Ploughs

The zumeendars of Poknapoor are Kunojee Brahmins, who tell me that they can do almost everything in husbandry save holding their own ploughs: they can drive their own harrows and carts, reap their own crops, and winnow and tread out their own corn; but if they once condescend to _hold their own ploughs_ they sink in grade, and have to pay twice as much as they now pay for wives for their sons from the same families, and take half of what they now take for their daughters from the same families, into which they now marry them. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

But Martin ploughs on: Stevie went through all the songs. ❋ Laura Barton (2010)

The rebuke which Christ gave him for this request (v. 62): No man, having put his hand to the plough, and designing to make good work of his ploughing, will look back, or look behind him, for then he makes balks with his plough, and the ground he ploughs is not fit to be sown; so thou, if thou hast a design to follow me and to reap the advantages of those that do so, yet if thou lookest back to a worldly life again and hankerest after that, if thou lookest back as Lot's wife did to ❋ Unknown (1721)

All week the snow ploughs have been trawling our rural roads keeping them free of ice and snow, for safety reasons round here the ploughs are always doubled manned (two staff stuck in a ditch is safer than one?.) ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

Their ploughs are a straight piece of timber, five feet long and eight inches thick, mortised for two other pieces of timber, one to be fitted to the beam, by which the oxen draw, and another to the handle, by which the man holds the plough. ❋ Unknown (1830)

Gliricidia is also used for preparation of farm tools such as ploughs, pruning aids and in animal feeds or in the control of ticks. ❋ Unknown (1992)

So, I write my people heart-to-heart talks about refugees and wounded, and what kind of ploughs the Servian peasants use, and that St. Paul wrote his letters to the Thessalonians from the same hotel where I write mine; and I tell 'em to pronounce Salonika ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)

The idea came from a historic tradition where workers would bring the tools of their trade such as ploughs to be blessed on the first Monday after people return to work following Christmas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SD: My sense was that it achieved what we had hoped to achieve - make music that ploughs so many different lines that it's hard to define in any one category. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2012)

In those societies that relied on ploughs to prepare the ground, women are today less likely work outside the home, be elected to parliament or run businesses, the groups states. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm large-breasted and broad-hipped and I have the bone structure of my Ukrainian and Swedish ancestors who pulled ploughs and hauled logs all day. ❋ Triciasullivan (2010)

In their research, the economists found a major difference between women's roles in societies that were descended from farming communities that used ploughs and those whose ancestors used hoes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Broncos 0 Chargers 3, 11:34 1st quarter The Chargers realise they're on to a good thing with this running game, as Tolbert ploughs his way off left tackle to the Denver 35, and therefore decide to pass on the next two plays. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Working with ploughs and the animals used to pull them required considerable strength. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sitting in a trailer thick with cigarette smoke, she ploughs through endless topics; from class to the fitness of Tom Hardy, and her desire to do period dramas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But when ploughs were introduced in various regions, men were placed at an advantage. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Chris Lilley ploughs gamely on with Angry Boys BBC3, in which he plays a number of different characters, as he did for Summer Heights High. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He always ploughs some of it back into customer experience and projects the rest for low prices, while driving sales with free cash flow …. something we all need to learn and strive for in our companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From the age of 16, LTC – Tom – Rolt worked with steam ploughs and locomotives. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Man, I'd [like to] [plough] her! [I wish] to plough you. ❋ LittleTitch (2008)

[Candee]: I love you! Harder, harder [Rowan]: I love you Candee Candee: Yes yes! [PLOUGH] THAT PUSSY!!! ❋ Li Ying Chi (2007)

"After a good ploughing, [Penelope] loved nothing more than smoking [a cigarette] or two while the [jelly] like feeling in her legs passed." ❋ Gogggg (2006)

1. Don't [blabber] just because he [ploughed] your queen. 2. [Sid] ploughed his neighbor last weekend. ❋ Babakaashirwad (2012)

[Little Jonny] having become [loathsome] of his pedestrian intimate relations, stepped up his game and [ploughed] every hole he could find with vigor and enthusiasm. ❋ John Mickelstain (2021)

"[Wow] [Dave] is so ploughed [today]" ❋ TheRainman (2009)

"you would [plough] her" 'let me [explain] - [my son] would like to plough you. ❋ Ben Notts (2006)

i was ploughing [this bitch] and i managed 7 [grams] of awesome [nuggets] ❋ Nevs Jap (2012)

person 1: i dropped the [halfpipe] [first time] i ever [skated] Person 2: yeah as in plough ////////or/////// Person 1: i dropped the halpipe first time i ever skated Person 2: plough you did ❋ Dom265 (2007)

[Bar] [patron]: Look, Temerian [soldiers]! Other patron: Plough the lilies! ❋ Juub (2015)