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Sentence Examples Of course, I would miss the oxen and the goats, too, but I shared a very special connection with the equines. Most farmers have two oxen or buffalo for wet rice cultivation, a hoe, and a cart. I have a lad driving the oxen with a goad, who is now hoarse because of the cold and from shouting. The waggon stood ready, and Osred scratched the ears of one of the yoked oxen as he waited. Quite often, the yoked oxen are nowhere in sight, and there is only a tractor drawing a mechanised plough across the irrigated land. A team of oxen at ploughing time was vital and a village might club together to buy one or two and then use them on a rota basis. To this machine four miserable garrons, with perhaps a pair of oxen, were yoked abreast. Soils that were tilled by oxen for centuries have responded with increased yields from tractor-powered plowing. There were sheep and goat herders carrying long guide sticks, men plowing with oxen or leading camels to market. The demanding bellow of a team of oxen, coupled with the shouts of their teamster startled them in to moving again. The story goes that before the advent of trains, the Lambanis travelled with their oxen and cattle from village to village carrying salt. There was a crude, wooden cart pulled by two oxen, whose nodding heads kept rhythm with the gay fringes on their horns. Carts pulled by malnourished oxen and bicycles were the main modes of transportation. For example, arable agriculture on the demesne centred on the use of oxen ploughteams and their complement of manpower. I pulled on Jonathan's arm, urging him to stop the oxen in the their slow plodding steps. The Chillingham herd is believed to be related to prehistoric auroch oxen, which once grazed across northern Europe. The ones of more recent date were from wild oxen that had lived as neighbors of domestic herds then kept in Britain. It says they aren't oxen at all, and aren't really even related to bison, but more closely to goats and sheep. After harvesting the crop, the plants were trodden beneath the feet of horses, cattle or oxen to remove the grain from the ear. Defenders of Wildlife warns that drilling will likely disturb the historic birthing grounds of oxen and caribou, resulting in lower birthrates. Show More Sentences We set off in an open cart drawn by four whip-scarred little oxen and piled high with equipment and provisions. I outspanned on what is now Market Square and let the oxen graze there whilst I walked up to where my Aunt lay ill in a tent. In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing. Wolves primarily hunt in packs for large prey such as moose, elk, bison, musk oxen, and reindeer. A thief steals the oxen and, hearing the thumbling's angry voice, takes him to be a ghost. Growing up in the platteland I had hours of fun making and baking clay oxen. What entered now was the sound of the hums and moans of everyday life, the quiet laugher, the mockery, the sound of horses and oxen. Later, the king sent a herd of oxen to trample his enemy, but the cattle took care not to hurt Zoroaster. He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath. These carts had heavy solid wheels, and were initially pulled by oxen and onagers. I've butchered leg joints with a monstrous, cleaver-like knife more suited for bludgeoning oxen than fine dicing a brunoise. Men don't put the oxen to the yoke, because it is believed that even if girded with belts the ox ungirds itself. But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live. A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly. Sometime later the boy would take the team of horses or oxen and begin to draw the wood up into the broad dooryard. Ox-wagon rides were provided on a historic wagon pulled by a team of Nguni oxen from the University of Fort Hare's animal traction unit. We were invited to stay in people's houses, our bikes stabled with the oxen and sheep. Hauling 4 or 5 logs at a time over greased skid roads, the oxen muscled the timber down to the beach. He ignored the oxen like they did not exist and treated the goat kids like they were young colts. Not only do politicians require hides as thick as oxen, we expect them to have their constitution as well. Show More Sentences The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them. The forests supported tigers, elephants, wild boar, oxen, and deer, as well as wildfowl. If you look closely, the oxen seem to be Texas longhorn steers, a breed that Mongols might have appreciated, but never saw. How about paying some deadbeat dads to slaughter a herd of oxen and throw those fabulous thighbones on the barbie? The country work consists of harvesting and plowing, raising cattle, chickens, horses, and oxen. The soft, nutritious substance found in the internal cavities of animal bones, especially the shin bones of oxen and calves. But in reality, Husk was going to further alter the cows into the guise of missing oxen, receiving bounties without the hard labor. Although there were originally 22 oxen, 3 animals died during the year, so the sample size varies slightly between experiments. Goats, oxen and others wandered listlessly amongst the scattered waste and detritus. Our cannon, baggage and sick, were drawn by Mexican oxen, in Mexican carts. The shoulder blades of oxen or cattle were used as shovels to clear away the stones. It is really heartbreaking to see flocks of buffaloes and oxen being taken to slaughterhouses tied together with ropes around their noses. In tune with the tradition of worshipping nature, the Kanuma festival is dedicated entirely to cows and oxen. The horn I will refer to is primarily that which grows on the heads of cattle or oxen. He rode alone before two large waggons, covered over with tarpaulins stretched on tall arches, pulled by double yokes of oxen. The average farm had poultry, pigs, and livestock, used oxen as draught animals, and would, in the eighteenth century, acquire horses. Households commonly raise cows, pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys and chickens, geese and ducks, while oxen and horses are work animals. Behind him, drawn by two milky oxen, was a cart laid with cloth of purple. In the space of only a generation, the family had gone from the world of oxen and arranged marriages to the world of cell phones and multicultural love matches. Always interested in the animal mysteries of China, Texier has created bronzes similar to ancient Chinese sculptures, where hippos or oxen carry incense burners on their back. Show More Sentences As the column filed across the vast tableland, sharp reports of rifle fire could be heard from the rear as the trailing company shot horses and oxen too weak to continue. The only noise was the snorting of oxen as they pulled against the yoke. Donkeys, mules, oxen, and water buffalo carry loads, as do the offspring of the temperamental yaks, which are kept only to crossbreed with cattle. The wagoners were terrified and whipped the oxen into charging. Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough. His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession. He was awakened in the morning by a loud blast from an oxen horn. The Sidamo, who have a highly developed agriculture including ploughing with oxen and terracing of fields, produce the famous Ethiopian coffee of their name. The beef cows and oxen were kept in the pasture further from the cottage. He decorated his Christmas cards with totemic animals copied from Aboriginal rock galleries, not sheep and oxen kneeling in prayer around a manger. For example, ploughs, which required the use of oxen, brought men more centrally into agriculture, and on mission stations men were encouraged to work the fields. Tools like the oxen plow, railroads, electricity, automobiles, planes, cell phones, and the web, have all in one way or another been used for good and evil purposes. It was an old-fashioned farm that used oxen to plough the fields. How else could fifty serfs use a handful of oxen to plow their fields? It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals. The lack of power for fieldwork hampered nineteenth-century agriculture, although the replacement of oxen with horses improved the situation for most farmers. A land that is home to walruses, seals, foxes, wolves, oxen, polar bears, and where six million birds fly in for summer, can hardly be called forbidden. Apparently, Irish cows are not Irish either, but relations of the first domesticated wild oxen to be brought to this part of the world from the east by the first farmers. A yoke is a heavy wooden frame or oxbow used to harness a team of oxen. When crops were in the ground, they were pastured outside of the village and tended by herders, while the working oxen, horses, and milk cows were kept nearby. Show More Sentences If a farmer ploughing his field encounters a boulder, he unharnesses his oxen from the plough and rips the boulder from the ground and moves it aside. The villein, halfslave as he was in some respects, held lands of his own which he tilled on those days of the year when his lord had no claim upon him or his oxen. Along with camels, pigeons, donkeys, oxen, canaries, cats and dogs, the memorial remembers the eight million horses killed in the Great War alone. Horses and oxen could be attached to sleighs, carioles, fledges, and the like, to bring them long distances over the frozen waterways and icy ground. Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat. He separated the calf from the other oxen and kept it among the milk cows. Collagen hydrolysate is a protein that helps regenerate and synthesize the cartilage in humans and animals, and supplements come from pigs, cows, oxen, chickens or sheep. Crossing the Continental Divide in midnight sunlight, we will encounter grizzlies, wolves, Dall sheep, caribou, musk oxen, and an astonishing variety of Arctic birds. The oxen are represented by paired trestles, one of steel, the other wood. Horse and oxen were scared out of their wits by the new engines. It shows a pair of yoked oxen driving the wheel via a sakia gear, which is here for the first time attested, too. The builders placed the bones of deer and oxen in the bottom of the ditch, as well as some worked flint tools. We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered. Here the same four kinds are mentioned... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen. Kvigr walked the oxen cart between the huts. There were many markings on each of the huts. They sell very numerous droves of oxen yearly to England, and therefore cannot be supposed to want beef at home. In August, the weather is pleasant, musk oxen are abundant and very stalkable, the fur is excellent, and the meat is first-rate. Just about the only creatures living on the barren terrain year-round are musk oxen and small birds. The changes are similar to ones seen in other warm-blooded mammals living in Arctic conditions, such as reindeer and musk oxen. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. Show More Sentences And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. The rich enamel'd meads, the irriguous streams, the lowing oxen and the battening sheep, all form a scene that is truly picturesque. He also had a tail like an oxen tail only with a razor sharp bard that he used in conflict to stab or slice his victims. Mosses, lichens, and scanty bushes around the coasts serve as food to the deer and musk oxen, which in turn are hunted by the polar bear. Most ploughing was done with a heavy wooden plough with an iron coulter, pulled by oxen, who were more effective and cheaper to feed than horses. Then the earth in the boats was gradually taken away so that the boats floated much higher and the oxen were lifted off the river bottom. Ards may be drawn by oxen, water buffalo, donkeys, camels, or other animals. The facility, about an hour south of Anchorage, hosts bears, moose, and musk oxen too. After reaching the Crimean town of Sudak, William continued his trek with oxen and carts. They studied the bezoar stones in the numbles of oxen and preached cracked doctrines which, unchecked, might unleash mischief in the world. Sometimes he is on foot but mostly he travels with a cart, the Karrig an Ankou, drawn by two oxen and a lean horse. Orban's giant cannon was said to have been accompanied by a crew of 60 oxen and over 400 men. Heeding these omens, the Tatars buried him as a hero, killing thirty oxen in his name. They farmed grain and millet as their cereal crops, grew flax, and raised oxen, pigs, sheep and horses. At the death of Elizabeth Jenison in 1605, the farm stock inventory included 50 oxen besides cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and corn. Mention musk oxen to most people in the lower 48 states, and their questioning eyebrows belie the fact they know little about this cousin to sheep and goats. We took turns watching this game of Pleistocene soccer through the spotting scopes, and I thought about musk oxen in both my inner and outer worlds. Horses took over from oxen as the main providers of traction, new ideas on crop rotation were developed and the growing of crops for winter fodder gained ground. Show More Sentences In some cases, animal skulls, particularly oxen but also pig, were buried in human graves, a practice that was also found earlier in Roman Britain. On 18 August, five cannon brought down from Edinburgh Castle to the Netherbow Port at St Mary's Wynd for the invasion set off towards England dragged by borrowed oxen. These woods were a surviving fragment of the ancient Caledonian Forest, in which the oxen abounded at least till 1571 and probably until the building of the new house. And he made a scourge of smale cordes, and drave them all out off the temple, bothe shepe and oxen, and powred doune the changers money, and overthrue their tables. This bridge was made of boats secured by iron chains which were attached to eight different cast iron statues located on each river bank, cast in the shape of recumbent oxen. He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. During Kublai's reign, the Yuan communication system consisted of some 1,400 postal stations, which used 50,000 horses, 8,400 oxen, 6,700 mules, 4,000 carts, and 6,000 boats. Given abundant funds and materials, the Hungarian engineer built the gun within three months at Edirne, from which it was dragged by sixty oxen to Constantinople. If oxen were used to power 16 of these machines, and a few people's labour was used to feed them, they could produce as much work as 750 people did formerly. It had the advantage of being able to be pulled by one or two oxen compared to the six or eight needed by the heavy wheeled northern European plough. English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil. Many oxen are used worldwide, especially in developing countries. It required greater animal power and promoted the use of teams of oxen. It is currently pitching for a Government grant to create its own 40-seater cabaret-style cinema in a barn at Oxen Park. Oxen are yoked to the plough, donkeys carry the harvest from field to village, and cows and sheep trample the grain on the threshing floor. The years like Great Black Oxen tread the world And God the herdsman goads them on behind. Black Oxen is a reminder of the healthy benefits of cynicism, and in retrospect served as an early warning to an ebullient age. Oxen were a common beast of burden during biblical times, and I believe that the sledges were probably drawn by those beasts, either individually or in small teams. There is evidence that Oxen were used as draught animals, domesticated dogs were common, horses were rarer and probably status symbols. Oxen and horses used at the mill were watered from the pond nearby. Examples from Classical Literature We are like horses in a manege, or oxen or dogs taught to draw the plough, or be harnessed to a carriage. They held about five acres, but provided no oxen for the manorial plough-team. I was soon out of the cultivated basin of the Allier, and away from the ploughing oxen and such-like sights of the country. I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough. A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year. A farmer told me that while unyoking his oxen, a lion made a plunge and killed two outright by breaking their spine. Well, do you remember licking a young fellow there for jerking the roof log out of the hotel with your masting team of oxen? Juan and Lupe often watch the wheels of the huller as they turn, moved by patient oxen. We were told he should come this day in a wagon drawn by oxen, and here he is! Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable. Forthwith they yoked their oxen and mules and gathered together before the city. Menschell states that 44 persons were afflicted with anthrax after eating the flesh of oxen affected with carbuncular fever. Then the inspanning, the yoking up of the oxen again, and the start once more. During this conversation, Beechnut had been busily employed in yoking up the oxen. The eight oxen, as Mr Seebohm has shown, are the key to the whole system of the carucate and the bovate. As if it were good for the oxen, and some terebinthine or other medicinal quality ascended into their nostrils. The teamster arrives with oxen in full steam, and rimy with frozen breath about their indignant nostrils. Here were collected some two hundred waggons, stopped by loss of all their oxen from rinderpest. It will take us a good hour to arrive there, and then we will unyoke the oxen. Few horses or oxen were seen here, most of the cartage being done on two-wheeled trucks by men, women, and boys. Show More Sentences They will not castrate cattle even through their servants, but sell the young bulls and buy oxen. Thus the boor is put before us as a tenant with a house and a yardland or virgate, and two plough oxen. Below it lay the Plaza with its flagpole, its hitching racks for horses and oxen. There the boys sat, hugely enjoying the situation, while the others were loading the wagon and yoking the oxen on the other side. The portage was effected by placing the batteau on wheels and yoking it up to a string of oxen. With a sudden spring from the tailboard of the wagon Bruce Gilhooley reached the yoke, fiercely goading the oxen onward. Lesser quantities may be formed also, but still they correspond to aliquot parts of the full team of eight oxen. Augeas, king of Elis, had a herd of three thousand oxen, whose stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung. He works his oxen hard, gives them enough to eat to keep them in full health and vigor, but nothing for adipose. I did not, however, understand that the oxen got their ailment from the Missourians. We were traveling with oxen, and it was our custom to let them graze for two hours at noon. With drag ropes it was moved down the hill for some distance, and then an attempt was made to inspan the oxen. Then she ordered them to inspan the waggon, and this was done quickly, for the oxen lay tied to the trek-tow. You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches. No, I permit no 'prairie schooner' to stop, even that their oxen may drink. Teams of horses and oxen are born under the Twins, and well-hung wenchers and those who bedung both sides of the wall. In 1550 oxen were employed, for the first time, in tilling the ground in the valley of Cusco. The oxen are not yet made fast to the disselboom for the night, and one of my natives is away to collect them. After that, let your men rest their poor knees and unyoke your pair of oxen. Show More Sentences She watched as he whistled to specific oxen who responded to his commands, and then waited to be inspanned. You've got a span of mules that can outpull my yoke of oxen any day. The cows and oxen stood in two rows, with their tails towards the side walls, and their heads in the middle of the shed. And Abraham toke shepe and oxen and gaue them vnto Abimelech. It's as foolish as putting a French toque on one of her oxen. The oxen had gone, and their spoor was obliterated by the fresh-fallen flakes. Like Confucius, he received the great sacrifice of oxen, sheep and pigs. The Roman jugum, or yoke of two oxen, made a complete plough. This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed, For him who farthest sends the winged reed. It seems as though Nature made a trifling mistake, and stuck the stern ornaments of a lot of prize bull-dogs on to the rumps of the oxen. For the loser he brought out a woman skilled in all manner of arts, and they valued her at four oxen. By the time they paid Krajiek for the land, and bought his horses and oxen and some old farm machinery, they had very little money left. Ambrosch had come in from the north quarter, and was watering his oxen at the tank. From it there waved a hundred tassels of pure gold, all deftly woven, and each one of them worth a hundred oxen. He slept with the old man and the two boys in the dugout barn, along with the oxen. My two oxen, which I had left at Mr. Spalding's, I traded for a horse. The villein 73 and his oxen were all housed under one roof at first. And that every man know his warrantor for men and for horses and for oxen. Then he yoked his oxen, and drew the turnip to the court, and gave it to the king. Heard the careless boy whistling while unyoking the lazy oxen. Show More Sentences He just unyoked the oxen, an' sat down under a tree, an' died there sitting up. The inhabitants, like Nabal of Carmel, are rich in sheep and oxen. After a long spell of effort, I succeeded in getting my cart righted, my oxen disentangled, and again yoked to the cart. The yoking of oxen is decidedly not matter for a flying smile to a boy. You're as like as peas in a pod to those who yoked their oxen and held west to the lands beyond the sunset. The peasants walked by the oxen, prodding them with short sticks. The ploughman upon the first appearance of it unyokes his oxen, and betakes himself with them into covert. Who ever heard of the festal oxen being tied to a cart's tail? Once it was so huge that three hundred yoke of oxen could hardly move it. Shall I to the abattoir and ask the slayer of oxen for a steak? I had stolen that pair of oxen, and I dared not drive them through brecon. We met a party of peons conveying salt on the backs of oxen to cartage. Pyrrhus declined this request, but afterward gave the oxen to another man. Bring in fodder and litter so as to have enough for your oxen and mules. A lion having taken his haunt near the place where I lived, killed all the oxen and cows, and did a great deal of other mischief, of which I heard new complaints every day. Round and round they fought, digging their heels into the ground to keep from slipping, so that you would have vowed there had been a yoke of oxen ploughing a potato-patch. And here it may be stated that on the eleventh day of his sojourn at the kraal of Zweete, those whom he sent returned with the oxen, except the three only. I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen. Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind. If the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, they can never eat their meate. Show More Sentences Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah. A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Find more words! 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