Till, wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruined, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thineno distant date; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

You take as much pains over a plough handle as you would over a buggy!"

There was I and Jack the plough-boy, Jem Moore and old Tom Hines, And poor old Tom the fiddler, Who now in glory shines; And several more of our old chums, Who shine in Kingdom Come, We all associated round the Old Keg of Rum.

* You must not be shocked to find that Captain HARRY GRAHAM has (apparently) abandoned the lighter fields of literature for the heavy plough-land of Biography.

But every plough-man and rude shepheard swain Doth still reply unto my greater paine?

It is now becoming so serious a trouble, that in many villages plough-bullocks are too few in number for the area of land under cultivation.

No soldier gay Feels at his side the throb of the gold hilt (Knowing the blue blade hides within its sheath, As lightning in the cloud) with more delight, When first he belts it on, than he that day Heard still the clank of the plough-chains against The horses' harnessed sides, as to the field They went to make it fruitful.

Two steam ploughing engines are returning from their work to their place beside the shed to wait fresh orders.

We have been particularly pleased with the remarks of Mr. Slight upon ploughing-matches, (Vol. i. p. 651,) in reference especially to the general disregard among judges, of the nature of the underground work, on which so much of the good effects of ploughing in reality depends.

His great hands Held both the reins and plough-stilts: he was proud; Proud with a ploughman's pride; nobler, may be, Than statesman's, ay, or poet's pride sometimes, For little praise would come that he ploughed well,

One rainy season the family was busy with the ploughing: Ret Mongla used to take the plough cattle out to get some grazing before the sun rose; and his two brothers took the ploughs to the fields a little later and the old father used to look on and tell them what to do.

From the plough-tail to the reaping-hook, and back again, is all they know.

You need not be frightened; when you take him out ploughing make him drive the front plough, and you sharpen your plough pole to a point and drive it into him from behind and kill him

No, these Anatolians desire nothing better than to follow their plough-oxen, and live their common village life, under any master who will let them be.

Why, the hands guid-ed the plough; and the lands were plough-ed in fur-rows as straight as the flight of an ar-row sped by the strong-est arm.

De mule tuk it all, en 'peared ter be ez 'umble ez a mule could be; but w'en dey wuz makin' de turn at de een' er de row, one er de plough-lines got under de mule's hin' leg.

The iron part of it is like a plough-coulter.

Not that there is much plough round about Cirencester nowadays; agricultural depression has diminished the amount of arable in recent years.

"I forgot our plough songs: 'I wonder where my darling is.' 'Nigger makes de cotton and de White man gets the money.'

Pattle, plough-staff.

Plough-swains are blunt, and will taunt bitterly.

The wastes are playgrounds (and let us try to keep them such for the children's children who will inherit no other sort of demesne); the grasses and reeds nod to each other over the river, but we have cut a canal close by; the very heights laugh with corn in August or lift the plough-team against the sky in September.

Hodge's forefathers knew no rival at plough time; after the harvest they threshed the corn all the winter with the flail.

"We have got through ploughing-time, and now comes seed-time, and then harvest," said Barbara.