The rams made a valiant effort to meet this request, and again and again fiercely rushed at the mountain, till their horns were split and broken and they could butt no longer.
Lord, thirteen young bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year.
Balak built for Balaam seven altars, and prepares seven oxen and seven rams (Num.
Just as he spoke there was a splashing in the water, and the twenty rams solemnly swam ashore and ranged themselves in front of him.
Any man who has tried to drive rams on a hot day knows what purgatory is.
The wretched owner was constantly getting fiery letters from his neighbours: "Your blanky rams are here.
But he said, "Thank God, those cross-bred rams are drowned, anyhow.
The Thebans and all other Egyptians who worshipped the Theban god Ammon held rams to be sacred and would not sacrifice them.
Similarly at Thebes in Egypt rams were sacred and were not sacrificed.
The garrison caught the blows of his rams on reed mattresses lowered from the ramparts, and greased the drawbridges of his wooden towers so effectively that the stormers could not cross.
Earthquakes or battering rams might have demolished them; but then one would expect to find the debris lying in heaps as it fell.
There was, moreover, no time to waste in experiments, for other rams would be coming on, and there were not crabs enough to attend to them all.
It had been plainly proved that ordinary shot and shell had no effect upon this craft; but it had not been proved that she could withstand the rams of powerful ironclads.
The towers which defended the gate St. Romanus crumbled away beneath the blows of the rams and the discharges of the Ottoman artillery.
And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty.
Sidenote: 1240] Against the Polish gate day and night the battering-rams crashed and splintered, till a breach was effected by which the besiegers entered.
It remained stationary for about ten minutes, when the peculiar hissing noise of the hydraulic rams at work to push her off was heard.
After straining for some time, the piston-rod of one of the hydraulic rams gave way, and this accident put an end to the attempt to launch the great ship for this day.
Yet again another authority, Captain Pellew, says: "Rams are the arm of naval warfare to which I attach the chief importance.
The breathless excitement of the stalk and the wild thrill of exultation at the clean kill of two splendid rams were still rioting in my veins.
Of the Confederate rams there were two, commanded by trained officers formerly in the United States navy, Lieutenants Kennon and Warley.
The Confederates showed the same skill and energy in building their great ironclad rams as the men of the Union did in building the monitors which were so often pitted against them.
It was from these rams that the animals were selected which were sent into every country in the civilized world.
A circle in formed with ropes in a small field near the mansion, where the rams are introduced, and an auctioneer announces the biddings, which are frequently very spirited.
The rams to be let are exposed around the field from the first of the morning, and a ticket at the head of each pen indicates the weight of the fleece of the animal it contains.
Mr. Webb's flock then consisted of seven hundred breeding ewes, a proportionate number of lambs, and about four hundred rams of different ages.
See also Tests Testicles of rams in the rites of Attis, v.
If the forts fall, and our two rams be taken or destroyed, the defenders will still resist.
And it appears that Lord John Russell will not prevent the sailing of our monitor-rams from British ports without evidence of an intention to use them against the United States.
The Northern papers state that Mr. Seward has authorized them to publish the fact that the French Government has seized the Confederate rams building in the ports of France.
Still nothing additional from Lee's or Bragg's army; but from abroad we learn that the British Government has prevented the rams built for us from leaving the Mersey.
We have three iron-clads and rams here above the obstructions, which will probably be of no use at this trying time.
The diameter of therams is 12 inches, and the stroke 10 inches.
But the Jews made him drunk, and laid him in the bed, and changed rams with him; his they took away, and put in its place one of their own exactly like it.
Thou dost nothing at all but go away and drink, and then thou comest home and dost talk nonsense, and bringest sacks and rams with thee, and knockest down our little hut.
By autumn they attain their highest condition--the beards of the rams fully developed and their brown pelts glossy and almost uniform in colour.
Some of the old rams are very big, and it would be advisable that some be shot.
Yesterday on the Cabeza Neváda we counted 39 rams and 22 females together.
But the intruder proved to be one of the dark-brown rams of Ovis bidens that, in semi-feral state, roam these peaks.
I agree, for the natives kill off male and female alike, only a few wily old rams remain, a mere fraction of the stock which formerly existed.
When the flock is on the march, the rams always go in the van, and, being instinctively afraid of their ancient enemy the wolf, they continually raise their heads and look about them.
Only the rams have horns, and they are not twisted spirally like those of our own Sheep, but come backwards, and then curl round so that the point comes under the ear.
The same writers also recommend that the rams should be furnished with strong leathern collars.
This line of conduct irritates the wolves, who attack the foremost rams and seize them by the throat.
After the self-same manner do the Sea-rams draw the Sea-calves hid in the subterranean rocks, for by smelling they prevent the air that should come into them for refrigeration.
The authorities should employ some dependable sportsman to shoot a certain number of rams which are now in undue proportion, as the ewes with young lambs have been an easier prey to the unsparing Cypriotes.
The rocks were bare, and their cafe-au-lait colour exactly harmonised with that of the two moufflon, which I now made out to be fine rams with large and peculiar heads.
I am weary with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks and of lambs and of he-goats.
All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty.
And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
This machinery consists of two press cylinders of a peculiar construction, having solid rams accurately fitted to them.
The hydraulic oil-press is generally double; that is, it has two verticalrams placed parallel to each other, so that while one side is under pressure, the other side is being discharged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
