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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

But when at home—which he often is for weeks together—he attaches himself to all the ongoings of rural life, as devotedly as if a plougher of the soil instead of the sea.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

"Eat what, I wonder!" zaid the heäiry plougher.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William

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

He only will succeed here who traces his onward path as patiently as the plougher traces the furrow with his plough.

From Liza "A nest of nobles" by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden