plowman

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

By that time the plowman and his instrument were rooted in the American myth, a symbol of hard work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cow that lowed, the man who milked, the chickens that came running and the woman who called them, the fragrance streaming from the plowed land and the plowman.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

Ambitious parents sometimes try to make lawyers, doctors, preachers and statesmen out of boys nature meant for plowmen.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver