Plowman Sentence Examples

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  • Thus "the great unknown" from the Oberland is the ideal character, "who illustrates how God does his work for the world and for the church through a divinely trained and spiritually illuminated layman," just as William Langland in England about the same time drew the figure of Piers Plowman.

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  • The earl's memory remained green for a long time, and in the Vision of Piers Plowman his name is linked with that of Robin Hood.

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  • The oldest mention of Robin Hood at present known occurs in the second edition - what is called the B text - of Piers the Plowman, the date of which is about 1377.

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  • These " pilgrim signs " are frequently alluded to in literature - notably in the Canterbury Tales and in Piers Plowman.

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  • But there are references which suggest its previous award in Piers Plowman and Chaucer.

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  • A broadside entitled Davy Dycars Dreame, a short and seemingly alliterative poem in the manner of Piers Plowman, brought him into trouble with the privy council, but he was dismissed with a reprimand.

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  • An interesting passage in Piers Plowman furnishes us with a proof of the extent to which these songs penetrated into England.

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  • The New English Dictionary quotes Piers Plowman as containing the earliest personification of the name.

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  • Tickets, which include a plowman's supper and quiz, cost £ 3.50 for adults and £ 2.50 for children.

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  • Stallybrass) - and for the bandit (see "Roberdes Knaues" in the Prologue of Piers the Plowman, 1.44, and the note in Warton's Hist.

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  • The woodman sang of the wild forest; the plowman sang of the fields; the shepherd sang of his sheep; and those who listened forgot about the storm and the cold weather.

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  • Tickets, which include a plowman 's supper and quiz, cost £ 3.50 for adults and £ 2.50 for children.

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  • A plowman and his great plow, now standing idle in the furrow, had in a day wrought a terrible havoc.

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