| Franklin, the philosopher of the thunderbolt, the printing-press, and the plowshare. |
| Beyond the clash of swords and the swish of spears they see the mild and productive era of the plowshare and the pruning hook. |
| The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance. |
| A wrought-iron fragment from a plowshare said to have been used for cultivating cotton in South Carolina. |
| They placed the plowshare and the pruning hook where the rifle and the tomahawk long held sway. |
| I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge. |
