plowman

Example Sentences

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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

The Edinburgh literati lionized him as the "Heaven-taught plowman."

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Walder quartered the twin towers of Frey with the brindled boar of his grandmother's House and the plowman of his mother's: Crakehall and Darry, re-spectively.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin