| 单词 | oxen |
| 例句 | From the stable the pair of oxen bellowed and rolled their eyes in terror. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z As we came to a side road I saw a team of oxen hitched to a broken-down wagon, the ragged driver dozing on the seat beneath the shade of a clump of trees. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As they came toward us, I began to turn the oxen to the side of the road so they could pass. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even horses or mules or oxen could cross the moonscape. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked alongside the wagon guiding the oxen and keeping them moving when they slowed down. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As the group trekked to the start of the River of Doubt, they passed by grave sites and the sun-bleached skeletons of oxen and mules from Rondon’s previous trips along the road. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z With a nod, Wilf goes and reseats himself on the cart and snaps the reins on his oxen. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They had the oxen yoked to a sled, which was already half loaded with stones, and were digging away at more stones buried in a newly cleared field. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It is not like a man’s driving a herd of oxen or working a piece of machinery, the whole mechanism of which he can learn in a short time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I slapped the oxen on their rumps as if I hadn’t any worries about who was standing in the middle of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are blue and wrap me gently in their glow; or green and soothing like oxen eyes in the night; but there are others, yellow and red, that sear me with their intensity. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “In my country, oxen pull plows, not men,” Gabriel replied, tilting his hat back. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Six of the monsters were yoked like oxen, pulling a two-story-tall siege tower fitted with a giant scorpion ballista. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We woke up before the sun, hitched the oxen to the wagon, herded the cattle out of the Platt’s pasture where they had spent the night, and started off again on the road toward Peekskill. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People, oxen, and carts jostled one another in the narrow streets; the houses were so close together that Tree-ear wondered how their residents could breathe. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He snaps the oxen a bit harder this time and I can feel us moving along faster–faster than I could walk at least. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The oxen wouldn’t have strayed; oxen don’t wander when they’re attached to a heavy wagon. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he got the oxen and took them to Mycenae. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “So do husbands, I suspect. By then it is too late, for they are yoked to each other like oxen for the long haul.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “He has married. He has someone to sew and cook for him. But I can still help him with the oxen.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see carts up ahead on the left, a whole string of ’em, pulled by oxen and by horses, disappearing round a bend. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Utgardaloki clapped his hands, and a long wooden trough was brought in, with all manner of roasted animals in it: geese and oxen and sheep, goats and rabbits and deer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I thought them all hateful to have allowed themselves to be worked like oxen, and even more shameful to try to pretend that things were not as bad as they were. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Father tied the horse to the back of the wagon and walked along beside me to help manage the oxen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly but surely the oxen and horses start moving forward again, pulling away from us, people still looking back but at least getting farther away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The farm wagon stood outside; the patient oxen, oblivious to how comically out of place they looked on a city street, chewed their cuds contentedly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “At night it will be, anyway. I hope we beat it home. I don’t want to travel twenty miles with the oxen slipping and sliding up and down every hill.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The oxen were being unharnessed, the carts unloaded, while the Brave Companions clamored for drink and the curious gathered around the caged bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There, Pindar says, Idas, made angry in some way about his oxen, stabbed and killed Castor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I belted the oxen across their rumps with my stick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many times, when we play hide-and-seek to keep his little sisters entertained, I won’t come out of my hiding place when I hear “Ally ally oxen free!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My feet were wet and cold, and I was still hungry—biscuits and beer don’t make much of a lunch when you’re working oxen along. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We staked the oxen out in a bit of grazing common near the pens and went into the tavern for some supper. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And now where you have roads of asphalt for the passage of rubber tires, then the roads were of crushed stone for the passage of oxen, and mule teams, and horse-drawn wagons. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace wondered if the woman’s cart and oxen were double-parked outside. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The horse was taking the matter sensibly, not struggling, seeming to understand that the oxen being tackled would pull him out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Back of the main column the baggage train followed: mules, j horses, oxen, a mile of wayns and carts laden with food, fodder, tents, and other provisions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I unhitched the oxen, pitched them some hay, and went into the house myself. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the price of twenty oxen for her, kept her as kindly in his house as his own wife, though, for the sake of peace, he never touched her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Before her eyes she found the lusty suitors casting dice inside the gate, at ease on hides of oxen—oxen they had killed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the great carts followed, rumbling with their spiked wooden wheels, drawn by horses or slow white oxen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s critical that we stay within the weight limit, or our oxen will be overtaxed. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Wilf snaps the reins on his oxen but keeps them slower than the rest, letting a distance open between us and everyone else. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Her heart thrilled to see these wondrous oxen of the north. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers harshly whip their cows and oxen to pull the wagons faster. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the heads of animals— boars, crocodiles, elephants, oxen, birds. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled the wagon’s long brake lever and whoa-ed the oxen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Make way, you Milk Men, make way for the Mother of Dragons," Jhogo cried, and the Qartheen moved aside, though perhaps the oxen had more to do with that than his voice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were hungry and they killed the sacred oxen. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Leandro, the engineer, joked that he and Manolo could have mashed at least a ton of sugarcane by now if they’d been rigged up with a harness like a team of oxen. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What with the oxen balking so much we were two hours behind schedule. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z More than half of the pack mules and oxen died from exhaustion and starvation—the loads were too heavy and there wasn’t enough grass for them to eat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And then, in the first light, he heard the creak of a wagon, and he crouched beside the road and watched a heavy two-wheeled cart go by, drawn by slouching oxen. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z We said good-bye to everybody, hitched up the oxen and pulled out of the yard onto the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had cost the same price as ninety oxen, but, as Guenever had already read it seven times, it was no longer exciting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped the oxen up and walked forward a few paces. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow was almost a foot deep and already the oxen were having trouble on the hills, slipping and stumbling when their hooves would strike an icy patch or a pothole hidden beneath the snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the mountains and the pines turned into blue oxen, blue dogs, and blue people standing, the old couple asked me to spend the night in the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor said he didn’t mind if he did, and he proceeded to devour two of the oxen all by himself, one after the other, leaving nothing but clean-picked bones. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The wagon is broken in the mud, the oxen would not move, the soldiers needed Pa to help them fix the wagon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the most beautiful oxen in the world and very much prized by the Sun. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must find your own. You could look in the field of the oxen for it. Nice big maggots in the ox dung, after all. Bring whatever you want from there.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Govinda said: 'You speak thus, my friend, and yet you know that Siddhartha is no driver of oxen and a Samana is no drunkard. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that some of the Amish, being slow to change their ways, used to plow with mules or oxen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “It was meant to feed us for several days. I do not think I have ever seen even a giant eat two of my oxen at once before.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The busyness that went on in the island, the bee-keeping and the rook-scaring and the ploughing with oxen: for these you must look in the Lutterell Psalter, where they are beautifully drawn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The oxen were more willing to pull than they had been the day before. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Daenerys had led him to the pit herself and shut him up inside with several oxen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The chief danger that threatened them, he said, was that they might do some injury to the oxen of the Sun when they reached the island where they lived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We both lurch forward a little bit as Wilf snaps the rein on his oxen. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The oxen rolled their eyes, floundering, and mooed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel all mixed up, the way soil must feel after the oxen come through, plowing it, turning it inside out, getting it ready for planting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On horseback you could ride it in a day, but we’d have not only the cattle but the wagon drawn by oxen with us. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To feed them, he would need to bring carts and wagons, and draft animals to haul them— horses, oxen, dogs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When they returned, the wagon would be emptied of all its gold and burned, sometimes by people of Hrothgar’s own tribe, though usually by others, and the oxen and horses would be dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to do; mostly I stayed at the head of the oxen and kept them moving. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The oxen were balking at walking in that blowing snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pull up the oxen,” the man with the lantern shouted. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had reclined too long on satin cushions, letting oxen bear her hither and yon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The price of one of Min’s vases—two oxen, a horse, and your first-born son!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We pulled the oxen through the gate and drove them into the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Boys and dogs drive the horses and oxen to the river and break through the ice to let them drink. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he was home, he was usually in the fields all day with Alfonso’s oxen, plowing or planting or harvesting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On I went, belting the oxen when they slowed down. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The oxen became white and wet and they kept shaking their heads to throw the snow off. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up my stick, banged the oxen on their rumps and they heaved and grunted and started off. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I went on a couple of yards ahead of the oxen to feel out the road, while Father wrestled with them alone. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back I could just make out the blade lumpy shapes of the oxen and the cart, with Father fighting along at their heads. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Argos was too far away for her to walk there and they had no horses or oxen to draw her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the terrain was not too rocky or hilly, you might be part of a group of slaves who drove teams of oxen to draw plows across the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Halting the oxen, she crept over to the bushes and peered into them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Nothing grew; no seed sprang up; in vain the oxen drew the plowshare through the furrows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We had almost no money between us, but that morning, we went to see a local trader and made a deal to sell him two of the regent’s prize oxen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t horses, they were oxen and they just plain didn’t move fast. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They who had come by oxen and mule team and by walking long distances. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They pushed at the wheels with long oak poles and slashed at the oxen till their backs were crosshatched with bleeding welts and their noses ran pink foam. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And, turning to me: “Now. Let us begin.” or the next several hours of that day I labored over a Greek legal dispute regarding the ownership of twenty-five oxen ravaged by the mange. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ox carts, oxen, and horses had all vanished horn the yard, but the bear cage was still there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He couldn’t read the text, but it had lots of illustrations: scythes, different plants, a picture of the sun, a team of oxen pulling a cart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had outdistanced his supply lines, left food and forage days behind with all his wagons and mules and oxen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I was one of the cows,” my mother would later say, “one of the oxen.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z North of the village was the commons, where we peasants grazed our own oxen and sheep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We passed lots of Basques with oxen, or cattle, hauling carts along the road, and nice farmhouses, low roofs, and all white-plastered. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A man driving an empty cart pulled by a pair of oxen regards us from a little side path, his mouth left hanging open like he forgot to close it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They came walking or riding, oxen dragging their wagonloads of shields, spears, tents, clothes, food. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “We let ourselves be pushed around like a bunch of stupid oxen. Why don’t we do something?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After the rains had come and made the ground wet, the people would prepare their oxen for ploughing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A woman named Rebecca was dressed as the farmer’s wife; there were oxen and lambs to pet, horses, a blacksmith and a woman fiddling away on an ancient violin. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z An Indonesian rice farmer uses oxen and a wooden plough to work the land. The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... 2011-07-30T23:06:21Z He kept rotting animals in his studio, including whole sides of hanging oxen and beef that he regularly drenched, or freshened, with blood—which made him unpopular with neighbors. ‘Chaim Soutine: Flesh’ Review: Bloody, Brilliant Still Lifes 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But a Londoner knows what happens in the Square after dark, when it becomes jampacked with roistering out-of-town youths who wheel and butt around the place, for all the world like spiflicated musk oxen. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z He switched from work horses to oxen that are more docile. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z It was oxen and fish and other proteins, cooked on a platform of green twigs and branches over a trench in the ground. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z And, to Gladstone, the sea and oxen were never of the same colour. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z The kitchen's fireplace is thought to be the biggest in the UK – large enough to roast two oxen side by side.• This year's hot beds 2011-01-01T00:06:06Z The venture brought new life to the economically depressed area, employing hundreds of quarrymen, squarers, sled men, stone cutters and cart drivers, who guided oxen trains. Michelangelo's unrealized marble dream comes true in Italian quarry 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Dressed in ornate robes and colorful headdresses, the oxen ate 85% of the rice and beans on offer and 90% of the corn in decorated bowls - indicating a bountiful harvest. Cambodia's royal oxen predict plentiful rice harvest amid EU tariffs 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The pair also recounted stories from set in Austria, laughing about how often Andrews found herself on top of a cart with camera equipment being hauled up a mountain by oxen. TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The Oktoberfest tents serve local delicacies such as thirst-provoking oxen, pork knuckles and salty pretzels. Trip Tips: Munich's Oktoberfest stems from tradition, draws millions 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z To transport the sandstone blocks to the new federal city, skids — or what were sometimes called “stone boats” — were pulled by oxen to a wharf. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Where to Stop: Gawk at domesticated musk oxen, the Ice Age wonders of the Alaskan landscape prized for their wool, in Palmer. These Are America's Best Road Trips 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Michelangelo — or at least his reincarnated form — is a frustrated factory worker; Plato spends his time herding oxen. ‘The Tragedy of Man’ by Marcell Jankovics, Animator 2012-11-10T01:04:20Z Arctic Animal Play Day at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium SAT Enrichment treats for polar bears, musk oxen and Arctic foxes, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2012-11-15T05:59:06Z We traveled slowly over a dusty red-dirt path among the temples and passed other carts, some drawn by white oxen, each big enough for a driver and two passengers. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Oh, that giant gold, silent knight with gray flesh and the strength of 12 oxen? 'Game of Thrones' Finale Recap: Shocking Deaths and a Walk of Shame 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Across this landscape, he said, roamed bison, mammoth, rhinoceros, lions, horses, deer, bears and countless other species, including the aurochs – giant oxen 2m tall. Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: the real art underground 2011-03-17T23:00:01Z On fields bordered by cactus and aloe, campesinos gripped plows pulled by oxen or horses. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z A cart passes, drawn by two white oxen. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Observing the Sabbath 3,000 years ago was more about rest and going easy on one’s family — servants and oxen included. Unplugging on the Sabbath 2010-03-18T01:53:00Z It didn’t help matters that the British soldiers brought heaps of amenities into the field, which required many mules and oxen to lug. Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Noticing the young woman nearby as he plows a field, he worries his oxen will see how rattled he is. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Lions, weasels, rabbits, frogs, oxen, rats, cats, dogs, wolves, monkeys, ducks, and eagles serve up truths in humorous narratives. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The sensational fight between Yen and Hui begins in a courtyard, sends them bounding across the rooftops of village huts and ends in a pen of teeming, restless oxen. Dragon: The One-Armed Swordsman With a Heart 2012-11-29T15:00:15Z “Frankly, I just don’t think musk oxen have the sex appeal pandas do,” the National Zoo director, Theodore Reed, was quoted as saying in another Page 1 article by Ms. Robertson. A Brief History of Panda Diplomacy 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Last year, the Oktoberfest guests ate around 500,000 chickens, 120 oxen and an unknown number of large doughy pretzels at the festival. Beer flows as Germany kicks off Oktoberfest 2012-09-22T19:46:03Z The show’s 35 ornaments and blades are shaped like dragons, tigers, deer, birds, oxen, doughnuts and commas. Antiques: Restoring F.D.R?s Harvard Dorm, and a Rare Jade Show 2010-03-12T05:29:00Z The quaintest number, Chela, in which a farmer regales his uncomprehending oxen with his sorrows, involved a kind of yodeling. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z A cart pulled by oxen carried the Palio banner into the arena and the crowd went wild. At Siena’s Palio, 500 years of history in 90 seconds 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Clumped around the silver pipeline were musk oxen, one of the hardiest mammals on Earth in terms of their ability to withstand cold climates. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “To witness wolves hunt musk oxen in winter is so rare it’s never been captured on camera—until now,” Grylls says, over mayhem involving fur, hunger, and ice. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Two musk oxen for a pair of giant pandas. A Brief History of Panda Diplomacy 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Smith Haut Lafitte now farms organically, uses oxen in the vineyards instead of tractors to avoid compacting the soil and captures some winery CO2 emissions to reduce the global warming footprint. Centuries-old Bordeaux winemaking gets a modern twist 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The venture brought new life to the economically depressed area, employing hundreds of quarrymen, squarers, sled men, stone cutters and cart drivers, who guided oxen trains. Michelangelo's unrealized marble dream comes true in Italian quarry 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z "As le Carré said, you have to reduce an oxen to a bouillon cube," said Oldman. Gary Oldman on 'Tinker's' George Smiley 2011-12-15T20:59:05Z It’s all about dancing oxen, but more on that later. Finding Mirages in Len??is Maranhenses and Oxen in S?o Lu?s 2010-06-16T03:00:00Z But the hotel’s setting — tucked behind papaya groves with horses and oxen grazing nearby — gives it a rustic feeling. | The Crowds Swell on Mexico’s Pacific Coast 2013-12-04T16:08:38Z While she is at work, her sister manages the household, taking care of their oxen and rice farming their land for extra food. Who Made Your Clothes? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z His perfect metaphor for a Japan straddling the old world and the new: the planes he designed are pulled onto the practice field by teams of oxen. Is Hayao Miyazaki Gone With The Wind? 2013-09-02T19:29:07Z He switched from work horses to oxen that are more docile. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “You like musk oxen, but pandas can steal your heart away.” A Brief History of Panda Diplomacy 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Half a century later, in a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, Huon still uses oxen to plow his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z He wrote a book of children’s tales that celebrate a way of life rooted in isolated hamlets where even today, on windswept mountainsides, people till fields of buckwheat with yoked oxen and wooden plows. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The oxen on other teams condescendingly declared that it would be victory enough if Jang's team finished the ship challenge. The strength of "Physical: 100" is in what is has to say about our view of the perfect physique 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z His perfect metaphor for a Japan straddling the old world and the new: the planes Jiro designs are pulled onto the practice field by teams of oxen. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z In a demonstration project he calls Pleistocene Park, he’s already introduced other big herbivores adapted to cold climates: moose, Yakutian horses, Finnish reindeer, North American bison, elk, musk oxen, yaks. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z I paid $20 for 170 virtual horseshoes, which I used to unlock advanced farm animals like cows and oxen and better flora like peach trees. Video Game Review: In Zynga?s FrontierVille, Going From Forest to Family 2010-07-05T21:48:00Z When these dancers were younger, the vast beach at Nazare was littered with colorful fishing boats that were hauled in by oxen or teams of fishermen. Seaside traditions in Portugal’s Nazare 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The raw ingredient is usually transported on horseback and often crushed by the power of oxen. Rum Enthusiasts Have a New Obsession: Fresh-Cut Sugar Cane 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In fact, Manger Square was a series of semi-detached caves in 4BC and thus nativity scenes with donkeys and oxen are quite incorrect. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI – digested read 2012-11-25T19:30:02Z Half a century later, in a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, Huon still uses oxen to plow his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “This year, the royal oxen ate rice, predicting bountiful grains and fruits,” said farm ministry official Meesak Pakdeekong, as he read the interpretation. 'We will be blessed': Thai royal oxen predict good rice harvest 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z One of her workshops incorporated sheets of the stone into two matching oak tables, carved with diamond patterns and arches that resemble oxen yokes. Need a Reason to See the Winter Antiques Show? Here, Feast Your Eyes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z From Room 133 I could hear the musk oxen rutting and wheeling in the Square, but far from disturbing me, the noise strangely lulled me to sleep. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z Don’t let the bushy coats fool you: The stars of this documentary, arctic wolves, are shrewd and dangerous hunters who prey on musk oxen, animals much bigger than them. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z From there it was supposedly dragged inland by two oxen, and the body was buried in a forest. Codex Calixtinus manuscript stolen from Santiago de Compostela 2011-07-07T13:44:09Z King Norodom Sihamoni presided over the televised annual ritual in which two oxen are given offerings after plowing a field, marking the start of the rice-growing season in the Southeast Asian country. Cambodia's royal oxen predict plentiful rice harvest amid EU tariffs 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The Maronesa oxen pairs, and several others pulling floats through Lamego’s steep cobblestone streets past several churches – some dating back to the Middle Ages – make this festival rare. Ox-pulled floats with sacred images of Mary draw thousands to Portugal’s wine-country procession 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s the world’s largest and most northerly national park and is known for icebergs and the musk oxen that roam the coast. Cruise ship with 206 people has run aground in northwestern Greenland, no injuries, no damage 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The company traces its roots to Sol Simpson, who in 1890 innovated by using draft horses, instead of oxen, and later developed a mechanized machine to haul away timber. A giant Oregon fire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The Jayhawkers slaughtered many of their own oxen to eat and walked across the valley, eventually finding a Native American who guided them to safety. How did Death Valley gets its name? Not from the heat. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z In the run, six bulls guided by six tame oxen charged along a route through Pamplona’s streets for around two minutes and 30 seconds before reaching the bull ring. Thousands take part in first running of the bulls in Spain’s San Fermin festival 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z As agriculture becomes more mechanized, however, it’s difficult to find farmers like Faustino, who has brought his oxen to Our Lady for 10 years and plans to continue doing so. Ox-pulled floats with sacred images of Mary draw thousands to Portugal’s wine-country procession 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Early medieval farmers had literally scratched away at the soil with light plows, usually drawn by oxen or donkeys. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many species—from small insects to musk oxen and reindeer—depend on mosses for food. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But over time, oxen dropped dead from thirst and exhaustion, and several men died. How did Death Valley gets its name? Not from the heat. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Unlike wooden plows, which allow only scratch farming, bronze-bladed plows pulled by oxen could dig deep into the ground and turnover large amounts of earth. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They watched in silence as the oxen pulled the five floats. Ox-pulled floats with sacred images of Mary draw thousands to Portugal’s wine-country procession 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z People in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province celebrate the beginning of Ramadan with Meugang festivities by slaughtering animals such as oxen or buffalo, as well as smaller animals like chicken and ducks. Muslims in Indonesia gear up for first day of Ramadan 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Humpback whales, narwhals, polar bears and musk oxen are more common than tour buses. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It confronts the fact that Black women were bred as if they were oxen. Opinion | Why does ‘The 1619 Project’ worry people? It offers a peek at the truth. 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It could maintain a steady pace over much longer distances than oxen, and it could carry upward of three hundred pounds of goods an average of fifteen to eighteen miles a day. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A unit of the Portuguese Army’s special forces – wearing green fatigues, red bandannas and white gloves – helped carry the floats from the assembly point into the streets, where they were hitched to the oxen. Ox-pulled floats with sacred images of Mary draw thousands to Portugal’s wine-country procession 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z I did research other options but they all seemed to involve fording rivers and oxen dying. Opinion | Yes, that is my baby crying on the plane, and I am so sorry 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Defensive linemen couldn’t cover slot receivers, and linebackers weren’t big enough to bring down the nimble oxen that were Kentucky’s tight ends. A Key West regular, Mike Leach leaves a legacy — and an empty bar stool 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But this was no time to sulk, the wiry 63-year old told Reuters, as he tilled his fields with oxen to plant beans instead. Scavenging for supplies, Cuba's tobacco farmers rebuild after Hurricane Ian 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In one sequence you're desperately willing newborn musk oxen to make it through the first days of their brutal lives in the barren world of the frozen tundra. Frozen Planet II returns with live footage of avalanche 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The band's name derives from the small farming town its members are from, the black oxen which were most prized among pastoral Zulus, and 'mambazo' - the Zulu word for 'axe'. Ladysmith Black Mambazo shrug off power cut to sing for Mandela 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z They remained in a tight pack along with the six tame oxen that accompanied them. Bulls spare runners from gorings for 4th day in Pamplona 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z The six bulls guided by six tame oxen charged through Pamplona’s streets in around 2 minutes, 35 seconds without provoking too much carnage among the thousands of people cramming the course. 1st bull run in Pamplona in 3 years takes place; no gorings 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Couldn’t we just have a party and then shout, “Olly olly oxen free,” as we used to do when we were kids playing hide-and-seek? L.A. Affairs: At 73, I fantasize about bisexuality. But what about my 50-year marriage? 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The ancient sacrifice of an ox was more than simply spilled blood: A farmer’s oxen were a measure and generator of wealth. On Strawberry Fanta and Other Treats Imbued With Divine Status 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The materials were to be offloaded onto carts and drawn by oxen to the building site. With a peaceful view, Silvana’s Little White Church endures 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The twisting, narrow cobblestone streets are sprayed with a substance to help prevent the bulls and oxen from slipping, especially on the tight corners. Bulls spare runners from gorings for 4th day in Pamplona 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Inside the baptism room, a large Jacuzzi-like tub sits on a marble statue of 12 oxen, which represent the 12 tribes of Israel. What to expect when the Mormons’ D.C. temple opens to the public 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z They also restored a two-story concrete baptismal font that features 12 oxen — symbolizing the 12 Apostles — encircling its base. Md. governor, media get first tour of D.C. Mormon Temple in 48 years 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z It was logged in 1850 by hand, with the logs dragged out by teams of oxen. WA to preserve 10,000 acres of trees to sell as carbon credits to polluters 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z When the fields were ready and the farmer could afford a plow and a team of horses or oxen, he usually supplemented his corn with wheat, the favorite commercial crop of the middle colonies. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The oxen and mules pulling the wagons were already strained and the migrants did not want to add any more weight to the loads. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Within this they live, and having slaughtered the oxen, cut them in pieces and lay the pieces on top of the thorns along with the lumps of salt and the iron. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Critics of boycotting are almost always those whose oxen are being gored, so of course they’re against the practice. Column: Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and the virtue of boycotts 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The phrase “field work” might seem stationary, bringing to mind, as it does for me, imagery of farmers, black loam, tethered oxen, shovels and plows. Seamus Heaney’s ‘Field Work’ is the perfect travel companion 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z At one end of town, three drovers head their teams of oxen through the streets and into the surrounding hills to haul down freshly cut pine trunks on narrow carts. Indigenous town in Mexico survives on remittances from US 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Horses, oxen, and mules were valuable animals on the trail. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, horses gradually replaced oxen for plowing and for pulling wagons. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Poets described the vocal tidal wave by the common folk as shrieking and shouting monster cries, wild braying and whinnying, oxen bellows, goose honks, wolf howls. Perspective | We’re living in the new Dark Ages — and it’s time to turn on the light 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z It's a wild place where herds of caribou move around wolves and bears in wide arcs, musk oxen graze among dwarf willows, and gyrfalcons search the terrain for waterbirds. Gravel or green: What will become of Alaska’s coastal plain? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z When they returned after the army and its allies were expelled, they found their homes burnt and their oxen and donkeys stolen. Ethiopia's war one year on: How to end the suffering 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But the new genetic map found no evidence; the researchers point out oxen, not horses, could have been the driving factor of their expansion. The Horse You Rode In On May Have Been Made in Southern Russia 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Most pack animals—oxen, donkeys, and horses—could not travel very far in the hot, dry Sahara without rest or water. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than fight over whose ox will be gored, all the oxen need to be gored at once. Opinion | The thirsty West’s dreaded water crisis is here 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z "They took from me around 30 cows and oxen - there are some who lost 100-200... cattle." Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: G7 calls for access for aid workers 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z In northern and eastern Tigray, farmers told Reuters that soldiers from Eritrea had torched their crops and grain stores, and slaughtered oxen needed for ploughing. EXCLUSIVE UN official accuses Eritrean forces of deliberately starving Tigray 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z In remoter villages, farmers rouse their oxen at midnight and plough in the darkness before dawn, with scouts to warn them of marauding soldiers. Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Tragedy of the man-made famine 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z For hundreds of years, peasants had depended on oxen to pull their plows. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Caribou, polar bears, musk oxen and whales depend on the refuge, as do birds that travel there from across the planet. Opinion | The U.S. should swear off drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge once and for all 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Most musk oxen in Alaska are found in the coastal waters near Nunivak Island and Nelson Island. Hunting season open for musk oxen stranded on ice off Alaska 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z She checked muskrat traps, broke flax and hauled logs with a team of oxen she was later permitted to purchase. Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Her sister does the unpaid — but no less crucial — work of tending to her father and brother, the oxen, and their subsistence rice plants. Rethinking employment in the Biden-Harris era: I just learned to weave. Is that "work"? 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Horses needed better food, but a team of horses could plow three times as much land in a day as a team of oxen. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuel shortages and lack of investment mean many farmers still plough with oxen and travel by horse. How Cuba's artists took to the kitchen to earn their crust in lockdown 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z As dusk fell in Wuhan, the Lunar New Year vendors began bringing in their wares, plucking gigantic lanterns one by one off outdoor racks and carting in boxes of stuffed toy oxen. AP PHOTOS: Virus uncertainty for China’s Year of Ox vendors 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Hillsides were lined with stone-walled terraces, and we could see old men and boys plowing behind plodding oxen. My Christmas among the spies. In the Holy Land. In 1974 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z However, the font in the Provo City Center Temple, which sits upon 12 bronze oxen, is in an oval shape, a very non-traditional shape for temple fonts, which are typically circular. Memories linger decade after huge Provo Tabernacle fire 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z They offered sacrifices—often as many as a dozen oxen at a time—to those spirits, to Mahrem, and often to the Greek god of war, Ares. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The researchers used GPS collars to track 19 free-roaming musk oxen for up to three years, said Floris van Beest, an Arctic ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark and an author of the new paper. How Musk Oxen Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Animals — oxen, dogs, pigs — were dying, as well. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Each year, the partygoers consume more than 7 million litres of beer, more than 100 oxen and half a million chickens. Kegs tapped in Munich pubs for mini-Oktoberfest in shadow of COVID-19 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Rowland, also emeritus geology professor at the University of Nevada, plans to compare them with helmeted musk oxen bone specimens at the University of Utah. Ice Age musk ox? Nevada man finds bones in backyard 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z I learned to plow a field with oxen. This farmer in Pomona will inspire you to plant your own garden, no matter how small 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Rhythms were also very different in the winter than in the summer, with some oxen completely losing their patterns in the sunnier months and eating frequently but more or less at random. How Musk Oxen Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The ancient Olympics were also religious, marked in the middle by the sacrifice of 100 cows or oxen to Zeus. From Zeus to Athens, how the modern Olympics came to be 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Last year, they urged farmers to use oxen instead of tractors due to fuel scarcity. Facing crisis, Cuba calls on citizens to grow more of their own food 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z When oxen were more in use in Pakistan, several decades ago, they would often be impounded by police following a dispute over ownership. Donkey released after Pakistan gambling arrests 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But with the tractor out of action, the oxen now prepare the soil alone. Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z To the researchers’ surprise, whether the musk oxen kept up their rhythmic behavior during the summer seemed to depend on the quality of food nearby. How Musk Oxen Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z About 3,000 animals perform for the crowd: oxen pull, pigs scramble and llamas bat their eyelashes. Coachella, Art Basel, Comic-Con: The country’s big annual events are, well, big. Check out these lesser-known alternatives. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z We stepped on the low-lying beach of the tiny Jenny Lind Island, randomly named after a Swedish opera singer, and squinted through binoculars at musk oxen in the distance. The race to lay claim on the Bering Strait as Arctic ice retreats 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The phrase refers to the practice of musk oxen who form a circle around vulnerable members of the herd to protect them. What do ancient Greeks and Greta trolls have in common? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Justo Rodríguez mashes through the mud, whipping the two oxen that guide his iron plough as it slowly carves a furrow in the dry soil. Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z They crunch under the wheels of bullock carts, startling the oxen. Water, Water Everywhere Quenched Myanmar’s Thirst. Then the Clay Pots Disappeared. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The event featured everything from steer and oxen pulling contests to skillet-throwing competitions. Maine’s largest agricultural fair draws to a close 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Bovines — oxen, in particular — were the chief drivers of early inequality, according to research published in the journal Antiquity, which examined the archaeological records left by 150 ancient societies on both sides of the Atlantic. Capital in the 21st century (B.C., that is) 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z They were carved by wagons and oxen in the Forty Mile Desert between the Humboldt and Carson rivers. Big Nevada industrial park could help protect historic trail 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Do you ford the river with your oxen? The real way to make YouTube Kids childproof is to ask about Van Halen 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In return, the United States sent China two musk oxen, Milton and Matilda, from the San Francisco Zoo. Could pandas get caught in the U.S.-China trade war? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z When livestock imports introduced the illness to sub-Saharan Africa in the late nineteenth century, it killed more than 90% of the cattle and oxen there. What happens when a deadly disease is eradicated? Scientists sequence and destroy 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z That ignition point happened right as the domestication of oxen was becoming widespread, around 4,000 B.C. Capital in the 21st century (B.C., that is) 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z He’s observed some tell-tale signs of food shortages: farmers plowing fields with oxen, deforested mountains and stressed soil. Can birds help connect North Korea to the world? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z I was in awe over the dark, blocky forms of wild musk oxen on the horizon. Pumping Breast Milk at 50 Below 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Musk oxen are shaggy natives of the Arctic known for their strong odor. Could pandas get caught in the U.S.-China trade war? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It originally sat on the corner of Main and Park streets before being relocated by oxen in 1893 to Main Street. Bethlehem visitors center a step closer to historic register 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Young, who is 54, spent his early childhood in rural Mississippi, where he saw his father using the whip to direct teams of mule and oxen. How to Crack a Whip 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z In the summer, a working blacksmith practices his trade near the oxen lift used to shoe the beasts of burden. You’re going where? Provo, Utah. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn was recently returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Rare powder horn that belonged to African American Revolutionary War soldier goes on display 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The barn that held his equipment, tools, hay, four oxen, a donkey and five sheep. Community in Old Saybrook rallies to rebuild burned farm 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn has been returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Revolutionary War powder horn returned to museum it was stolen from in 1952 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z He dropped his plow and let his oxen run free and went straight to Iowa. Opinion | You may already be running 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In this humble setting. surrounded by oxen, sheep and other animals, the infant Jesus was born and placed in a bed of straw. Christmyths: What we get wrong about the first Noel 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z While they bear a resemblance to oxen, they are more closely related to goats than cattle. Canadian sculpture named 'Elon Muskox' 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z To train a new team, the young oxen are hooked up behind an older team to watch and learn. Community in Old Saybrook rallies to rebuild burned farm 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The fair brings thousands of people together with more than 3,000 animals ranging from oxen and steers to rabbits and chickens. Axe throwers, ox tenders to get together at Maine ag bash 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z “The crux is what you do with it. Do you go buy oxen and sheep to expand production, or buy booze for a moment of fun?” the paper said. Corrupt government? You voted for them - China pushes back at... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Musk oxen were extirpated from Alaska during the quarter of a century after the United States purchased the land from Russia in 1867. Arctic odysseys: science among sea bears and musk oxen 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z A 38-second video of the two men splashing around to a hip-hop song while trailing behind their mud-splattered oxen has been viewed around the world millions of times. In Kiki Challenge, Muddy Indian Farmers Show World How to Groove 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The animals also trained younger oxen to take up the yoke when their own hauling days were over, provided a pastoral scene for passersby, and competed in fairs bringing home ribbons and cash prizes. Community in Old Saybrook rallies to rebuild burned farm 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Just beyond the city limits of Pyongyang, farmers are still ploughing fields with oxen; women carry big bundles of firewood on their backs. What life is like for ordinary North Koreans 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Wild horses, yaks, reindeer, musk oxen and a lone male European bison already roam Pleistocene Park, which was founded in 1996. Bison from Alaska going to Russia for permafrost research 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z He pitches carnivore dung at moose, baseball-style, to see whether they respond to the scent, or wears a polar-bear costume made from cloth and styrofoam to get close to musk oxen and study their reactions. Arctic odysseys: science among sea bears and musk oxen 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The video of the two farmers shaking their booties next to a team of oxen has proved irresistible. In Kiki Challenge, Muddy Indian Farmers Show World How to Groove 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “The truck can only go into the woods when it’s really dry, or frozen, but oxen never slip.” Community in Old Saybrook rallies to rebuild burned farm 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “When they got sick, they called Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. Then, sadly, their oxen drowned while forging the river and they had to reboot the game.” Seth Meyers: ‘The phrase ‘drain the swamp’ is now devoid of all meaning’ 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z During the ceremony, which signals the start of the new rice growing season, two oxen ate 95 percent of the rice and corn on offer and 80 percent of beans presented in ornate bowls. Cambodia's royal oxen predict good harvests this year 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The 44-year-old farmer guided the oxen to a fallow field, where he was preparing to plant peanuts in a tiny patch of land he owns outside Paicho, a village in northern Uganda. Sowing Peanuts, Reaping Ammo in Uganda 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z I do still get unreasonably sad when oxen die; that hasn’t changed. The Oregon Trail handheld game is a really fun nostalgia gadget 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Toward the end of the Roman triumph procession, two white oxen were sacrificed at the Temple of Jupiter and the prisoners killed. Opinion | Trump doesn’t need a parade. He needs a Roman triumph. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z For the past ten years, Berger’s gone undercover in the arctic to study herds of musk oxen. Colorado scientist dresses like animals to study animals 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z In a warming landscape, pregnant female musk oxen may struggle to find enough food for their unborn calves, the researchers found. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Members are escorted to a decorative baptismal font resting on statutes of 12 oxen. APNewsBreak: Mormons perform baptisms on Holocaust victims 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z This rise coincides with the introduction of oxen and horses and their exploitation in the ploughing of fields. Super rich shown to have grown out of ancient farming 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Caribou, polar bears and musk oxen depend on this untouched land. Opinion | What’s one more bad thing in the GOP tax bill? Ask the polar bears. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Berger’s traveled to Alaska, Greenland and the remote Wrangel Island, north of the Russian mainland to study musk oxen in the wild. Colorado scientist dresses like animals to study animals 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z A decade ago, Dr. Berger began traveling to Alaska to gather data on musk oxen. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In response, aggrieved farmers simply slaughtered their horses and oxen or stopped feeding them. What there is to learn from the Soviet economic model 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The refuge supports an impressive diversity of wildlife: caribou, polar bears, wolves, musk oxen and many species of migratory birds. Opinion | The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is too important to exploit 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z They say it would disturb denning polar bears, which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, as well as musk oxen and other Arctic animals. Trump administration working toward renewed drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Recently, Berger and his colleagues published a study on musk oxen based on seven years’ worth of observations and data collection. Colorado scientist dresses like animals to study animals 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Back at his office, Dr. Berger and his colleagues examined the pictures to determine how young musk oxen were growing. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The film also depicts children producing earthen bricks, cutting cane, gathering firewood and plowing fields with oxen, as well as carving wooden figures or weaving baskets to sell by the roadside. Eugenio Polgovsky, award-winning filmmaker who cast austere eye on Mexico, dies at 40 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Long after the Beechers lived there, it was moved — hauled by oxen — to a new location, where it became a sanitarium. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Disassembled Childhood Home For Sale On eBay 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z A few days before his big day, he presided over the Royal Plowing Ceremony, in which sacred oxen forecast the year’s crops. Donald Trump, Ransomware, North Carolina: Your Tuesday Briefing 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z A few days before, he presided over the nation’s Royal Plowing Ceremony, in which sacred oxen forecast the year’s crops. Donald Trump, Édouard Philippe, Ransomware: Your Tuesday Briefing 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z To determine why, they also gathered data about the conditions in which the musk oxen lived. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z There aren’t even oxen strong enough to pull a plow, meaning that most farming is still done by hand. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Within a few years, musk oxen started mysteriously dropping dead on Victoria Island and neighbouring Banks Island. Climate change: As the ice melts : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Here, she checked muskrat traps, broke flax and hauled logs with a team of oxen she was permitted to purchase. Harriet Tubman fled a life of slavery in Maryland. Now a new visitor center opens on the land she escaped. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The scale of spending means this proposal gores more conservative oxen than liberal ones. Let’s go crazy with policy ideas to get out of the mess we’re in 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Dr. Berger started collaborating with Russian scientists to study a population of musk oxen on Wrangel Island, off the coast of northeastern Siberia. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z To accomplish this, 40 special sleds, 80 yoke of oxen and an array of flat-bottomed boats were marshaled into use. Locals build dioramas to illustrate Revolutionary War era 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It showed that the numbers of musk oxen on the islands were dwindling and those animals that remained were in bad shape. Climate change: As the ice melts : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Working as a hired slave, she was allowed by her master to keep a portion of what she earned, and with her savings she bought a team of oxen to enhance her value. Harriet Tubman fled a life of slavery in Maryland. Now a new visitor center opens on the land she escaped. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The country's oldest political party, the Congress, began contesting elections with a symbol of two oxen yoked to a cart under then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Why the bicycle may decide the fate of 200 million people - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z If winter rains become more common in places like Siberia and Alaska, Dr. Berger warned, the range of musk oxen may drastically shrink. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Since the sect’s earliest days, members sold goods to outsiders and shared oxen and other equipment. The dying out of the sect’s last members may not mean the end for the Shakers 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Cuba, long separated from global markets, produces roughly 60% of its vegetables in towns and cities, with remarkable success based on traditional practices such as reintroducing oxen for ploughing. Agriculture: Sowing the city : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The guy working with a hoe and oxen is still struggling, and will stay struggling. 'I was so hungry I ate water lilies': southern Africa's food crisis in a dozen dishes | John Vidal 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z As we rattled through the mud alongside lush, green fields, I remember trying to imagine Soviet missiles travelling the same route five decades earlier, minus the oxen. Fidel, Russia and rekindled Cold War memories - BBC News 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Dr. Berger cautioned that he and his colleagues followed musk oxen only until they were three years old. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Cuba’s rural economy is so dependent today on horse carts and oxen that its farming towns look as if they’re drifting back in time toward the 19th century. Castro Town: Fidel grew up here, but he came back to destroy it 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Heading into the countryside is another step back - to a region where farmers plow with oxen and people travel by horse-cart. Adulation of Fidel Castro runs deepest in rural eastern Cuba 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Heading into the countryside is another step back — to a region where farmers plow with oxen and people travel by horse-cart. Adulation of Fidel Castro runs deepest in rural eastern Cuba 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I once travelled around a key site in the Cuban missile crisis on a cart pulled by oxen with a guide called Stalin. Fidel, Russia and rekindled Cold War memories - BBC News 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Winter rain, then, may push down musk oxen populations. In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The contrast is stark as the new, Chinese-made electric train passes horse-drawn carriages, oxen hauling plows and crowds of curious village children. Ethiopia has a lot riding on its new, Chinese-built railroad to the sea 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But in all the important ways the building isn't all that different from what it was when the oxen dropped it off. The evolution of the world's best clubhouse - Golf Digest 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “GHB, PCBs, and what was that stuff you said you were on, oxen cotton?” Can we all agree to stop Instagramming our cocktails? | David Ferguson 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z To get a sense of their significance, imagine a train of 16 cottonwood carts pulled by 60 yoke of oxen making its creaking, tedious way across the arid waste of far West Texas. Danger lurks in salt flats, as it did a century ago 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Those brown clouds enveloping farmers of old who hitched up oxen, mules or draft horses are history. Brothers harvest fields of gold in wheat country of Palouse 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Also at home here are grizzly and black bears, moose, Dall sheep, wolverines, musk oxen and red foxes. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z A team of oxen to move the building from the school to the golf course, where it became the clubhouse: The evolution of the world's best clubhouse - Golf Digest 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z There were teams of men, teams of oxen, big ocean ships, flat river barges, inclement weather, monthslong delays. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Teams of oxen help pull the Orleans County Grammar School to a new location Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Brownington, Vt . 1823 schoolhouse moves back to its original spot atop hill 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The king of the Greek gods was also honored by lavish sacrifices of oxen and dedicatory statues. Olympic Games We No Longer Play 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The home to 3,000 oxen hadn’t been cleaned in 30 years. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Much of that time was spent in worship: grand processions, the sacrifice of many hundred oxen, banquets in honor of gods and heroes. The Strange Rites of the Ancient Olympics 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The salt drove their oxen mad with thirst - some of the animals died; others broke free of their restraints and charged away, never to be seen again. Thrill-seekers test limits on Bonneville Salt Flats 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z About 200 people and 500 musk oxen live on the island. Norway-flagged tanker gauging damage after Bering Sea mishap 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Most land is farmed either with oxen or tractors built in the 1940s. Smoked: Cuba’s Cigar Industry Isn’t Ready for Its American Moment 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z So Rauner is passing out shovels and hoping he can get the oxen to help him clean up. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z I thought they were like oxen, never looking up. Sonia Manzano, a.k.a. Maria on ‘Sesame Street,’ Recalls Her Real-Life Bronx Childhood 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It said it plans to move the building on Aug. 8 with the help of teams of oxen, which is how it was moved in 1870. Plans underway to move Vermont county’s first high school 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The Chinese soon sent word that they wanted musk oxen instead, Ms. Winchester said. Obama Signs Law Making Bison the First National Mammal 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It reminds me of settlers dumping their precious possessions along the Oregon Trail, lightening the load as the oxen falter and winter closes in. All lost in the supermarket: What’s up with those oddly displaced items? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The yoke used by oxen that helped build the iconic covered wooden bridge over the Cass River in Frankenmuth hangs in the hotel lobby. Inside Frankenmuth’s Bavarian Inn Lodge 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z "If such a fate befalls me," he told his companions, "put my body on an ox cart and set it loose. Where the oxen stop is where I should be buried." Museum of Lost Objects: Mar Elian Monastery - BBC News 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z They will welcome the community onto the Lyme farm when they plow the land with oxen and horses in the spring, as part of their goal to share their knowledge with the community. Growing interest in farming rejuvenates industry 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Nixon reciprocated the gift, up to a point, by sending two musk oxen to China. The Pandas Richard Nixon Obtained for the U.S. 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z He proudly recounts the story of his grandfather, a Vietnamese farm worker who saved up money to buy oxen, then rented the animals to other farmers. Could Vietnam become the next Silicon Valley? - BBC News 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “People have began using the skins from mules, horses, pigs and oxen to produce counterfeit tonics,” Xinhua said. Sellers of Donkey Gelatin, a Chinese Cure in Crisis, Seek a State Remedy 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In the south of the country, where I grew up, oxen and buffaloes were more valuable alive; they were how rural families sustained their livelihoods. China's cloned cows: meat on the table or environmental disaster? | Jian Yi 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Many farmers in Myanmar still use oxen to plow their fields. Myanmar Generals Set the Stage for Their Own Exit 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Musk oxen are stocky, long-haired animals that disappeared from Alaska by the 1920s, according to the Alaska department of fish and game. Alaska to allow hunting of doomed musk oxen that float away on sea ice 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z "A kind of Uber for oxen," he says with a laugh. Could Vietnam become the next Silicon Valley? - BBC News 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps that will keep Jan from coveting Knut's oxen and donkeys. Knowing Your Neighbor's Tax Status 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Key to his work on the Arizona exhibition farm are Ike and Earl, the oxen. Why Tom Steyer's latest fight against climate change involves raising his own cattle 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Musk oxen like these in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge put up a defensive ring around their young. Why Obama is the First President to Visit the Arctic 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z But that didn't exist until now; researchers were using data collected in olive oil and bone marrow from oxen and sheep—not marine mammals. Do Whales Get the Bends? 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But now—instead of displaying, say, a cotton gin or a combustion engine—there is a mid-19th-century wooden cart with two wheels and poles to which oxen were once hitched: a Red River cart. ‘American Enterprise’ Review: A Skewed History of American Business 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z They were not easy to find, Buffett said, as the only practical purpose for oxen in America tends to be for history buffs who want to demonstrate how life was lived in times past. Why Tom Steyer's latest fight against climate change involves raising his own cattle 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Rather, “yoked” signifies “work,” as one would yoke oxen together to plow or haul. How Christians Get Interfaith Marriage Wrong 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Along with pigs, oxen, goats, horses and fowl, dogs are one of the six animals domesticated during the Stone Age. The day my dog was cooked for dinner - BBC News 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The court stopped short of banning carriages outside of Mumbai, however, noting that horses as well as oxen and camels are still used to pull work carts and carriages nationwide. Mumbai court bans joyriding in iconic horse-drawn carriages 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Outside is Neruda’s biggest toy: a train engine that the poet hauled using oxen and Jeeps. Sailing on land aboard Neruda’s ship-like homes in Chile 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Small children herded the buffaloes and oxen to their temporary enclosures, while older girls carried dented metal pails for milking. A quake-stricken district in Nepal struggles back to life 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z A child may yell “all-ee all-ee oxen free” for all of their youth and never stop to think why they said it or whether people will continue to say it after them. Historic American Language Project May Face Extinction 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Some, including parts from two musk oxen, were recovered from “defense of life or property” cases. Caribou antlers abundant in Alaska auction of animal parts 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In addition to serving as calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd, it is home to other mammals, including grizzly bears, musk oxen and wolves. Obama administration to propose new wilderness protections in Arctic refuge — Alaska Republicans declare war 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The arctic refuge is home to a vast and diverse array of wildlife, including caribou, polar bears, gray wolves and musk oxen. Obama to Seek to Protect Millions of Acres of Arctic Habitat 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z A 1948 book, “Know Rock County,” reports that oxen hauled bricks from Milwaukee for a tavern and hotel known as the Leyden House in 1841. Rock County’s history filled with towns that came and went 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Several decades on, we may consider The Oregon Trail’s shuffling oxen more significant than the barely interactive cartoon that is Dragon’s Lair, but players to come may disagree. Video Games and the Curse of Retro 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Rejecting materialistic ambitions and the technology of their age, they fled to the countryside and practiced a primitive form of agriculture, pulling the plow themselves instead of using oxen. A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In Exodus 20 the commandment includes animals — okay, draft animals — but I don’t own any mules or oxen. Sleeping with (Stuffed) Animals 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z "My great-great-grandfather broke the prairie near my house with a team of oxen," he said. With barns disappearing in Midwest, a preservation movement rises 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z “Even if overall economic growth slows, oil demand will grow, because they want something other than a bicycle; they want to farm with a tractor instead of oxen.” Why Harold Hamm Isn't Worried About Plunging Oil Prices 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Pigs, sheep, cows, and oxen are fenced in nearby, part of an agricultural arts program. U.S. Private High Schools Accommodate Influx of Chinese Students 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z If the duration of winter declines, Dr. Schmidt says, the population of musk oxen may gain in the short term. Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Even in an impoverished medieval Europe, the mythology of dining had to do with large oxen roasts, endless platters, Rabelaisian portions, bottomless flagons of wine and tankards of beer. The Very Exotic Mind-Set of the Japanese Gastronome 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z As a result, parasites in the far north are infecting musk oxen, and ticks are transmitting viruses to people. August 2014 Briefing Memo 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z There’s a working Victrola and a yoke used by Joseph Johnson’s oxen to pull the wagon from Ohio to Michigan. Battle Creek farm to hold 150th anniversary party 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Despite the course’s name, there are no bushy beards here, no flannel shirts, no suspenders, no oxen. Ax throw, log climb at Adirondack lumberjack class 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But “in the long run, higher temperatures will lead to fewer musk oxen, because of more unstable winter conditions.” Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The Babylonians would sacrifice oxen, while the Vikings sacrificed a slave to propitiate their sea god. Why is champagne traditional for smashing on ships? 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The writer of the note claimed inmates were forced to work "like oxen" and were given food that would be considered unfit for animals. Primark investigating 'SOS note' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Gorn calls the bear hypothesis compelling, pointing to a colleague’s survey on musk oxen calving. Musk oxen increasingly seen Nome area 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Having first shooed oxen off the field, Miller’s Sao Paulo Railway team beat the Gas Company 4-2. The man who brought futebol to Brazil 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Changes in a plant community cascade up the food web to the grazing musk oxen, hares and other herbivores that live in the desert. Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The university failed to provide adequate veterinary care, identify that the musk oxen were losing weight or enlist veterinary treatment for the animals, the USDA’s complaint said. Alaska school gets $127K penalty for animal deaths 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z A stench hung in the air, but its source was dead oxen on nearby farms caught in the crossfire, Mr. Wood said. For each man, a D-Day duty: Fearless fighters turned the tide of World War II 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Dozens of workmen below are still welding and painting floats and giant sculptures of oxen, farmhands and other rural caricatures that will adorn them. Samba sans silicone: Rio Carnival school goes natural 2014-02-20T14:09:40Z The Bible says that Abraham, along with other patriarchs of Judaism and Christianity, used domesticated camels—as well as donkeys, sheep, oxen, and slaves—in his various travels and trade agreements. What's With the Bible's Camels? 2014-02-11T23:05:22Z "Otherwise we keep it and find another way to sell it another time," he says, as a team of oxen threshed golden piles of teff on his farm west of the capital. Chinese Deals Carry Hidden Costs for Poor Nations 2014-01-07T04:13:43Z Musk oxen were once native to Alaska but were hunted to extinction several hundred years ago. Alaska school gets $127K penalty for animal deaths 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Without growth we'd be back in the dark ages with oxen pulling the plough, wouldn't we? The Trojan horse 2013-11-29T16:10:11Z There is a drawing of the way the land used to be tilled - two men pulling a plough instead of oxen, guided by a third. The village where time has stood still 2013-11-25T00:06:40Z The old men who were farmers in India share memories of oxen races and tell folk tales that invariably end with a moral: hard work pays off. In California, Gardening for Mental Health 2013-05-25T19:17:59Z Texas is heaven for men and dogs, hell on women and oxen, the old saw goes. Is Ted Cruz the future of Texas? 2013-05-04T14:00:00Z Department of Agriculture after 12 musk oxen died from malnutrition at the school’s large animal research station earlier this decade. Alaska school gets $127K penalty for animal deaths 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Tibetan farmers and tassel-bedecked oxen celebrated the beginning of spring plowing near Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 16. Spring Is Here 2013-03-20T20:39:55Z He ran to save his family, his workers, but couldn’t find them: turned back to save his oxen, but they were gone. Paricut n: "Save Me From the Dangers in Which I am About to Die" 2013-02-28T14:45:03.250Z But Pope Benedict reassures his readers not to worry — that “no one will give up the oxen and the donkey in their Nativity scenes,” notes the Telegraph. Pope Benedict Disputes Jesus' Date of Birth 2012-11-22T22:35:30Z He argues there is no evidence in the Gospel for that, but says images of oxen and donkeys have become such a staple part of the Nativity that they are now accepted. Pope publishes biography of Jesus 2012-11-21T11:10:14Z She said it took time to nurse the musk oxen back to health and find the right balance of supplements. Alaska school gets $127K penalty for animal deaths 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Tibetan farmers and tassel-bedecked oxen celebrated the beginning of spring plowing near Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 16. Spring Is Here 2013-03-20T20:39:55Z He couldn’t get to his wife, but he did try to save his oxen, terrified fingers fumbling at their yoke. Paricut n: "Save Me From the Dangers in Which I am About to Die" 2013-02-28T14:45:03.250Z Pam and Rich Mikkelson run an inn near the farm and used to watch as the oxen pulled a cart of produce down Main Street to the farmer’s market. Oxen’s Possible Slaughter Prompts Fight in Vermont 2012-10-29T02:00:27Z In "Hemofields," which Mr. Eagles says is a combination of hemoglobin and color fields, he explores various colors and textures of blood, from cattle and oxen, as it reacts during the resin's cure time. City Room: Jordan Eagles Exhibition Using Blood as Paint Opens Wednesday 2012-09-04T18:35:37Z Those that do include polar bears, arctic foxes, musk oxen and arctic hares.” Book review for kids: ?North, the Amazing Story of Arctic Migration? 2011-12-17T21:25:48Z The disease soon swept through South Africa, killing 100.000 cows and oxen along the way. Livestock bacteria are as old as the livestock they kill 2012-05-14T12:45:00.247Z The hides of the oxen and the “wool pells” of the sheep, which had been killed for food or had fallen victim to that curse of medieval farming, the murrain, were by no means wasted. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Andrew Kohler, a senior, took a course in which he learned how to drive the oxen team. Oxen’s Possible Slaughter Prompts Fight in Vermont 2012-10-29T02:00:27Z St. Erasmus was the special protector of oxen, and they knelt down voluntarily before his shrine. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Ten score hogs—no small work, Ten score cows, two hundred oxen, Were slaughtered at festive Aileach For Muircheartach of the great fetters. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The ploughs are drawn by oxen, and are exactly similar to those I have seen in parts of Italy, except that the share of this is broader and does certainly more work. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z How these lean country oxen, the “one old bay, a dun, a white and an ambling grey,” bring the quiet English landscape before the reader’s eyes. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The fact that I was a wrestler affronts some; that I could plow with oxen annoys others. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Jewish law did not confine its care to oxen. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z There stood the oxen, as ready to draw us as a load of hay; but what a "chariot" was this behind! From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z These oxen are very small, but extremely hardy. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z This mode of raising water is very simple but expensive, as it requires the labour of several men and at least two animals, either oxen or mules. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z A man and woman have unhitched their oxen team, their little girl is made to feel at home by my mother. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Hercules is supposed to have visited Italy on his return from Erythia, when he slew Cacus, son of Vulcan, the giant of the Aventine mount of Rome, who had stolen his oxen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z T. B. Robinson, of the Union Army, riding side by side in an old shay drawn by the principal motive power of that day, oxen. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Dead mules and camels and oxen lay everywhere upon the shore, and within a short distance of it. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The noise of wheels became audible, and an antique wagon, drawn by white oxen and loaded with vegetables, came along the street. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z “What meaneth this bleating of sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen in my ears?” The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z A car drawn by oxen seems to have been widely used in the processions of Hera, and the cow was her most frequent sacrifice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The following is described as the supply of meat, poultry, bread, and beer, for one year:—72 miles of oxen, 10 abreast; 120 miles of sheep, do.; Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z At present the stores from here to Koomaylo are carried by camels, and thence taken up by mules, oxen, and ponies from station to station. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Scripture informs us, that at the dedication of the Temple, Scripture informs us, that at the dedication of the Temple, the sacrifice offered up, was twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty-two thousand sheep. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Upon the following morning the troop marched, followed by a waggon containing their baggage and provisions, drawn by ten oxen. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z The race has become wholly extinct, if, indeed, not incorporated with the breed of large tame oxen of northern Europe. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z During last night the Baralongs secured, by a successful raid, some twenty-four head of cattle, and in the course of last week another raiding detachment looted some eighteen oxen. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Many thousands of men, women, and children were crowded everywhere, mixed up with oxen, sheep, and donkeys. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z In the picture a lean and hungry-looking old woman, Poverty, was seen riding in the lowliest of vehicles, a cart, drawn by two donkeys, Stupidity and Clumsiness, and by two oxen, Negligence and Indolence. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The horses were then knee-haltered, and they and the oxen were turned out to feed till night. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z "I have read a fable," she said, "which speaks of a pasture in which oxen find fodder, hounds, hares, storks, lizards, and some animals nothing." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Nestor placed Ulysses' baby son, Telemachus, on the seashore, in the path of the advancing oxen. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Riding up to it, we came upon a party of eight or ten men with spears and shields driving off a couple of dozen oxen they had just stolen. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z He promised him two oxen and a calf; to observe his directions by making a fire; and gave him hope to see him within two nights.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z That of the Discovery, in a lower latitude, was much larger as regards the oxen and hares. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z A thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, a thousand swine, six hundred deer, ten thousand poultry, and thirty thousand measures of corn, were distributed to the poor. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z There were no oxen in the country at that time and the first team that came to Elliott Bay was driven along the beach at low tide from up near Tacoma.” Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z These, like the oxen, stand very quietly, and appear perfectly indifferent as to any possible change in their ownership. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Hercules brought the oxen of Geryon to pasture in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z There were a few oxen pulling carts, but mostly it was just people squatting in the fields digging by hand. Green Blog: Q and A: North Korea's Choked Environment 2012-03-30T17:48:31Z A man must plough with such oxen as he hath. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z There were also no roads and Lee Terry went to Puyallup for a yoke of oxen, which he drove down on the beach to Alki. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z But when the men collected near the fleet, instead of embarking as Ulysses urged them to do, they began to drink the rich wine, to roast oxen whole, and to indulge in games and revelry. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Around the altar were the images of four oxen, the work of Myron, so beautifully sculptured that they seemed alive. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z But oxen are not usually trained to carry goods on their backs, and will not do so without training. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z On the journey the oxen stumbled, and consequently shook the cart. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z At first the forest-fallers had no oxen to drag the timbers, after they were hewn, to the water’s edge, but rolled and hauled them by hand as far as practicable. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Then plows, for seed, the fruitful furrows broke, And oxen labor’d first beneath the yoke.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Hercules sought the stolen oxen everywhere, and when he could not find them, he was going away with the remainder. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Upon what did these two millions of sheep and oxen feed in the journey to the Red Sea over a desert region, sandy, gravelly, and stony alternately? The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z This time God punished the women in Abimelech’s house for an offence they did not commit, and Sarah was again restored to her husband, with sheep, oxen, men-servants, women-servants, and money. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Lee Terry brought a yoke of oxen to complete the work of loading, from Puyallup, on the beach, as there was no road through the heavy forest. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Mercury yielded to the decree, produced the remaining oxen, and, in exchange for the two missing, gave Apollo the lyre he had just fashioned. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z We attempted an excursion beyond our strength and got well punished; the moral is, avoid all diligence journeys in Spain, they are only for those who have the nerves of oxen. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z One of these tents, with its poles, pegs, etc., would be a load for a single ox, so that they would have needed 0.000 oxen to carry the tents. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The tongues of the panting oxen hung lolling from their jaws; while the pine-trees, scorching in the hot sun, diffused their resinous odors through the sultry air. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Several ships were loaded at Port Townsend, where the possession of three yoke of oxen gave them a decided advantage. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Then, his hiding place being reached in safety, Mercury coolly killed two of the oxen, which he proceeded to eat. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The cream-colored oxen that drag them have their yokes covered with sheepskin, another century-old custom. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Hissar produces a breed of large milk-white oxen, which are in great request for the carriages of natives. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z They advanced, accordingly, to Fort Schlosser, above the cataract, whither their boats and bateaux had been sent before them, craned up the rocks at Lewiston, and dragged by oxen over the rough portage road. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z I being now relieved of this responsibility, stayed behind the train and drove the tenderfooted oxen. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z At times, miles from any village, a solitary figure guided his oxen and plow in a stony field, or silhouetted against the sky a tandem of five or six mules slowly crawled along. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The shepherds brought the sheep into line with well-aimed sling-shots, touching them first on one side, and then on the other, as oxen are guided by the touch of the goad. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z I found out after driving oxen a few days, that I was going ‘with’ the old man. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z When he went anywhere he traveled in a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen, with a rustic oxherd for charioteer. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The village of Naranco is emptied of its folk that pious morn, as the peasants, in the same tranquil beauty as in old Greece, lead their garlanded oxen and heifers up to San Miguel. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Behind them followed a train of servants, driving the lambs, goats, and oxen to be offered as sacrifices in the temple, or sold in Jerusalem to other pilgrims. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z Monsieur walked before the oxen, his goad on his shoulder, and a white nightcap on his head. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z For while we were gazing at the oxen the red-frocked eldest girl had hastened by carrying a big dish of fish. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z We had to send strong detachments to seize oxen in the woods where the peasants had taken refuge, and often the detachments returned empty-handed. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Our conveyances appeared in the course of half an hour, consisting of two large baskets, each drawn by a pair of oxen and 337 containing two persons, and a small Sardinian pony. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z "If we had oxen and some ropes, or even half a dozen men," he said, "we could get the carriage across." Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z So it was the oxen who turned the machine that made the macaroni, and it was the prickly foliage of the chumberas that their jaws were patiently munching. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z This, however, must have been an exceptional case, for we know that oxen were used until a comparatively late time, and that in Wales a law existed forbidding horses to be used for ploughing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Young men in the west, when they get too lazy to plough, drive oxen, and dig potatoes, invariably either go to studying Law, Physic, or Divinity, or emigrate to New York to make their fortunes. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z In front of the Dorset Arms, where our party was to lie, a clumsy carrier's wain, drawn by oxen, stood waiting. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z But I must confess that a first visit to a butcher's shop made me wonder if Majorcan sheep and oxen differed in construction from British animals, such odd forms did their dead flesh present. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The barbaric magnificence of the temple built by Solomon is fully described in 1 Kings vi.—viii., and we are bound to believe that Solomon offered up 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep! The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny 2012-03-14T02:00:26.310Z These stalled canons may ruminate much, even like stalled oxen, but what nourishment do we get from the rumination of the former? Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Creeping quietly toward them, taking advantage of such cover as the nature of the ground afforded, he was within nearly a hundred yards when the alarmed oxen scrambled to their feet. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z "Thar was six oxen to draw the lion cages," said the girl, fanning herself with her sunbonnet. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z But this ancient fireplace had been superseded by a long range of charcoal stoves, and the savour of roasting oxen will never again ascend that giant chimney. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Elizabeth, according to her usual custom, sent out men, oxen and sledges, to open pathways for several poor families, and for households whose inmates were visited by illness. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z In the dog this membrane is narrow; in oxen and horses it extends half over the eyeball. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The timbers for the church were hewed in the forest where the trees were felled and were drawn by oxen to the site selected. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Shall thy cook, this day, roast certain birds of the air, call'd woodcocks, and ribs of the oxen likewise? Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z "Seventeen oxen and seventeen herdsmen on their backs, I suppose you mean." The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z If accepted, the suitor, accompanied by all his kindred, drove two or three fat oxen to the house of his bride. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Second Man: I have bought five yoke of oxen; I must go to prove them. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z The others had died with their oxen during their two years' wandering in the wilderness. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z One day, "just as he was returning home from the field behind his oxen," he heard the announcement which the messengers of Jabesh brought. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z About a week before he died he asked that a herd of his best oxen might be driven in front of his windows, that he might see their honest faces and gentle eyes. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z There her relations welcomed the visitors; the oxen were slain, and the bridal feast took place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z It was a dark night, and the ride seemed endless as the oxen moved slowly on through the red-clay mire. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z He could not remain without a village: a priest without a village—a cart without a wheel, a yoke without oxen, a hat on the top of a wig. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z On the way an evil omen occurred: the oxen which drew the wagon broke loose, the ark tottered, and Uzzah put out his hand to stay it. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z I want to hunt seals, polar bears, and musk oxen.” First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Now it was a herd of oxen that passed along, moving tediously and painfully, driven by half-naked cattle-men and guarded by a troop of grimy horse. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z And then, hearing of the returning cart, he left us, and we could hear the tramp of the oxen over the little bridge, on their way back to the village. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z The green stream swept through the mill-race, the foaming water boiled round the black building, and in the yard, unyoked and ruminating, the oxen slept beside the waggon. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Each day 30 Kor of fine and 60 Kor of ordinary meal were required, 10 stalled oxen, and 20 oxen from the pasture, and 100 head of small cattle. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z |
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