One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed. |
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He entered the field a simple ploughman, he strode out of it a belted knight. |
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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. |
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James was a hard-working farmer, who was a champion ploughman and cattle breeder. |
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The two-dimensional ploughman appears entirely from the outside, just like his draft horses. |
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My heart is frantic With haste A ploughman with a single ox On land all wet And ready for seed. |
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We do not know precisely how his childhood liked like but we found his name mentioned on an act of May 18th, 1614 when he lent money to a ploughman of Autheuil. |
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A handsome ship comes into the harbour, a ploughman works the land, a shepherd guards his sheep and, somewhere in the distance, on the water, the leg of the drowning Icarus and the remains of his feathers are visible. |
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The ploughman still has to set the draughting linkage from the tractor so that the plough is carried at the proper angle in the soil. |
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Into a deep goyle they plunge, and then up the far side to where a ploughman has halted his team that he may watch the sport. There the hounds come to a check suddenly. |
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Early steel ploughs, like those for thousands of years prior, were walking ploughs, directed by the ploughman holding onto handles on either side of the plough. |
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Indeed, the use of alliteration in Old English poetry and in Piers Ploughman might also have influenced his poetic style. |
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In his biography, Ploughman of the Moon, Service recalled that his second effort, The Ballads of a Cheechako, also caused the House some anxiety. |
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Ploughman silently studied the two men for a moment or two longer, then smiled yellowishly, opened a desk drawer, and brought out a bottle of Gordon's gin. |
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