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I hadn't the faintest notion what sort of thing a ploughshare was, but I'd clever people to help me, and so it was all right.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914
Why don't his grandson hang up his old broad-ax and ploughshare, and worship them_, if he must have idols, instead of that symbol of strife and bloodshed.— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
This was succeeded by a sensation of having my nose converted into a ploughshare, and that was instantly followed by oblivion In the uncertain light my steed had put his foot in a badger hole--that was all, but it sufficed to check the pace of the whole party On recovering I found my head on Salamander's knee.— The Big Otter
At one farm-house I mended a tea-pot and a ploughshare, and at a gentleman's house, near St. Helen's, repaired a cart, and almost re-built a boat, which was used on his fish-pond.— Recollections of Old Liverpool
There the scythe and the ploughshare were being fashioned, and all the implements wherewith the hand of man subdued to his use those rugged hillsides If I could only paint that picture!"— Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania

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