ox
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According to the biblical Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia spent seven years in the wilderness eating grass and behaving like an ox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"This time of year there is not much to hunt. So we rely on musk ox meat and skin," Kleist says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
There has been some success with the Australian government's crown-of-thorns starfish culling programme, which has killed over 50,000 starfish by injecting them with vinegar or ox bile.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
As the pit was opened, the eagle swooped down and seized in its claws the two rear haunches of the ox, along with a shoulder, and began to tear at it with a ravenous beak.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
As a teen, he divided his time between school and driving oxen to till the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
I picked up my stick, banged the oxen on their rumps and they heaved and grunted and started off.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
With protectionist trade policies, there's a very strong likelihood that there may be more oxes gored than lambs saved.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
Partly it’s cultural inertia, but I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that the companies whose oxes are being gored own some of the nation’s tallest soapboxes.
From Forbes ● Jul. 11, 2011
She jumps on the cart and Wilf snaps the reins on his oxes.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Wid my chyart an' oxes stan'in' 'roun', Her pretty liddle foot needn' tetch de groun'.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
Gwineter hitch my oxes side by side, An' take my gal fer a big fine ride.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
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