plowman in English
With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
Use "plowman" in a sentence
1. A plowman who looks behind will not plow a straight furrow.
2. A symbolical narrative: the Allegory of Piers Plowman
3. Clerkly MAKER: LANGLAND'S POETIC ART (PIERS PLOWMAN By A.v.c
4. Avarous: Covetous; avaricious: as, “the erle Avarous ,” Piers Plowman.
5. The Clerkly Maker: Langland's Poetic Art (Piers Plowman Studies) 1st ed
6. International Piers Plowman Society Website of international scholarly organization for the study of Piers Plowman and other alliterative poems; includes searchable database of annotations of all scholarship on these poems since 1986.
7. Most of all, you gain a chance to become something more than a Clodhopping plowman
8. If the plowman does not keep looking straight ahead, a furrow will likely become crooked.
9. In order to make straight furrows, a plowman could not be distracted by what was behind him.
10. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III: I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich Appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.
11. The Stone Boatmen evolved from Sarah Tolmie's fascination with the fourteenth-century visionary poem, Piers Plowman, which she has also explored in the media of virtual reality and dance
12. However, the distinction between allegory and reality in Piers Plowman is blurred, and the entire passage, as Wendy Scase observes, is reminiscent of the false confession tradition in medieval literature (also seen in the Confessio Goliae and in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose).
13. 'Woe Betide me' was a common early precursor and appears in William Langland's Middle English narrative poem The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, 1370-90: Er ich wedde suche a wif· wo me by-tyde [If I marry such a wife, woe Betide me]
14. Moneybags or coffers are metonymic with wealth and avarice throughout Piers Plowman, such as in Thought's description of Dobet in Passus 8, where "the bagges and the bigirdles, he hath to broke hem alle / That the Erl Avarous heeld, and hise heires; / And with Mammonaes moneie he hath maad hym frendes" (8.88-90).
15. The Curlews (/ ˈ k ɜːr lj uː /), genus Numenius, are a group of nine species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage.The English name is imitative of the Eurasian Curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger", from courir , "to run".It was first recorded in 1377 in Langland's Piers Plowman "Fissch to lyue in