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Example sentences for "oxhide"

Lexicographically close words:
oxalic; oxcart; oxen; oxeye; oxgang; oxid; oxidated; oxidation; oxidations; oxide
  1. But for us twain alone leave two swords and two spears and two shields of oxhide to grasp, that we may rush upon the arms and seize them; and then shall Pallas Athene and Zeus the counsellor enchant the wooers to their ruin.

  2. Now the backstay fashioned of an oxhide had been flung thereon; therewith I lashed together both keel and mast, and sitting thereon I was borne by the ruinous winds.

  3. Wide as an oxhide was the single eye protruding from his forehead, with seven pupils therein, which were black as a chafer.

  4. Two good thirds of an oxhide in the girdle round each one's waist, and each quadrangular clasp that closes it as thick as a man's thigh.

  5. They rode down the Oxhide under the shade of the elms which fringed its border, until they arrived at the open prairie a mile from the ranche.

  6. I have seen nearly all the other animals that live on the plains and in the timber, but have never seen wild horses, because they don't range as far east as Oxhide Creek.

  7. The chief told him that they had camped on the Oxhide for the last time; the whites had taken up all the country, and the buffalo would come there no more.

  8. He was to tell them where to go in the event of the Indians coming into Oxhide valley after the scouting party had left for the Elkhorn.

  9. While they were encamped on the Oxhide the warriors scarcely ever left the delightful place except, of course, when summoned by their chief to the hunt.

  10. The little party from the ranche arrived at the mouth of the Oxhide before the contingent from Fort Harker.

  11. I want you to tell the settlers on the Oxhide to particularly watch their girls.

  12. He was a born leader, and became one of the most prominent men on the frontier when the troublous times came with the savages, some years after the family had settled on Oxhide Creek.

  13. But leave a sword and a spear apiece for yourself and me, and a couple of oxhide shields so that we can snatch them up at any moment; Jove and Minerva will then soon quiet these people.

  14. My oxhide had become tripe, and my angarep, being covered with a mat, was some inches deep in water.

  15. Then Njal said to his head man: 'Bring hither the oxhide and put it on the bed, and watch how we lay ourselves down, so that you may know where to find our bones.

  16. But when the oxhide was pulled away they saw the three bodies fresh and whole, as they had laid them down.

  17. Yet, even granting that to be so, I think you should pardon me, "since not for sacred beast or oxhide shield.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oxhide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.