Sentence examples for oxen of from inspiring English sources

The ancient name, Alpis Graia, interpreted to mean "Greek pass," was associated with the legend that the Greek hero Hercules, returning from Spain with the oxen of the three-bodied giant Geryon, crossed the Alps by this route, though the legend better suits a route through the Maritime Alps.

Some experts now believe the disease arose in the gray oxen of the Central Asian steppes and was swept forward in the trains of baggage and beasts that followed the Mongol armies in the 1200s as they conquered Eurasia from China to Poland.

Nevertheless, the main obstacle to adoption of the plan has been Republican opposition, based largely on the mistaken notion that the present setup favors the G.O.P. Once the oxen of both parties have been, so to speak, gored, that would change.

Fig. 2 Favourite-oxen of various localities in North West Turkana: a, b, d Songot Mountain, c Lotikipi Plain Fig. 3 Favourite oxen of various localities in North West Turkana: a, d Mogila Mountain, b Lokamarynyang (Ilemi Triangle), c Lotikipi Plain.

It was tough to pass because it gored the oxen of major vested interests that weren't just going to roll over and play dead.

The musk oxen of Arctic Alaska aren't natives; after those were hunted to extinction, new individuals were brought in from Greenland.

With their wagon, they had two yokes of oxen, one of cows and an extra cow.

He took to calling his onetime subordinate "the stalled ox of the White House".

"We gored the ox of the patron of the Senate," as one aide put it.

If you cherish the ox of any aesthetic or ideological bias, he'll gore it".

Aurochs (Bos primigenius), also spelled auroch, extinct wild ox of Europe, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), from which cattle are probably descended.