ploughshare

• 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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