
The plowman fed his horses, and stopped to listen for a moment to their deep-drawn sighs of contentment, and to the musical grinding of the oats in their teeth.
On the following morning the preacher-plowman was afield at break of day.
Its two parts are each diversified by the Plowman beating Knight and Merchant (verberat eos is the stage-direction), but otherwise it is all sheer argument, which in the end a philosopher is introduced to sum up.
Saints are rare at the best of times, and Chaucer, whose mission is to paint life as he finds it, gives good measure when he allows the Parson and the Plowman to form two of his nine-and-twenty pilgrims.
The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way.
Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider.
In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowmanat his hallelujahs.
Merlin was much pleased with this homely repast and the kindness of the plowman and his wife; but he could not help seeing that though everything was neat and comfortable in the cottage, they seemed both to be sad and much cast down.
This great magician, who could assume any form he pleased, was traveling in the disguise of a poor beggar, and being very much fatigued, he stopped at the cottage of an honest plowman to rest himself, and ask for some refreshment.
So speaks the humble plowman of Ayrshire, the still humbler exciseman of Dumfries, but the greatest poet of his country, and one of the noblest and wisest men of any country or age, spite of all his practical errors.
The young plowman of Ayrshire sat hob-nobbing in the temples of splendor and luxury with the most distinguished in every walk of life.
Piers Plowman were with us to-day he would see no visions of "money paid in presents" to State servants, at all events not to the judiciary.
Piers Plowman naturally threw the whole blame on the lawyers who went about, as he said: Pleading the Law, for pennies and for pounds, Unlocking their lips never for love of our Lord.
We seemed to be moving through one vast field dotted with hundreds of busy men, a plowman here, and there a great cart hopelessly lost in the field so far as one could see any sign of road to guide their course.
The cow and donkey are the work team, such as was being used by the plowman referred to in Fig.
It was the light which got into the lad's eyes, and the dust which choked his voice, and it must have been for the same reasons that a plowman passed the back of his hand across his eyes.
One afternoon I went down to the ford in order to warn a plowman that he must not cross.
Sometimes, however, the plowman binds the robber, and then having fastened him to his oxen, drives him off with his hands tied behind him.
Early that morning, before the first milk-cart had rattled through Blenheim Square, Constable Plowman had been called to No.
Plowman had at once sent for a doctor and communicated with Scotland Yard.
Vision of the Seven Deadly Sins, and of Piers the Plowman (pass.
If this be borne in mind, it will not be possible to make the mistake into which so many have fallen, of speaking of Piers the Plowman as being the author, not the subject, of the poem.
Every other rod the plow brought up with a jerk that nearly flung the plowman over the top of it.
The plowman walked along, his lips moving all the while.
Then as I step into the farmhouse--" The plowman suddenly stopped in the middle of a furrow and glanced up, laughing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plowman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
