The ship was plowing through the tropical sea.

Subsequent plowing, alternating with hoeing, usually occurred once in twenty days.

There was danger in deep plowing of injuring the roots, and this was avoided, except in the middle of rows in wet seasons when it was necessary to bury and more effectually kill the grass.

An elderly man that was plowing with a pair of oxen, as is the custom in Italy, was accompanied by his wife who was well dressed, but he wore only a shirt that reached to his knees, and a hat.

[Preparation of men] training &c (education) 537; inurement &c (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking [Preparation of food], cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing,

7. Elisha "was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen" when Elijah threw his mantle upon him.

Elisha "was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen."

Then the ship could talk no more, her sending apparatus not being strong enough; but the faithful men at Poldhu kept sending messages to their chief, and the recorder on the Philadelphia kept taking them down in the telegrapher's shorthand, though the steamship was plowing westward at twenty miles an hour.

The ball went straight home, down through the throat, mushrooming and plowing on into the neck, inflicting a wound that was bound to be mortal within a few seconds.

Zola in "Le Debacle" puts into his picture of the battle of Sedan an old peasant plowing on his farm in the valley.

Work and Runaways; Day's Work "My mother and father worked in the field hoeing, plowing and all like thatdoing whatever they told 'em to do.

The slow oxen are still commonly used for plowing and for carts.

In the second place, plantation work as a rule had the limitation of daylight hours; in plowing, mules which could not be hurried set the pace; in hoeing, haste would imperil the plants by enhancing the proportion of misdirected strokes; and in the harvest of tobacco, rice and cotton much perseverance

[Sidenote: Job 1:13-19] Now on a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking in their eldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the asses were feeding beside them, when the Sabeans suddenly attacked and captured them, and they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.

I worked around the house and washed until I was nine and then I started to plowing.

"Old Master Deal used to run us from behind him plowing.

"She lives in the second house beyond the big elm" and he started plowing again with a great clatter.

I have got a fine Spread of improveable Lands, and in my own Thoughts am already plowing up some of them, fencing others; planting Woods, and draining Marshes.

When The St. Cloud Democrat began its career as the organ of the Republican party in Northern Minnesota, the central and southern portions of the State were fairly supplied with republican papers, the conductors all being more or less skillful in the art of plowing and sowing the political field; but with no very bright prospect of harvesting a victory.

The region where plowing begins in January, and corn is planted in February or early March, impresses a New Englander with its contrast to his boyhood home.

The negroes were perfectly quiet, and making preparations for plowing.

Some of the lessees resorted to questionable methods for supplying their plantations with the means for plowing and planting.

The teams were plowing in the field at the time the robbers made their appearance.

"One day when an old woman was plowing in the field, an overseer came by and reprimanded her for being so slowshe gave him some back talk, he took out a long closely woven whip and lashed her severely.

As soon as Frank saw that the race had fairly begun, he exclaimed, "Now's our time, Ben!" They ran back to their boat, and hastily shoved from the shore, and the Speedwell, making good her name, was soon plowing the river, in the direction of the island.