Anna Karenina vocabulary

Now, involuntarily it seemed, he cut more and more deeply into the soil like a plough, so that he could not be drawn out without turning aside the furrow.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in all her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand upon their hands and feet, to make the arches.

Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)

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“If I were to plow that pretty brown-haired furrow and seed it deep each day …”

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she looked at the long tracks of dust on the floor that made it look as if Jones had plowed rather than mopped it. There were linear streaks of clean floor for the furrows, and linear streaks of dust, the hillocks.