Sentences with phrase «like oxen»

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.

They're built like oxen on steroids, with hands the size of baseball mitts.

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.»

Dinosaurs did not chew their cud like oxen or cattle.

He suggested that oxen, lions and horses, if they could make gods, would make them like oxen, lions and horses.

They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.»

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.

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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.»

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.»

The poor are not oxen - like workers ordained to be subservient to the rich but dignified human beings created in the image of God.

Oxen like education and health care are rarely gored during even - numbered years in Albany, even with deficits.

Did Illinois Giannoulias, Florida's Crist, California's Angelides and New York's Gianaris apply Greek budgeting techniques like Sarbanes Oxen?

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

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.

Rooster / cancer I'm a rooster / cancer that would like to meet online an asian lady to get to know hoping to find a sign match.if you are a Snake or a Oxen, with the sun sign of scorpio, taurus, picies, or capricorn, that would be a good place to start.

You start hearing about the pioneers and the covered wagons from the oxen in like third grade.

The waiters poured champagne into crystal glasses shaped like angry oxen and the chef came out from the kitchen to personally thank you for being an American Express Platinum cardmember and a better human being than him.

Colose the Faithful and Lacis the University of Iowa Wunderkind have «CO2 control knob on the brain syndrome» which, like blinders on a cornhusker oxen, makes the larger processes on a water world largely inconsequential to their restricted view of the world.

Looks like Western academic jesters of the Left are doing their evil best to trump reason — on our dime... and, we're going to bled dry like ritual oxen if we don't begin the process of downsizing the Government - Education Complex before it's too late.