Sentence examples for * the oxen from inspiring English sources

That gave the oxen a temporary reprieve.

"We've got to plow with the oxen we've got".

Andrew Kohler, a senior, took a course in which he learned how to drive the oxen team.

It is an extraordinary level of devotion, but, as Beckworth points out, the oxen are the lifeblood of the community: "They are completely dependent on these animals.

The defenders' draught animals, the oxen, were the first to go, followed by their horses, camels, and finally, starlings, cats, dogs and even hedgehogs.

The youngest of nine children, Contreras was working with the oxen by the time he was 7, helping his father in the fields.

For more than four decades, the yoked oxen have lumbered toward Columbus Avenue through the towering grasslands along West 71st Street, pulling a cart piled high with sugarcane.

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.

Transport by pack animals camels in the north, oxen and donkeys in the south has retained considerable importance in those parts of the country where a subsistence and barter economy prevails, although transport between cities and regions is increasingly by road.

It fell into the river; oxen had to haul it out.

I'd bicycle beneath scores of coconut palms towering 50 feet and continue beyond the oxen-powered oil press and huge piles of coconuts ready for husking.