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Ploughshare   /plˈaʊʃeɪr/   Listen
Ploughshare

noun
1.
A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil.  Synonyms: plowshare, share.






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"Ploughshare" Quotes from Famous Books



... mad. "He took her by the lily-white hand."—I could strangle myself for thinking of such things, but they will come!—I won't go mad. I should never get to Garibaldi, and never be rid of this red-hot ploughshare ploughing up my heart. I will not go mad! I will die like ...
— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald

... but wait till you feel it,— That jar of our earth, that dull shock When the ploughshare of deeper passion Tears down to our ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... for Amsterdam, but shall return tomorrow night. And then begins our great quest. But first I shall have much to say, so that you may know what to do and to dread. Then our promise shall be made to each other anew. For there is a terrible task before us, and once our feet are on the ploughshare ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... since the birth of the Lord, Willebrord with eleven others did irrigate the said land with the waters of their holy preaching. Moreover, with the help of his companions he did busy himself with breaking up the ground with the ploughshare of discipline, yet not without much difficulty; and in a short space the task of spreading the faith did prosper wondrously beneath their hands; for God worked with them, and did confirm ...
— The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes • Thomas a Kempis

... in the one flea-infested, windowless room of the "tavern" that night; and before dawn I was up and untethered the horses, and Polly Ann and I together lifted the two bushels of alum salt on one of the beasts and the ploughshare on the other. By daylight we had left ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


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