Sentence examples for team of oxen from inspiring English sources

The locomotive stalled and had to be helped by a team of oxen.

"I just find a team of oxen more beautiful than a John Deere tractor".

In March 1830 the Lincoln family undertook a second migration, this time to Illinois, with Lincoln himself driving the team of oxen.

Carandini believes that inscribed artifacts he discovered on the Palatine Hill bear out the ancient tradition that Romulus used a team of oxen to dig the outlines of a murus sanctus, a sacred wall, on the future site of Rome.

This was exemplified by a series of demonstrations Mr. Wiggins conducted to show the slowness of local mail: he sent a letter by a team of oxen to Surry, 10 miles away.

Research has indicated that a team of oxen, yoked to a log platform, would drag a salamander to the river where it would be dumped out of the way.

Next, the ax men would cleave the trunks into 14-foot-long logs and stack them, using teams of oxen.

Elsewhere in the Basque country spectators were gambling on teams of oxen dragging heavy boulders across cobblestones and on burly giants chopping logs.

Not willing to lose their homes as well as the land, the residents used teams of oxen to jack up the houses and relocate them, Ms. Koehl said.

Antonio Totorikaguena has led more than 9,000 teams of oxen in a career that has earned him the title of the Lion of Markina, a fiercely nationalist village five miles from Larruskain.

The stones were then hauled over Talcott Mountain to the factory by teams of oxen in the warm months and by sled in the winter, according to Dr. Lawrence S. Carlton, a member of the Canton Historical Society's board of directors.