And when he ended his verses, he wept with sore weeping, for indeed the ways were walled up before his face and death seemed to him better than dreeing life, and he walked on like a drunken man for stress of distraction, and stayed not till noontide, when he came to a little town and saw a plougher hard by, ploughing with a yoke of bulls. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Imperial Rome: he had not learnt to love the arts of peace and he cultivated none but those of war; he was by choice a warrior and a sailor, a wanderer to other lands, a plougher of the desolate places of the "vasty deep," yet withal a lover of home, who trod at times, with bitter longing for his native land, the thorny paths of exile. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
We have referred to the Bull many times, both in his astronomical aspect as pioneer of the Spring-Sun, and in his more direct rôle as plougher of the fields, and provider of food from his own body. ❋ Unknown (1920)
I'm beginning to feel already rather as if a plougher had ploughed upon my back and made large furrows; but of course I'm thinking principally of Frank on account of his sprained ankle. ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)
Suppose that the plougher, or dweller-on, is an Englishman: he owes rent to the English. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The site is the field's chief good: so the plougher owes something to those who, making it good, own it, This something is named "rent". ❋ Unknown (1906)
Seasons pursuing each other, the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground; ❋ Unknown (1900)
We have referred to the Bull many times, both in his astronomical aspect as pioneer of the Spring-Sun, and in his more direct role as plougher of the fields, and provider of food from his own body. ❋ Edward Carpenter (1886)
That the sleep shall be for the plougher, and the loaf for him that sowed, ❋ Conrad Hjalmar Nordby (1883)
The reaper with his hook, the plougher with his oxen, the girl who gleans amongst the trailing vines, the child that sees the flowers tossing with the corn, the men that sing to get a blessing on the grapes -- they have all a certain grace and dignity of the old classic ways left with them. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
Seasons pursuing each other, the plougher ploughs, the ❋ Unknown (1867)
For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it]. ❋ Anonymous (1867)
That the sheaf shall be for the plougher, and the loaf for him that sowed, ❋ William Morris (1865)
The head plougher and all, -- all of 'em went away: they had only women and old men, and one young man who stayed behind, who was foolish. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Uncle Tom, being his head plougher, ploughed wrong one day; so Harrison came to Uncle Tom, and began to beat him very brutally. ❋ Unknown (1855)
Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground; ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)
And now {Glaucus}, the Eubœan plougher of the swelling waves, had left behind Ætna, placed upon the jaws of the Giant, and the fields of the ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (1847)
Tawfiq Chahboune: Victor Klemperer's observations on the language of the Nazis would not go ... flight the plougher: I've read a couple of his books. ❋ Steven (2010)
