Ploughing

Examples

• Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gerald likes the man ploughing the best, his trousers are torn, he is ploughing with an ox, being I suppose a German peasant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Guns which were heard at Brussels were ploughing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and the resolute survivors closing in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You silly thing, he was a Roman farmer, and he was ploughing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The ploughing of certain sacred lands near Delphi by the Phocians was, for example, the pretext for a sanguinary Sacred War. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Having passed the Island of Cythera during the night, by next morning the yacht was ploughing the placid waters of the Cretan Sea. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• For ploughing, sowing, and harvesting, swift machines came forward to do the work of scores of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From time immemorial it has been customary to arm some sort of a frame with wooden or iron spikes to scratch the earth after the ploughing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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