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Example sentences for "plowshare"

Lexicographically close words:
plowed; plowing; plowman; plowmen; plows; plowshares; ploy; ploys; plu; pluche
  1. Once this field was plowed by Piru, Lempo furrowed it with horses, With a plowshare made of copper, With a beam of flaming iron; Never since has any hero Brought this field to cultivation.

  2. The Remington rifle runs back the frontier line; the plowshare holds the land at last.

  3. Not more to him who drives back the frontier than to him who follows after and wins that wilderness with sword re-shaped to a plowshare does the promise to Asher of old stand evermore secure!

  4. We can find no term in the gradation, from the plowshare to the cathedral buttress, at which we can set a logical distinction.

  5. If any man in plowing the field ran his furrow beyond the proper limit, his plowshare would be likely to strike one of these posts.

  6. The very words of the chant, the smell of the earth as the plowshare turned it, had a sort of magic for him.

  7. Again, by a tightening of the muscles, his plowshare jaw protruded.

  8. There below him Cyrus Childers moved along this terrace; he was alone, and he walked with his curious, hovering motion; his arms and his hands moved; his plowshare jaw protruded.

  9. At last I was working my own land; with the plowshare I was opening the gate of an unknown future; and my fingers tingled as I jerked the lines.

  10. Was sorrow the only plowshare that turned the quiescent soul to bountiful harvest?

  11. We have received the second number of the Plowshare and Pruning-Hook.

  12. The Plowshare and Pruning-Hook will be continued from its second number, and published from the home of the Integral Phalanx in a few weeks, as soon as a press can be procured.

  13. Many of these, very distinct in the early days, are now almost obliterated by the plowshare of the farmer and the spade of the relic hunter.

  14. Cast in iron or steel, the gracefulness of a plowshare is less destructible than the metal, yet pliant, within the limits of its type.

  15. Much the same structure is repeated in a plowshare by chilling the underskin of the steel to extreme hardness, while the upper face of the share is left comparatively soft.

  16. At the places where mud clung to a plowshare the plow-maker was long ago told at what points to raise his metal; conversely, when a cutter of any kind is unduly worn at any part of its side, there the metal asks to be somewhat narrowed down.

  17. A worn out plowshare is renewed for a dollar or two, keeping the plow as a whole substantially new.

  18. This six-fold plowshare is the chief excavating tool.

  19. I see it fixing its double plowshare against the back partition, arching into a bow and then suddenly releasing itself and striking the plug in front of it with its barbed forehead.

  20. He felt for the little mouse which his plowshare turned out of its nest, and he pitied the poor hare which the unskillful fowler could only wound.

  21. He is urging onward a team of four thin and exhausted horses; the plowshare sinks into a stony and ungrateful soil.

  22. They fell devoted but undying upon the battle fields of the far-off South, where their comrades placed them in their blankets in their shallow graves, which the rains of heaven or the plowshare have leveled with the earth.

  23. He was hammering on a red plowshare when Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.

  24. Presently he whistled softly, and ran to Charles just as he was about to strike the red-hot plowshare which he was holding on the anvil.

  25. A farmer, the other day, took a plowshare to the blacksmith's to be sharpened, and while the blacksmith worked the farmer chuckled and bragged about a sale of hogs he had just made.

  26. The plowshare being done, the farmer handed the smith 50 cents.

  27. There are no instances of hoes with metal blades, except of very late time, nor is there any proof of the plowshare having been sheathed with metal.

  28. It has been stated in a German periodical that traces of the plowshare have been distinguished in the fields adjoining this villa.

  29. Were we designed for daily toil, To drag the plowshare through the soil, To sweat in harness through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load?

  30. I do not exaggerate very grossly when I say that a blacksmith would have hammered a plowshare out of his hard face.

  31. I am gazing again upon the sepulchre of the old South, after the plowshare of war and reconstruction had run the last furrow.


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    Other words:
    hatchet; jackknife; pick; tool