ploughers

The multitude of his soldiers was like the waves of the sea; his elephants and horses stood up among them like islands; his flags and standards presented the appearance of a forest, and the cows 'tails fluttering at the pike-heads presented the appearance of _lalang_ ploughers.

Malayan Literature Various

Long, straight, or curling rows of ploughers passed by with steaming, struggling mules, with whips snapping and the yodle of workers or the sharp guttural growl of overseers as a constant accompaniment.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

In the ninth century, when the ploughers of the sea seized on the mouth of the Suir, they fortified a little delta some twenty acres in size, having the present Quay as its long side.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

The ploughers had to throw their furrows neat and straight.

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885

Furthermore he set in the shield a soft fresh-ploughed field, rich tilth and wide, the third time ploughed; and many ploughers therein drave their yokes to and fro as they wheeled about.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

The ploughers had to throw their furrows neat and straight.

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863

But unto us, ploughers and sowers, give a fruitful season and sweet rain.

India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861

But the fresh breezes of the German Ocean and the Baltic kept their nerves well braced and their hearts buoyant; and for muscular development the arms of these sturdy ploughers of the sea and the land can vie with those of any of their neighbors on the isles or on the Continent.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

No doubt the great abbey-church of stone that Abbot Baldwin was raising amidst all the storm of the Conquest drew its craftsmen and masons to mingle with the ploughers and reapers of the broad domain.

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

And now I shall tell you who be the ploughers: for God's word is a seed to be sown in God's field, that is, the faithful congregation, and the preacher is the sower.

Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858