As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole saw clearly that he was an animal of tilled field and hedge-row, linked to the ploughed furrow, the frequented pasture, the lane of evening lingerings, the cultivated garden-plot.
The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our harvest-time haste, smoothing the brow of hill, hiding furrow and cog and trash in the yard.
There came an evening when Lucy, gazing idly astern at the long furrow or wake they were leaving behind them, saw a great rack of clouds building itself up in the west with amazing speed.
Three leagues across the dim, moonlit champaign ran the road, straight as a ploughman's furrow.
An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012 It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip.
The hare shall run in one furrow, and I in another, and we will begin to run from the top.
When he was outside in the field, he took him out again, and set him in a freshly cut furrow.
May our salutation be heard as is heard the worm' s hymn of thanksgiving - the worm that is cut to pieces beneath the plow, while a new springtime is dawning and the plowman draws his furrow among us worms, crushing us, that your blessings may be bestowed upon the coming generation.
The ploughshare struck against something which he fancied was a firestone, and then he saw glittering in the earth a splinter of shining metal which the plough had cut from something which gleamed brightly in the furrow.
