“A horse-drawn plough is difficult to control at first because it must cut in a straight line and to an even depth.”

“Robert Burns was fully as unlettered and as rustic a plowboy as could be desired to prove the mighty miracle of genius.”

“Then he went to bed, and whether from the widow's blessing, or the air of the place, he slept like a plowboy.”

“The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.”

“Now tractors, settled villages and efficient irrigation schemes fed from dams along the Sebou river have turned the area into permanent ploughland.”

“A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.”

“A Mid-Lothian farmer, observed to his ploughboy that there was a fly in his milk.”

“I am certain it is not at that of the soldier, or the sailor, or the ploughboy, or the thief.”

“If he had been a fisherman or a ploughboy it would not have mattered, and she would not have cared.”

“The soldier had to beat his sword into a plowshare, and small wonder if the blacksmithing was sometimes clumsy.”

“The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance.”

“Beyond the clash of swords and the swish of spears they see the mild and productive era of the plowshare and the pruning hook.”

“Most of all, you gain a chance to become something more than a clodhopping plowman.”

“And I am your plowman, and will hereafter do your plowing only for a thaler a day wages.”

“He spoke with a backwoods twang and walked in the long-striding, flat-footed, cautious manner of a plowman.”

“You can't lay out a fence line or shape a plowland or fell a tree or break a colt merely by observing general principles.”

“The forest east of the Appalachians had largely gone, to be replaced by pasture and plowland, and had been severely reduced between the mountains and the Mississippi.”

“Lara loved these rides with him, especially in winter, when it was already dark outside — the half hour up and over the ridge, through little villages, past meadows with old apple orchards and plowland.”

“The oaks were then planted about three metres apart on the big ridge left by the ploughshare.”

“Row seeding can already be achieved using a ploughshare or an ard as a furrow opener and hand metering while dropping the seeds into the furrow.”

“Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.”

“He entered the field a simple ploughman, he strode out of it a belted knight.”

“One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed.”

“For as the ploughman first setteth forth his plough, and then tilleth his land, and breaketh it in furrows, and sometimes ridgeth it up again.”

“I saw a farmer with a horse-drawn plow working in the field beyond the tree line.”

“The world looks on with bated breath as two old rivals get together moulding their swords into sickles and ploughshares.”

“Ordeal by fire required suspects to carry hot irons, or to walk blindfold and barefoot through red-hot ploughshares or over heated coals.”

“We are turning our swords into ploughshares and this step should be appreciated and followed by all other countries.”

“This was accompanied by larger fields as well, known variously as carucates, ploughlands, and ploughgates.”

“Before the Conquest, Furness, assessed to contain 82 ploughlands, was part of the Manor of Hougun, held by Tostig, Earl of Northumbria.”

“Labourers are they who provide us with sustenance, the ploughmen and husbandmen devoted to that alone.”

“Even the senior ploughmen found the grassland difficult enough to get the depth.”

“Often listed with the number of ploughs, it has been assumed that most would have worked as ploughmen, domestic servants and dairymaids.”

“It was a form danced by itinerant ploughboys in sets of three or four, about the time of Candlemas.”

“Class amusements, be they for dukes or ploughboys, always become nuisances and curses to a country.”

“Heavier plows with wheels, horizontal plowshares, and a moldboard were invented, which cut down on manual labor.”

“As a military member, my association with violence and war appears to compromise my service of the God who would turn swords into plowshares.”

“Surrounded by so many plowshares, he seemed both hyper-alert and blissed out.”

“The abbey hath belonging to it temporally and spiritually plowlands and granges.”

“There was no point cutting forests to expand plowlands if there wasn't enough dung to build soil or enough labor to spread it.”