Oxen

Examples

• When used in the field they were dragged about by many yokes of oxen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They had generally made their escape with a team or two, sometimes a yoke of oxen with a mule or a horse in the lead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ten yokes of oxen dragging a boat with sails out of the sea in the morning with the line of the small waves breaking on the beach. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But what did thee besides watch oxen? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He made his way through the State of New York in wagons drawn by oxen to the remote and primitive township of Bayfield, in Upper Canada, on Lake Huron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These primitive waggons were drawn by oxen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We went to the beach and lay in the water and boats with sails were hauled up out of the sea by oxen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The armour of Diomede, says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus cost a hundred oxen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His artillery, two batteries and two eighteen-pounder iron guns, drawn by oxen, were placed in position at intervals along the line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed, For him who farthest sends the winged reed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lake-dwellers, on the other hand, had, in addition to the dog, which was of a medium-sized breed, oxen, goats, and sheep. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another was that old oxen and slaves should be sold off. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A little animal muscle, supplied by draft oxen, horse traction, and the like, contributed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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