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Ploughs are used to prepare the ground when large tracts of land are needed for growing crops such as wheat, barley and rye.
The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... 2011
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But the BEST bit of Theodor Geisel I can offer is that I have the rare, “The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough”, and I cherish it.
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Other drugs tied to venoms include Schering-Ploughs Integrilin (eptifibatide), to treat acute coronary syndrome.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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His adult work can be found in an anthology with the very pronounceable title The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough.
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Ploughs through the boiling surge his desperate way.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Now for the parts of this Plough, it consisteth of the same members which the former Ploughs doe, onely that in stead of the Plough-foote it hath a paire of whéeles.
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The seauenth part is the Plough-rest, which is a small péece of woode, which is fixt at one end in the further nicke of the Plough head, and the other end to the Ploughs right-hand hale, as you may sée by this figure.
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Hauing thus shewed you the substance, difference, and contraries of these two Ploughs, which belong to these two seuerall clayes, the blacke and gray, you shall vnderstand that there is no clay-ground whatsoeuer, which is without other mixture, but one of these Ploughs will sufficiently serue to eare and order it: for all clayes are of one of these tempers.
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Ploughs of this sort were in use in Illinois as late as 1812.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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You pass by many ffine seates, Park's, woods, the Land in Most part of this County is Rich Red Mould and deepe so as they are forced to Plough their Ground 2 or 3 tymes for wheate and Cannot use Wheeles to their Ploughs, its rich Land and produces plenty of all things.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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