"Unploughed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pausing for a space To lift a wistful face Up to a certain window where there dreamed A little brood left motherless; and there One turned to where the unploughed fields lay bare; And others lingering passed—but one there seemed So over glad to haste, she scarce could wait To reach ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various
... now—which turn to take. What you must do, then, to find the easiest ascent, and blessedness, and your bride, and universal fame, I will tell you. Enough that I have been cheated into toil; for you let all grow unsown and unploughed as in the ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... does," said the Bull, and he died. The cultivator who then owned him was much annoyed, for there was a field still unploughed. ...
— Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II • Rudyard Kipling
... entirely destitute of trees and flooded with sunshine, many thousand graves, mostly unmarked by headstones, lie close together, resembling in appearance a corn-field which has been permitted to run to grass unploughed. Standing upon an elevated point near the summit, and looking down those acres of hillocks to where the busy laborers are engaged in putting bodies into the ground, covering them with earth, and rounding ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... thistles, and his oats full of weeds." Three logs are thrown into the fire with special ceremony; in throwing the first they say, "Gold of pleasure (a plant with yellow flowers) into the fire!" in throwing the second they say, "Weeds to the unploughed land!" but in throwing the third they cry, "Flax on my field!" The fire is said to keep the witches from the cattle.[446] According to others, it ensures that for the whole year the milk shall be "as pure as silver and as the stars in the sky, and the butter as ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer |
