plough

• “Let no good and discreet subjects, therefore, follow the flag or banner displayed to rebellions, and borne by rebels, though it have the image of the plough painted therein, with _God speed the plough_ written under in great letters, knowing that none hinder the plough more than rebels, who will neither go to the plough themselves, nor suffer other that would go unto it.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850

• “The plough is a wretched wooden thing, so frail that one can easily carry it on one’s shoulder, and fitted underneath with a rough iron spike which stirs the soil to a depth of about four inches.”

  Marrakech

• “31 In the nearer East the light little plough is carried afield by the bull or ass.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “There's this particularly annoying position called the plough, (I secretly call it the pretzel), where you lie on your back and bring your legs up in the air and then over your head behind you.”

  A Work in Progress

• “A plough is a costly machine, and an iron-shod coulter on new and untried ground might well be vulnerable.”

  The Potter's Field

• “European grain, and fruit-trees, and by bringing the old Roman plough, which is used to this day in Mexico as in Spain, where two thousand years have not superseded its use or even altered it.”

  Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

• “The plough is a little better than that of Egypt of three thousand years ago, and the sickle is inferior.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

• “Also you shall vnderstand that whereas in the former plough, which is for the blacke clay, you may turne the shelboard, that is, when the one end is worne, you may eftsoones turne the other, and make it serue the like season: in this Plough you must neuer turne the shelboard, because the rising wing of the Share will so defend it, that it will euer last as long as the”

  The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments

• “States and Territories, that the axe and the plough are the pioneers of civilization, that farms, cities, and villages, the schoolhouse, and the church, rise from the wilderness, as if by the touch of an enchanter's wand.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864

• “[27] The Armenians use, in ploughing, a kind of plough which is drawn by from five to ten pairs of buffaloes or oxen.”

  Armenian Literature

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