Some countries still use the method of plowing with a stick.

The ship was plowing through the tropical sea.

Plow in rocks like them!

Yes; for that upheaval, like the plow of some titanic husbandman, brought to the surface elements of good and use which had been lying fallow for unnumbered ages.

Old corn stalks were always plowed under for the next year's crop and they served as an excellent fertilizer.

"Does this land on which you are working so hard belong to you?" "No, sir," replied the laborer, who knew not that it was the king; "I am not so rich as that; I plow for wages.

She plowed into the rear of the elephant with a jolt which nearly flung the two passengers on his head into Glowing Limbo.

The woman with the infant at the breast is in no condition to plow on the farm, labor hard in the workshop, discharge the duties of a juryman, conduct causes as an advocate in court, preside in important cases as a judge, command armies as a general, or bear arms as a private.

Then he would lovingly follow the course of the little steamboats plowing across the immense blue surface, opening a triangle of foam.

The oak-trees gloomed denser on our right as we plowed along a villainously sandy road.

And Bull, apparently understanding the sluggish nature of the old mare by sympathy of kind, use to work her to the single plow among the rocks of their clearing.

It was a splendid fall for plowing, and I began to feel hope return to me as I followed my plow around and around the lands I laid off, and watched the black ribbon of new plowing widen and widen as the day advanced toward night.

He experimented with deep soil plowing by running twice in the same furrow and also cultivated some wheat that had been drilled in rows instead of broadcasted.

Others merely "listed" the fields by first running a furrow with a shovel plow where each cotton or corn row was to be and filling it with a single furrow of a turn plow from either side; then when planting time approached they would break out the remaining balks with plows, turning the soil to the lists and broadening them into rounded plant beds.

"The women plowed like men in plow time.

So I looked across the countryside; a group of elms here, a tufted hilltop there, the smooth verdure of pastures, the rich brown of new-plowed fieldsand the odours, and the sounds of the countryall cropped by me.

The first is, that the whole body of the Church in general has always been, and to the end will be, liable to be afflicted by the wicked, as is said in the Psalms (Psalms cxxix., 1), "From my youth up they have tormented me, and dragged the plow over me from one end to the other."

I doubt me that I am not fitter for the plow than for a trade.

What have I done?" Mr. Cowan had stopped his team, and lifting the lines from behind his back, he wound them deliberately around the handles of the plow before speaking.

A trench five miles long was dug beside a railway track by the simple expedient of hitching a plow to a locomotive.

When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or plowed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory.

I have heard him sing plowing amid the aggravations of a 'new ground,' serving writs, examining deeds, going to arrest criminals, in the house and by the way, at the barn and in the street.

The slaves often acquired great skill in these operations, running plows within two inches of the stalks, and striking down weeds within half an inch with their hoes, rarely touching a leaf of the cotton.