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Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2018

From the 1880s to the late 1920s, Presque Isle Bay in winter was inhabited by a different lot of outdoorsmen - scores of polers, plowmen, feeders, packers and foremen.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2018

Real plowmen and artisans won public office only rarely, but middling farmers, petty traders, successful mechanics, and ambitious country lawyers won elections in all the states.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Still, it’s pretty easy to come up with controls to regulate quality through random spot-checks and audits with customer service reps or even plowmen.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2013

So a' set oot an' ransackit the parish till a' got him, an' gin he wesna sittin' in a bothie takin' brose wi' the plowmen an' expoundin' Scripture a' the time.

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian