As soon as the last firework has expired, the white oxen are again yoked to the car, and it is drawn away.
But the sheep and oxen which are to eat the hay, can not be kept in one country, while the grass which they feed upon grows in another.
Why, the oxen and cows, when they are fat and ready for market, walk off in droves to Boston, to be killed.
When the thermometer is from thirty to thirty-six degrees below zero, horses and oxen are all covered with a white frost, so you cannot tell a black horse or ox from a white one; nor can you tell young men from old ones.
Whatever power drew it, was hidden from my sight; but the motion of the cart made me half expect to see a yoke of tiny oxen turn the corner.
He bases his deductions principally on the difference found to exist in the quantity of water contained in the flesh of oxen of the Argentine Republic in comparison with that found among cattle of Northern Germany.
Thus, it has been observed in the Tyrol that the geographical distribution of races of oxen corresponds with that of varieties of the human race.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Uzzah was instantly killed for trying to steady the ark in transit, "for the oxen shook it.
The king replied that the best of the sheep and of the oxen were reserved "to sacrifice unto the Lord.
Bowls of this are placed on the ground in the sheds where the women prepare farinha; it is generally done carelessly, but sometimes intentionally through spite when stray oxen devastate the plantations of the poorer people.
The oxen however, though small, were sleek and fat, and the district most promising for agricultural and pastoral employments.
People spoke of several heiresses in the neighbourhood whose wealth was reckoned in oxen and slaves; a dozen slaves and a few hundred head of cattle being considered a great fortune.
It was a great open space without houses, filled with carts, and oxen rolling in the dust, in company with a mob of Russian and Polish peasants, all sleeping together in the sun, in a temperature of more than 90 deg.
The bride's price is paid on the spot by the wooer, and a horse and two oxen are reckoned equivalent to a couple of cows.
As all these nomades are exclusively engaged in rearing cattle, our curiosity was greatly excited by the prodigious herds of camels, horses, and oxen that covered the plain.
Herds of horses, camels, and oxen spotted all the surface of the steppe, and bespoke the wealth of the hordes to which they belonged.
Nor must we allow ourselves to imagine that sledging is a very safe mode of carriage; the snow-storms cause great disasters, and if the winter be at all rigorous, an enormous number of draught oxen are lost.
And wherefore did Taxiles, sacrificing to the gods to whom he was not in the habit of sacrificing, send over three thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep as victims?
Let the oxenwork merrily; let the man work merrily; let the plough move merrily!
In the evening, when the red horses are taken away from the corn-mill of the sky and white oxen are yoked in their place, they came to a stable where some horses were feeding.
Among the objects inserted to give life to the scene, the artist has placed in the foreground a country waggon with oxen yoked to it, in primitive fashion.
On the march in war-time this system of halting the oxen because they are hot, and the men because they want to drink coffee at every farm, is neither very rapid nor very practical.
The skirmishers came back at a gallop, and a man arrived to hasten the advance of the naval gun, the oxen of which were almost trotting already.
Finally, we heap up pell-mell in open cattle-vans, mules and horses in some, oxen in another.
The soil over which we pass is bare and sandy, of a uniform grayish-yellow tint, and produces nothing but short, coarse grass, which serves as fodder for the oxen and horses.
A hundred sheep and five fat oxen were to be furnished by this gentlemen to complete my commissariat supplies.
The bleaching bones of horses, mules, and oxen whitened every mile of it, and the very genius of desolation seemed to brood over the landscape.
They usually consisted of from ten to twenty wagons each, with from eight to twelve pairs of mules or yokes of oxen to each wagon.
They required sometimes a score of oxen to draw them, and were carried on a sort of wain, which in that deep country is expressly called a tugg.
They are sitting on a seat overlooking theoxen in the wagon front.
To Gefion’s car the champions bright Yoked themselves, changed to oxen white: The grove far from the hills they drew, And fixed it midst the ocean blue.
When Hercules was driving home the oxen of Geryon, Cacus stole part of the cattle, while the hero slept.
The oxen were guarded by the giant Eurytion and his two-headed dog, but Hercules killed the giant and his dog and brought away the oxen in safety to Eurystheus.
He then drove into the cave the sheep and goats to be milked, and, entering, rolled to the cave's mouth an enormous rock, that twenty oxen could not draw.
Hence they placed in it the Isles of the Blest, the ruddy Isle Erythea, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the Isle of the Hesperides.
Just as he turned away from the stream, he saw a yoke of oxen standing a little way off.
The horses were then knee-haltered, and they and the oxen were turned out to feed till night.
A little naked boy marched at the head of the oxen as their guide, and they were driven by a Hottentot, armed with a tremendous whip of immense length, made of plaited hide fastened to the top of a bamboo pole.
The horses neighed, and theoxen lowed; The sheep's "Bleat, bleat!
About the mangeroxen lay, Bending a wide-eyed gaze Upon the little new-born Babe, Half worship, half amaze.
The march was conducted silently for some distance, but no sooner did the soldiers break out into shrieks and yells than the oxen grew frightened and wildly rushed hither and thither.
This was soon done, and then the faggots were kindled by a burning torch, and the oxen were driven up a low ridge which stretched before the pass.
Many of the oxen fell and died, and when this happened the wearied men stretched themselves on their still warm bodies, and closed their eyes for a short space.
But that very night Hannibal ordered one of his generals to fell some trees and split them into faggots, which were to be piled close to where two thousand oxen were tethered outside the camp.
You are right; it is oxen that carry your Ark of the Covenant--fat oxen.
I cannot help thinking there is a profound lesson in the Bible story of the oxen who, unguided, bore safely the Ark of the Covenant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oxen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
