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Examples
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I hung both over opposite ends of my staff, and picked it up like a plowman's yoke, the saddles hanging.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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A foal ripped out a hank of one plowman's hair (roots and all) in fury when the man wouldn't unharness his dam and tried to separate them.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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"But milord Vanyel, it was nothing, it was common plowman's pie - surely you'd have preferred wine to cider; venison or a stuffed pheasant - and you paid me far too much -"
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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"But milord Vanyel, it was nothing, it was common plowman's pie - surely you'd have preferred wine to cider; venison or a stuffed pheasant - and you paid me far too much -"
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Gosh, how she would have welcomed a cup of hot tea and several cheese sandwiches spread with plowman's relish.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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Contrary to my plowman's doubts and predictions, Jack Frost did a grand milling business that winter!
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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Marise went to the window and looked at the scene, penetrated by the strangeness of the difference between its outer and inner aspect: 'Gene, his faded blue overalls tucked into his plowman's heavy cow-hide boots, his shirt open over his great throat and chest, his long corded arms rising and falling with the steady effortless rhythm of the master woodsman.
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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It was still on the plowman's finger as he had worn it for forty years.
Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918
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Sometimes, as they sat alone of an evening, the plowman's wife would remind him of the unused ring and would talk of things she would like to have for the house.
Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918
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He seized Carl's hand with his plowman's paw, and, "Good-by, boy," he growled.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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