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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Plough deeptwo feet, at leastfor corn or rye.

He must endeavor, also, to be with the plough hands always at noon."

"It ain't nacheral he'd let you ride him like he was a plough-hoss.

"I was standing by looking at a large-sized fracas one day and me doing nothingjust as peaceful as an old plough-hosswhen a gent ups and drills me in the leg.

Here our young farmer is taught which variety of plough he ought to select for his land, why it is to be preferred, and how it is to be used, and its movable parts (plough-irons) tempered and adjusted, according to the effect which the workman is desirous of producing.

I have adapted the style of my index to the capacities of ladies, plough-joggers, and mechanics.