Novelist Henry Mackenzie called him "the heaven-taught ploughman".
The ploughman has a better chance than the lean, tired man who says apologetically: "I think I could learn how to prune vines or do some kind of farm work.
Ballooning is lifting spirits and gaily ornamenting the air As Icarus and Daedalus flew, "the ploughman stopped his work to gaze, and the shepherd leaned on his staff.
New Commander for 2 Canadian Air Division Brigadier-General Bruce Ploughman took command of 2 Canadian Air Division today at a ceremony presided over by Lieutenant-General Yvan Blondin, Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Thomas Jefferson in San Antonio Express Thomas Jefferson wrote, "State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor and the former will decide it as well and often better than the latter because he has not been led astray by artificial rules."
Mike Selvey in CricInfo.com A hayrick-haired son of the soil with a heart of oak bowled England to a memorable victory,wrote Mike Selvey in The Guardian "Hoggard is a country boy whose ploughman-plod has its roots in solitary dogwalking out on the moors. A brief...
Stuart Broad in Times Online He comes out with some strange quotations,Broad said. "I'm not sure where he gets them. There's one about a Chinese ploughman who was watching the rain and not his crops. He always comes up with a poem, too. It's funny but he gets away...