Ploughboy

Just at this moment I heard old "Bluebeard's" deep note swelling in the distance, and I saw him leading across the table-land as true as gold upon the track; "Ploughboy" and "Gaylass" were both with him but they were running mute.

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

Rosina (1781) and his settings of songs on rural themes including 'The Ploughboy', 'Old

Index of People 2009

_Register_, the _Ploughboy_, and the _Christian Visitant_ clearly indicates; but erroneous judgment and defective impulses resulted in misfortunes which finally darkened and closed his life in adversity if not in poverty.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Seldom or never had the risible nerves of the burly backwoodsmen on board the Ploughboy steamer, been so enormously tickled as by the discovery of this Yankee trick.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

I recommended my interests and the negroes to his care; and the same evening his father and myself went on board the Ploughboy steamer, which was to convey us to the residence of the Ménous.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

He had been editing with great industry and ability the _Ploughboy_ and the _Christian Visitant_, and beguiled himself with a confident belief that farmers and Christians, irrespective of party, would sustain him.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Some one "having presented to the young author a copy of verses on the trite and familiar subject of the Ploughboy," he replied with an ode on "The Potboy."

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Carnival of Venice, or that he would deny himself his natural rest to follow my variations on The Ploughboy.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Give us that air again; how does it go? 'and he affected to endeavour to recall' The Ploughboy '.

The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

There was no shaking him off, and he was immediately backed up by Ploughboy, who caught the other ear most cleverly.

The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857