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
The logo for The Kentucky Cycle features a pioneer woman, jut-jawed and thick-necked, cradling a child in her arms, flanked by a blandly noble plowman and a grimacing boy brandishing a gun.
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
And plowmen motivated by pay-per-inch contracts may speed their trucks through slick, snow-covered streets with rash abandon, ignoring black ice and other hard-to-clear road hazards.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
The plowmen and maids ventured farther into the room.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
