Dennis did not mind being called a ploughboy a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes] Reference
Young Willie the ploughboy was ploughing the main. From Wordnik.com. [The Ploughboy (2)] Reference
She called on her ploughboy for to rest for a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Ploughboy (2)] Reference
I was a ploughboy in the field, a gawky lazy didger. From Wordnik.com. [The Valiant Conscript] Reference
Till her father's own ploughboy her heart did ensnare. From Wordnik.com. [The Ploughboy (2)] Reference
While on Willie the ploughboy the whole time she gazed. From Wordnik.com. [The Ploughboy (2)] Reference
"The king sang it first and I next," said the ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
The former ploughboy slumbered in the bed of the Ducs de. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor. From Wordnik.com. [Old Maid in the Garret] Reference
Of the farmer and the ploughboy and the earth's bounteous yield. From Wordnik.com. [A Song for Each Drink] Reference
I am a jolly ploughboy and I'm ploughing up the fields all day. From Wordnik.com. [The Ploughboy (The Warwickshire R.H.A.)] Reference
You must marry some simple ploughboy who can neither write nor read. From Wordnik.com. [The Bold Librarian] Reference
We miss the soldier, to say nothing of "apothecary, ploughboy, thief.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference
The proverbial ploughboy singing the psalms at his work as Tyndale put it. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London] Reference
“Here,” said the ploughboy, “is something for you — from the master.”. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Republicans insisted upon "The best currency for both ploughboy and bondholder.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
At twenty Lacheneur was only a poor ploughboy in the service of the Sairmeuse family. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolves and the Lamb] Reference
His first entrance into active life was in the capacity of ploughboy to William Burns, the father of the poet, whom. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831] Reference
Now it chanced that a ploughboy at work in a field hard by the palace heard the king's song and caught the words and the air of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
A lady is courted by nine gentlemen and a ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Gone was the shy and shabby ploughboy of a year before. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Gray Homestead] Reference
When the moment comes I shall hit out like any ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
'Like a ploughboy, I was going to say,' said Mrs Askerton. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
A gentleman! and here he was whistling away like any ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
At twenty Lacheneur was only a poor ploughboy in the service of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
The patriots who had applauded the ploughboy, cursed the capitalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Yet this ungainly ploughboy became a man whom to know was to admire. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet] Reference
"Here," said the ploughboy, "is something for you -- from the master.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
He would hit out at Mrs. Elliot like any ploughboy now that it had come. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
Youth is youth, whether in a ploughboy or a-- But my tongue needs a gag. From Wordnik.com. [Clementina] Reference
They fight for her favours and the ploughboy wins, then her brother murders him. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
"The ploughboy is whooping anon, anon," etc., etc., is in the same exquisite measure. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference
Cain's ploughboy with a sort of prologue in which he warns the spectators to be silent. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolves and the Lamb] Reference
To do so would be analogous to transferring suddenly a ploughboy into a company of metaphysicians. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect] Reference
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