27 examples of ploughboy in sentences

Ploughboy finds the following remark in Mr. GREELEY'S thirtieth

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whoopinganonanon There's joy in the mountains; There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone!

The ploughboy's whistle was heard in every field in harmony with the lark.

You have our English standard of manners in your mind, manners which range from a ploughboy to a king, and you seem to take it for granted that these are also subscribed to in other countries.

If a prince here chooses to behave like a ploughboy, he is right where the ploughboy would be wrong.

If a prince here chooses to behave like a ploughboy, he is right where the ploughboy would be wrong.

So give me leave to walk along the Down and look on Moonfleet but this once, and in this ploughboy guise I shall be safe enough, and will come back to you tomorrow night' He looked at me a moment without speaking; and all the while I felt he saw me through and through, and yet he was not angry.

Though my disguise was good, I fear I made but an indifferent bad ploughboy when walking, and found a difficulty in dealing with my hands, not knowing how ploughboys are wont to carry them.

Though my disguise was good, I fear I made but an indifferent bad ploughboy when walking, and found a difficulty in dealing with my hands, not knowing how ploughboys are wont to carry them.

," said Tommy; "I am a gentleman, and don't choose to slave like a ploughboy.

A lady who sat by Mrs. Merton, asked her, in a whisper loud enough to be heard all over the room, whether (indicating Harry) that was the little ploughboy whom she had heard Mr. Barlow was attempting to bring up like a gentleman?

"Now, gentlemen, here is an excellent ploughboy.

Lesbia despised him for that neglect of all his opportunities of culture which had left him, after the most orthodox and costly curriculum, almost as ignorant as a ploughboy.

A ploughboy is a better philosopher and moralist than this mouthing Maltravers, with his boasted love of mankind (which reduces itself to a very coarse love of womankind), and his scorn of "the false gods and miserable creeds" of the world, and his soul "lifting its crest to heaven!"

We miss the soldier, to say nothing of "apothecary, ploughboy, thief.

We had a ploughboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

I ran like a ploughboy going to work.

A sturdy ploughboy comes up with a piece of iron on his shoulder; it does not look large, but it is as much as he can carry.

One edge of it is polished by the friction of the earth through which it has been forced; it has to be straightened, or repaired, and the ploughboy waits while it is done.

The tunes whistled by the ploughboy as he goes down the road to his work in the dawn were not written for him.

In the grey of the winter dawn, as the stars paled and the whitened grass was stiff with hoar frost, and the rime coated every branch of the tall elms, as the milker came from the pen and the young ploughboy whistled down the road to his work, the spirit of the aged man departed.

Sun worshipper am I, and serve the gods Of stream and meadow and the flowery lea, Of winding woodways where the loosestrife nods In summer and in spring the anemone, And thymy sheep-paths where the ploughboy plods Home to his frugal but sufficient tea.

10 Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whoopinganonanon: [A] 15 There's joy in the mountains; There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone!

But on account of this impident young sckamer ye go tellin' me ye won't marry Mr. Quinn, the man I chose for ye, an' I catch ye sweetheartin' an' carryin' on wid that ploughboy there, demanin' yourself altogether.

It is not uttered with rapidity, but with the pleasing tranquillity of a careless ploughboy, whistling for amusement.

27 examples of  ploughboy  in sentences