oxen

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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

Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 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

And that is not a good thing for the oxen, Floris M. van Beest explains.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

We passed lots of Basques with oxen, or cattle, hauling carts along the road, and nice farmhouses, low roofs, and all white-plastered.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway