Which preposition to use with ploughman
They belong to the best ploughman in the parishJohn Turnbull.
I did not distinctly understand you,you don't mean to make an actual ploughman of him?
She loads the untutored ploughman with the most lavish gifts, while the scholar sits neglected in his study.
A ploughman to his country lost, An author to his printer's cost A slave to every man who'll buy him, A knave to every man who'll try him Yet let him take the pen, at once The laurel gathers round his sconce!
In which case, it appears plainly that A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor RICHARD says.
And the swart ploughman for his breakfast stay'd, That he might till those lands were fallow laid; The hills and vailles here and there resound With the re-echoes of the deep-mouth'd hound; Each shepherd's daughter, with her cleanly peal, Was come afield to milk the morning's meal.
It is plain that it giveth more to the ploughman than to him that worshippeth it.