Sentence examples for pair of oxen from inspiring English sources

A man plows a field with the help of a pair of oxen.

A pair of oxen swayed past drawing a sledge piled with timber.

On the earliest chariots the wheels rotated on a fixed axle that was linked by a draft pole to the yoke of a pair of oxen.

He learned how to do his own smithing and shoeing and raised a pair of oxen during a stay in Iowa.

Legend says the bones landed at a small bay 10km south of Bari in 1087, and were dragged by a pair of oxen towards the centre of the city.

And an e-mail from my father, with a photo of him and my grandfather plowing the fields with a pair of oxen during a summer visit in 1948.

Others are heavy, requiring teams of four to six pairs of oxen.

In 19th-century Herzegovina, families with large houses would load their logs onto three or four pairs of oxen, which were then led into the house.

The main reason for the broad streets was that Dayton was a marketing and shipping center from its beginning: streets were broad to enable wagons drawn by teams of three to four pairs of oxen to turn around.

They moved out of the city, to a hundred-acre farm near Mansfield Center, Connecticut, where Kunitz plowed the fields with a pair of white oxen and sold herbs to markets in Hartford.

The idea of sustainability runs so deep that instead of machines fueled by diesel, a pair of working oxen have tilled the fields for the better part of a decade, a rare evocation of a New England agricultural tradition.