dumb ox
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The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are said to have called him the dumb one, or sometimes because of his bulkiness even as a youth, the dumb ox.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Tradition says he was a taciturn and seemingly dull boy, derisively nicknamed by his fellows "the dumb ox," but admired by his teachers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
But Bull's own bull, the English bull, is "a dumb ox of thought"; a standing mystification in the mind.
From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
