"Plowman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pop, and Judge Tucker's wife, who has been down with pleurisy, is getting some better. I had a talk on these liliputian thesises before I could get a siphon in the fountain of knowledge that I was after. And there's a bank there called the Lumberman's Fidelity and Plowman's Savings Institution. It closed for business yesterday with $23,000 cash on hand. It will open this morning with $18,000—all silver— that's the reason I didn't bring more. There you are, trade and capital. Now, will you ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... Robin Hood, but no real knowledge. He is first mentioned in literature, as the subject of "rhymes," in Piers Plowman (circ. 1377). As a topic of ballads he must be much older than that date. In 1439 his name was a synonym for a bandit. Wyntoun, the Scots chronicler, dates the outlaw in the time of Edward I. Major, the Scots ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... suspect the articles in his pockets to be meager and of poor quality—the things you might find in a peasant's coat. That which he called home was a peasant's house in the Bosk hills—the house of the plowman of Liaoyang, whose children he fathered. Annually, however, he went abroad, telling the story of the underdog, usually making the big circuit from the East to the West, and stopping at a certain little cabin within hearing ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... a plowman with his plow; From early until late, Across the field and back again, He plowed ...
— Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten • Emilie Poulsson |
