Sentence examples for a pair of oxen from inspiring English sources

A man plows a field with the help of a pair of oxen.

A pair of oxen swayed past drawing a sledge piled with timber.

On the earliest chariots the wheels rotated on a fixed axle that was linked by a draft pole to the yoke of a pair of oxen.

He learned how to do his own smithing and shoeing and raised a pair of oxen during a stay in Iowa.

Legend says the bones landed at a small bay 10km south of Bari in 1087, and were dragged by a pair of oxen towards the centre of the city.

And an e-mail from my father, with a photo of him and my grandfather plowing the fields with a pair of oxen during a summer visit in 1948.

They moved out of the city, to a hundred-acre farm near Mansfield Center, Connecticut, where Kunitz plowed the fields with a pair of white oxen and sold herbs to markets in Hartford.

The idea of sustainability runs so deep that instead of machines fueled by diesel, a pair of working oxen have tilled the fields for the better part of a decade, a rare evocation of a New England agricultural tradition.

Their enemies are more prosperous and more numerous: the blind Ferreira patriarch lives in a handsome villa with his grandsons and their wives, while the Breveses have been reduced to a single nuclear family with a creaky cane mill and a pair of exhausted oxen.

Patches and his half-brother Freckles — a pair of American lineback oxen who live at Centennial Farm — stood quietly in the sun alongside their oxen teamster, Nancy Truglio.

In Fig. 6, the bare Pt shows a pair of oxidation (E ox) and reduction (E red) peak potentials at 319 and 181 mV ascribed to Fe3+/Fe2+.