The first is that – by accident or design – the translators chose to evoke the very ploughboys for whom Tyndale made his vernacular Bible, a very different audience from the metropolitan Anglicans to whom their version was directed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Seriously, though, it always used to bug me when books did NOT live up to their covers: all those Frazetta Flesh and Thew Fests wrapped around drab little tales of angsty ploughboys. ❋ Shweta_narayan (2010)
And Chloe's own erotic exhilaration knows no bounds: glowing with anticipation, she breaks into song to celebrate her future marriage, which she sings "will be fun," a sentiment her chorus of ploughboys echoes with the refrain, "be fun, be fun, be fun,/And that to me will be fun" (173). ❋ Unknown (2006)
They have turned the theatre back into a chapel again: they have six little ploughboys dressed in surplices to sing the service; and ❋ Unknown (2006)
While Frank Gresham was thus misbehaving himself, and going on as though to him belonged the privilege of falling in love with pretty faces, as it does to ploughboys and other ordinary people, his great interests were not forgotten by those guardian saints who were so anxious to shower down on his head all manner of temporal blessings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But nothing now could rob her of the power of boasting that she had consorted on the lawn with the squire and Miss Thorne, with a countess, a bishop, and the county grandees, while Mrs. Greenacre and such-like were walking about with the ploughboys in the park. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But that did me no good for it was other pretty ploughboys he enjoyed. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Come, all you jolly ploughboys, and help me to sing; ❋ Unknown (1999)
Class amusements, be they for dukes or ploughboys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
He had heard other ploughboys with rapture recount scenes of rustic jollity, which had fallen in their way, while out on nocturnal visits to the fair daughters or servant girls of the neighbouring farmers -- scenes of which he was practically ignorant. ❋ Various (N/A)
France is a very capable, hard-working woman -- up early, seeing to everything herself, and ruling all her carters and ploughboys with a heavy hand. ❋ Mary Alsop King Waddington (N/A)
There were all sorts and kinds -- some men in dress coats and white gloves, some very rough specimens in corduroys and thick-nailed shoes, having begun life as garçons de ferme (ploughboys). ❋ Mary Alsop King Waddington (N/A)
It is noticeable for Lord CATHCART's appeal for the wild birds, which, as addressed to farmers and farm-labourers and armed ploughboys, may be summed up by an adaptation of the refrain of the remonstrance -- so frequently urged by one of Lieutenant COLE's funny figures -- "Can't you let the birds alone?" ❋ Various (N/A)
The caw of the rooks that followed the plough, whose shining share turned up the aromatic soil, the merry whistle of the bonneted ploughboys, the voices of the blackbird and the mavis, made him sad, and pleased was Lemercier to leave behind him all such sounds of life, and reach the wild and solitary place where the obelisk stood -- a grim and time-worn relic of the Druid ages or the Danish wars. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then he became a college professor at the theological school of Wittenberg and began to explain the scriptures to the indifferent ploughboys of his Saxon home. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Persons of ton guffawed like ploughboys over the discomfiture of an old hunks thus divertingly stripped of his bride, all his betrothal gifts, and of the very clothes he wore. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Around the coach were grouped a score of men of Saint-Eustache's company -- half soldiers, half ploughboys -- ill-garbed and indifferently accoutred in dull breastplates and steel caps, many of which were rusted. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-pedlars to the silken and perfumed amity which only celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle and dinners at the best taverns. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Spring was at hand; the ploughboys whistled between the furrows, the larks circled overhead, and the lilacs were cautiously pushing forth their noses. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
I thought we were having a [quiet night] of poker until [Shane] began to Merry Ploughboy [Garry] ❋ G-bears Swanlike Lover (2021)
