plowman
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Nick Belles, 26, a plowman clearing commercial lots in Buffalo’s south towns, said he got a total of three hours of sleep during a three-day stretch.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
But at the time, it was seen as very democratic, which is why you have a milkmaid poet and a plowman poet.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2016
Boötes, the plowman, might as well be a saucepan, and Lyra, the musical instrument, looks to me like a fry basket.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2012
Soon the African earth and its plowman conspire to give the novel its center and its soul.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catelyn spied a second camp strung out along the bank north of the Tumblestone, familiar standards flapping in the wind—Marq Piper's dancing maiden, Darry's plowman, the twining red-and-white snakes of the Paeges.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
From the 1880s to the late 1920s, Presque Isle Bay in winter was inhabited by a different lot of outdoorsmen - scores of polers, plowmen, feeders, packers and foremen.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
Real plowmen and artisans won public office only rarely, but middling farmers, petty traders, successful mechanics, and ambitious country lawyers won elections in all the states.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Still, it’s pretty easy to come up with controls to regulate quality through random spot-checks and audits with customer service reps or even plowmen.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
There is every indication that the practical, unimaginative Latin plowmen and spearsmen received the very alphabet of every art from vanquished Hellas.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
