Sentences with phrase «as oxen»

Built in 1640 as an oxen - powered rum distillery, the historic cottage colony has all the thoughtful touches of a traditional Caribbean inn — island - inspired watercolors hand - painted by Jinx herself, lush tropical gardens, and 23 ocean - view rooms with balconies and kitchenettes — plus plenty more that most hotels don't have.

Their embittered father (Jose Dumont) grows sugarcane and forces his sons to work as hard as the oxen that power the cane mill.

In Ancient Rome, slaves were described as oxen.

Thats what the «good books says» Now more recent versions of «the word of God» have changed these ridiculous creatures to more reasonable creatures, such as oxen, etc. but only because they knew readers with today's knowledge would see this for the rubbish that it is!

Not exact matches

The attentive reader remembers how Elisha kissed his folks goodbye, slaughtered his yoke of oxen, and not only followed Elijah but stuck to him like a burr: «As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.&raquAs the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.&raquas you yourself live, I will not leave you.»

There was a temple to Jupiter in Lystra, and its priest fell in with the populace, bringing with them garlands and oxen to make sacrifice to Barnabas and his companion Paul, believing as they did that they were Jupiter in and Mercury.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

Xenophanes (approximately 570 «500 b.c.) has earned for himself a perpetual place in undergraduate philosophy textbooks with his famous line that «if horses or oxen or lions had hands they could draw with and thus could accomplish such works as men, horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and oxen as similar to oxen, and they would make the bodies of the sort which each of them had.»

Most often, we read these verses as talking about a vineyard owner and an oxen owner, and how the vineyard owner is the one who plants the vineyard and enjoys its harvest, and the oxen owner is the one who should not muzzle the ox, but let it eat some grain at the mill.

John tells us that the merchants were selling «oxen and sheep» as well as pigeons (2:14).

Their answers would often be prefaced with degrading phrases such as «We are stupid, ignorant people who know nothing» or «We are like oxen who know nothing.»

This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief of the Amalekites, in pieces, as you would hew a stick of wood.

Yet the transfer of prophetic mission to Elisha suggests that the tension between the prophet and society will remain: Elisha must abandon his life as an ordinary member of society, bid farewell to his mother and father, and sacrifice the oxen with which he had made his living (I Kings 19:19 - 21)

You're probably familiar with the concept of a yoke as a piece of heavy wood or metal used to steer two oxen in the same direction while they are plowing.

As deer, bear, and other animals became scarce, oxen, sheep, and pigs took their places.

The players were regarded either as young gods by the squares or as stupid, corrupt oxen by my friends.

Old Sturbridge Village Curator Tom Kelleher notes that snow in early New England was actually welcomed by travelers, saying, «Instead of plowing roads clear after a storm as we do today, in the 1800s teams of horses and oxen were driven out to trample the snow down, leaving a hard packed surface for sleighs.

He approached groups of musk oxen dressed as a caribou... and as a polar bear * to see if the animals would ignore him, flee or charge.

As the far north heats up, its inhabitants — from musk oxen to residents of growing cities — are getting ill

As the river widened and the land opened up, we passed bear, musk oxen, and a drowned caribou, its huge rack of antlers still high above the waterline, like the limbs of a half - submerged tree.

They lived as a cross species community with the herd, (horses and oxen) and tended to only eat animals that were old and wouldn't make it through winter etc, rather than our habit of eating the babies.

Jean - Claude Van Damme and Dennis Haysbert also join the fun as Master Croc and Master Oxen, respectively, while poor Victor Garber gets the awesome character name Master Thundering Rhino, only to bite it within seconds of appearing.

Also look for brief appearances by Jean - Claude Van Damme as Master Croc, Michelle Yeoh as The Soothsayer, Dennis Haysbert as Master Oxen, Victor Garber as Master Thundering Rhino, and Danny McBride as the wold bandit.

Cast: Jack Black as Po (voice) Angelina Jolie as Tigress (voice) Gary Oldman as Lord Shen (voice) Seth Rogen as Mantis (voice) Jean - Claude Van Damme as Master Croc (voice) Jackie Chan as Monkey (voice) Dustin Hoffman as Shifu (voice) David Cross as Crane (voice) Lucy Liu as Viper (voice) Michelle Yeoh as The Soothsayer (voice) Dennis Haysbert as Master Oxen (voice) Victor Garber as Master Thundering Rhino (voice) James Hong as Mr. Ping (voice)

If the oxen tried to snatch a mouthful as they passed, Uncle Baldur's whip snapped out.

Green tripe, in its raw, natural state, is the stomach lining of ruminant or grazing animals such as cattle, sheep, bison and oxen.

In centuries past it was used to control oxen for butchering, as a guard dog, and for hunting.

Sail along this extraordinary coastline and encounter wildlife such as narwhal, arctic fox, polar bear and musk oxen, against a backdrop of awe - inspiring scenery.

This beautiful old building that was once used as stabling for oxen and horses in the early 1900's, has been lovingly renovated to offer comfort... Flexible Cancellation!

Iconic Arctic species such as grizzly bears, musk oxen, caribou, and millions of migratory birds rely upon Reserve lands for survival.

Known as the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, the expanse of public land is globally regarded as an ecological treasure, providing a nursery for migratory birds from every continent and free range for iconic species such as grizzly bears, musk oxen.

It's not possible for wind energy, by itself, to EVER do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the archival collection of antiquated technologies (along with such other inadequate energy sources as horse and oxen power).

Because that's what it is as complexities become ever more apparent and the space cadets are stuck wearing a circular rut like an oxen driving a millstone.

It was burned where it lay including as much of the stump below ground as possible so you didn't have to come along later and pull out the stumps one by one with a team of oxen.

As part of the program, scientists have been collecting data on snow cover, wind, rain, temperatures, fjord water chemistry, glaciers, and populations of musk oxen, spiders, insects, birds, and more from around Greenland for decades.