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"Theer!" said Blob, pointing. Far away on the rim of the world stood a tiny horseman. What was he, that little speck of blackness on the horse without legs? ploughboy or dragoon? alone or the leader of a troop? "Wave!" cried the Parson at his elbow. Sobbing and frantic, the lad fluttered his handkerchief. As though in answer a bugle-call rang echoing down to them.
You'd hardly imagine how clean and light the air tasted. "Of course, with four inches of lead in your boot soles, and your head in a copper knob the size of a football, and been thirty-five minutes under water, you don't break any records running. I ran like a ploughboy going to work.
Intelligence agreed, and entered at once into the ploughboy's head. As soon as the ploughboy felt that he had intelligence in his head, he began to think: "Why must I follow the plough to the day of my death? I can go somewhere else and make my fortune more easily." He left off ploughing, put up the plough, and drove home.
The day was passed in visiting the plantation, and in a very few hours the young man had gained my full confidence. I recommended my interests and the negroes to his care; and the same evening his father and myself went on board the Ploughboy steamer, which was to convey us to the residence of the Ménous.
Why, the harm is already beginning! And you may be quite sure that nobody who cares for you is going to see you turn into a ploughboy." They produced some lunch presently and Abel enjoyed the good fare. For a time they pressed him no more, but when the meal was taken, let him show them places of interest. While Estelle visited the farm with him and heard all about his work, Mr.
Beside the road we saw a ploughboy straddle whistling on a stile, and he had the merit of being not only a ploughboy but a Gainsborough. Beyond the stile, across the level velvet of a meadow, a footpath wandered like a streak drawn by a finger over a surface of fine plush. We followed it from field to field and from stile to stile; it was all adorably the way to church.
Stephenson said, “he was sure they would appreciate his feelings when he told them, that when he first began railway business his hair was black, although it was now grey; and that he began his life’s labour as but a poor ploughboy. About thirty years since, he had applied himself to the study of how to generate high velocities by mechanical means.
"An ignorant booby! a ploughboy! a lout who has neither the manners of a gentleman nor the education of a day-laborer." "Yes, you may well say such things of him now," said she with her eyes flashing, "when his back is turned. You would not say so if he were here. But he yes, if he were here he would tell you what he thinks of you, for he is a gentleman, and not a coward." Angry as he was, Mr.
I have no false pride, as many men of high lineage like my own have, and, in default of better company, will hob and nob with a ploughboy or a private soldier just as readily as with the first noble in the land. My people were not a little anxious regarding me, by the time I returned to Carlow, and the landlord was very much afraid, he said, that the highwaymen had gotten hold of me.
Busy workmen pass to and fro, lithe men, quick of step and motion, who come from Leeds, or some similar manufacturing town, and whose very step distinguishes them in a moment from the agricultural labourer. A sturdy ploughboy comes up with a piece of iron on his shoulder; it does not look large, but it is as much as he can carry.
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