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They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The site is the field's chief good: so the plougher owes something to those who, making it good, own it, This something is named "rent".

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

I'm beginning to feel already rather as if a plougher had ploughed upon my back and made large furrows; but of course I'm thinking principally of Frank on account of his sprained ankle.

From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.

Suppose that the plougher, or dweller-on, is an Englishman: he owes rent to the English.

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

He is also said to be the inventor of the plough, therefore was named Zeus the plougher, as if he were Jupiter, the president of agriculture.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous