Sentences with phrase «drive oxen»

Putney seemed cool, because it was a place where you would drive oxen through the woods, build stone walls, do cross-country skiing.

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15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers» money, and overthrew the tables;

33 That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles» feathers and his nails like birds» claws.

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.

Wildlife researcher Joel Berger dons a polar bear outfit to study the reactions of musk oxen to the threat of bears increasingly driven onto the land for food.

And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers» money, and overthrew the tables.

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.

Oxen could be seen on Main Street, horses powered the farmers plow, and Laurens Road at Pleasantburg Drive was a long dusty ride from town.