The head of the urus has been dug up in this neighbourhood, as also the palmated horns of the elk, together with the horns and skeletons of large deer, supposed to be the moose-deer.
The wildurus (Bos primigenius) was hunted but was not domesticated.
Bos primigenius); of these animals the bison appears to have been the more hardy, and seeking a more northerly range, while the urus was extremely abundant in southwestern France and the Pyrenees.
The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.
At Duernten, near Zuerich, remains of the urus are found associated with those of the hardy, straight-tusked elephant and of Merck's rhinoceros.
No, hundreds of the slavish Urus fell before their conquering sabres; and in that thought, I cease to mourn, but yet what are the lives of a thousand Urus to one true son of the Atteghei?
Remember, my countrymen," he resumed; "that the Urus call us uncivilised barbarians and robbers.
So the General of the Urus thinks we are prepared to attack him, does he?
And you, Uzden, glad I am to see you, and to have lost no time in wetting my blade in the blood of the cursedUrus for your sake.
I never think of those dreadful Urus without shuddering, and Alp is always on some hazardous expedition against them; their very name frightens me.
You cut down those vile Urus as a mower cuts corn with his sickle.
We then travelled towards the castle of the Urus at Ghelendjik, where Besin Khan, taking with him only Kiru, ordered us to proceed a day's journey, and then wait for him.
I will hasten with joy to your chieftain's aid, and we will stop theseUrus on their march.
We shall, however, have fighting enough to please you, my young friend, for think not that these Urus will lose their food quietly.
I, too, have come from Stamboul; and the Inglis are again the friends of the Sultan; and I know well they would aid our cause if the Urus did not cram their ears with lies.
Those cursedUrus are not content with our remaining quiet, but they must enter the country, and burn and destroy our villages.
My heart," exclaimed he, "has not beat so joyfully since the cursed Urus slew the last prop of my age, my only son.
The ancestors of the Urus may have been the cromlech builders, driven into the fastnesses of the lake when their country was occupied by the more powerful invaders, who erected the imperishable monuments at Tiahuanacu.
Then, about two deep notches in the huge shaft, thongs were soon tied strongly, and just below its middle were attached the bag-shaped urus skins.
Ab, clinging and raging aloft, afar out upon the limb, shouted to Hilltop to bring him the spear and the urus skins, and soon the sturdy old man was beside him.
At this time, too, Ab took lessons in making all the varied articles of elk or reindeer horn and the drinking cups from the horns of urus and aurochs.
It was a time of wild life, and of wild death, for out of the abundance much was taken; there were nightly tragedies, and the beasts of prey were as glutted as the urus or the elk which fed on the sweet grasses.
Eabani heard these words of Ishtar, he tore a limb from the celestial urus and threw it in the face of the goddess: 'Thou also I will conquer, and I will treat thee like him: I will fasten the curse upon thy sides.
If a lion decimated their flocks, or a urus of gigantic size devastated their crops, it was the king's duty to follow the example of his fabulous predecessors and to set out and overcome them.
This is not the only instance of animals which have disappeared in the course of centuries; the rulers of Nineveh were so addicted to the pursuit of the urus that they ended by exterminating it.
Even if Urus and Myasas dine together, they sit in different rows, each division by themselves.
At present, though Uru Boyas will marry with Uru Bedars and Myasa Boyas with Myasa Bedars, there is no intermarriage between Urus and Myasas, whether they be Boyas or Bedars.
The horns are alleged to be sometimes three feet long, and of immense girth; they are handed round full of strong drink at the festivals of Tibetan grandees, as the Urus horns were in Germany, according to Caesar.
If we turn to the horned cattle we shall find a confirmation of the view that there was not an entire break between the Turbiferous and Areniferous fauna for the Urus (Bos primigenius) occurs in both.
For instance, the Augsburg picture of the Urus is correct, but Herberstein's, which also is said to represent the Urus, is obviously that of a Bison.
Caesar, who was not a big game hunter and probably never saw either, has given under the name Urus a description which evidently mixes up the characters of both.
The most numerous and largest specimens of the Urus I have obtained from near Isleham: the best preserved Beaver bones from Burwell.
There is not in the Fens any continuous record of what took place between the age in which the Little Downham Rhinoceros was buried in the gravel and that in which the Neolithic hunters poleaxed the Urus in the peat near Burwell.
Some confusion has arisen as to the description and the names of the Urus and the Bison.
The bird was presented to Genghis Khan by Urus with great ceremony, as an act of submission and homage.
Genghis Khan received such a present as this from a chieftain named Urus Inal, who was among those that yielded to his sway in the country of the Irtish, after the battle at which Tukta Bey was defeated and killed.
There is no doubt that the hippopotamus and the urus were the two largest animals known to the Jews, and it is probably on that account that the former received the name of Behemoth.
The enormous size of the horns of an ox which was in all probability the Urus is mentioned by another writer, who also alludes to their use as drinking vessels.
The question now arises, What is the distinction between the ancientUrus and our modern cattle?
In other words, they were subsequent to the last great physical changes of Europe, and were contemporaries of the urus and bison, not of the Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, and Hyaena spelaea.
Uhlmann recognised those of the following animals:--Urus (a large variety of horned cattle) and the small marsh cow.
Among the osseous remains are portions of a skull of the urus with both horn-cores attached.
This discovery is of considerable zoological value, since it proves that the urus was living in Britain in a wild state as late as the Bronze Age.
The great wild oxen, theurus and bison, disappeared from the neighbourhood altogether.
The urus had avenged himself especially on the horse, which was lying dead beside the knight; as for Sir de Lorche, he was not seriously injured.
Footnote 58: The bison of Pliny; the urus of Caesar.
In fact, the most interesting and also the most perilous moment was coming, because the huntsmen had met a herd ofurus and bisons.
The road was laid out through a large forest, in which there was heard toward sunset, the roaring of the urus and of the bison, and during the night the eyes of wolves were seen shining behind the thick hazelnut trees.
The princess and Jurandowna did not dismount, because the prince would not allow them to do so, on account of the peril from urus and bisons; it was easier to escape the fury of these fierce beasts on horseback than on foot.
On arriving, the camels were seized by the Urus Sugay, a clan of the Habr Gerhajis.
Yet there is no doubt of the identity of a species found abundantly in Britain in the Tertiary deposits, and named by Owen Bos primigenius, with the Urus of Caesar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
