Sentences with phrase «oxen working»

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.

All agreed it was a wonderful program, although Cuba itself was found to be a country of contradictions and beauty: from the modern city of Havana to the oxen working the fields; comfortable air - conditioned bus to people travelling by horseback along the highways; from tiny Bee Hummingbirds to giant anoles.

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Coming down from the mountain, Elijah finds his successor working behind 12 yoke of oxen, plowing his family's field.

Things of this kind are from God: the fertile land, moderate winds, abundance of seeds, the work of the oxen, and other things by which a farm is brought to productivity and abundance... But the avaricious one has not remembered our common nature, and has not thought of distribution...»

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.»

Before, we did work with muscle power, animal power (horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels), wind power on the oceans and in gristmills, a little hydropower, and open fire.

In preliminary work, European archaeologists had fired reproductions of Upper Paleolithic points made of antler at the carcasses of oxen and deer, then studied the marks that they left on the bones.

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

Population: 51,486,253 Area: 676,578 km2 Location: South East Asia Capital city: Nay Pyi Taw Estimated working animal population: 19,093,000 horses, elephants, mules and oxen

We are working in rural areas to provide veterinary care for working animals, especially oxen, which are heavily depended upon by communities to pull ploughs and transport produce.

Alongside working camels, oxen and other animals, this undervalued workforce is essential to the health and economic wellbeing of millions of vulnerable families.

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.

At the center of it is a way of managing a cattle herd virtually unique in modern farming (though it wouldn't have been far out of place in pre-industrial times): No cows, bulls or oxen are killed at all; all cows are hand - milked; cows suckle from their mothers; and bulls are given work.