Sentences with word «oxen»

"Oxen" refers to the plural form of the word "ox," which is a large, strong adult male of certain animals like cows or bulls. Full definition
Leaving that place (Elijah) came upon Elisha son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he with the twelfth.
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.
Given the facts of the matter, I don't think it is naïve to suggest that young garden farmers take a closer look at horses, mules, even oxen for motive power on their little farms.
Until now.This week, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a list of» «unsung» species under stress from climate change,» from musk oxen in the Arctic to amphibians in Peru.
It encompasses all the customary carnival attractions along with oxen pulls, animal shows, antique car parades, tractor pulls, and live music.
They're built like oxen on steroids, with hands the size of baseball mitts.
Jeremiah dramatized this advice by wearing a wooden yoke, such as oxen wear.
If you're after desolate beaches, rolling hills, the odd appearance of oxen pulling carts, and not much else, then Mbotyi is possibly one of the best hidden secrets in the Eastern Cape's Pondoland.
The eunuch was in a chariot, presumably drawn by oxen since it was moving so slowly that Philip could walk beside it and converse with its occupant.
A goad, such as farmers use on oxen and jockeys on horses, prods to action.
Putney seemed cool, because it was a place where you would drive oxen through the woods, build stone walls, do cross-country skiing.
These things are closer to Clydesdales, or even oxen, than thoroughbreds.
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.
Leaving Hoi An, we transfer by coach to Danang for the train to the vibrant coastal resort of Nha Trang, passing rice paddies and mighty oxen working the countryside.
The Elevation of the Cross (1718), by Mexican painter Antonio de Torres, will enhance LACMA's leading collection of Spanish colonial painting, while Oxen and Shepherds (18th century) by Soga Shōhaku is a rare addition of a large - scale Japanese work for a museum outside of Japan.
Paradoxically, the reason for the cloning was to increase genetic diversity among the dwindling pool of surviving bantengs, a species of large, wild oxen once common in the forests and jungles of Southeast Asia.
Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
In a deep torch lit cavern, beneath the Mormon temple, hundreds of barefoot, white clad youths wait in line to be plunged beneath the water in a bronze tank that rests on the backs of twelve gigantic bronze oxen.
Visitors can also meet the Village oxen, cows, and chickens, learn how to churn butter, and try a variety of hands - on activities make - and - take crafts.
And if there is a TRUTH OR DARE 2, the players only win if they get someone to say, «Olly olly oxen free.»
When Abraham enters into the covenant with Yahweh he slays oxen and parts the beasts in two, creating a corridor drenched in the blood of the sacrificed animals.
This was said as a part of the ceremony ratifying the covenant between God and the people of Israel, when oxen were sacrificed, and Moses, following the ancient custom of the blood covenant, threw half of the blood against the altar and the other half on the people.
Most people are no more likely to regard Christ as a sin - offering who removes our guilt than they are to consider sacrificing oxen on an altar in the neighborhood playground as a way to keep their children safe.
School vacation week visitors can meet the OSV oxen, learn to dip candles and make a variety of hands - on crafts.
There were a variety of petitions circulating, a plethora of hair - ablaze orators constructing soap boxes and more oxen gored than Madonna has exes.
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Under the supervision of Hortense (Nathalie Baye), the women get around on horse - drawn wagons when they are not leading oxen to harvest the land.
It represents an important era in the progression of log hauling techniques, complementing the interior logging exhibits that include oxen hauling and early skid roads.
I want to drink champagne from angry oxen too!
He connects with the material because he grew up in rural Henan province and during his childhood he used to ride oxen.
You're basically looking at oxen, horses, shovels and pick axes,» said Andrew Wolfe, an engineering professor at State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
Simple example: Paul uses the passage from the law about muzzling oxen to support reasonable compensation of elders.
He had grown up, he said, on a farm where oxen were used, and he told how the yokes were fashioned so that they would fit without galling the animal's shoulders.
May someone point out where it is written that man inherits his own kingdom with his choice of a queen, I also find it odd that Mormons have baptism pools with oxen cravings that would make it all a idolitry worship against GOD himself.
I was more worried about why I kept losing oxen every time I had to ford a river or how people in my wagon kept dying of cholera or dysentery.
In such a case, the man should not try to boost his own profits by muzzling his neighbor's oxen so they can not eat while treading out the grain.
Paul then is comparing himself (and all apostles) to a borrowed oxen, a traveling soldier, or someone who tends another man's field.
What political power you can exert, then, if you invite two, three, or ten thousand people to a barbecue, and after filling them with good oxen or sheep, talk to them on the political questions of the day, and introduce your candidates to them!
On this memorable occasion, however — to be exact, on October 18th, 1876 — two fine and bulky oxen were led through New York on their way to Myrtle Park, in Brooklyn, where they were killed in the afternoon.
They were followed by the fishermen of the Danube... who would render their fish - dishes more palatable with the red spice, and at last the Hungarian peasantry, consuming with great gusto the meat of fattened oxen and pigs or tender poultry which were prepared in Paprika - gravy, professed their irrevocable addiction to Paprika, which by then had become a characteristically Hungarian condiment.»

Phrases with «oxen»

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