The Emperor T'ang in his prayer, said, "I, the child Li, presume to avail me of an ox of dusky hue, and presume to manifestly announce to Thee, O God, the most high and Sovereign Potentate, that to the transgressor I dare not grant forgiveness, nor yet keep in abeyance Thy ministers.

Thus they fought for nigh a half an hour, until the ground was all plowed up with the digging of their heels, and their breathing grew labored like the ox in the furrow.

He who the ox to wrath has moved Shall never be by woman loved.

She sat in the very middle of a tipcart, with an old and truly picturesque man's hat on her head (quite in the fashion, feminine readers will notice), driving a one-horned ox with a pair of clothes-line reins.

The day of his abjuration the sheik killed in his honor an ox for a festival, and gave to the convert the name of Mahomet.

It would appear, too, that in days gone by, on the eve of All Saints' Day, heath was specially burnt by way of a bonfire: "On All Saints' Day bare is the place where the heath is burnt; The plough is in the furrow, the ox at work.

Besides having a sacred cow, and many varieties of the holy bull, this priest-ridden people worshipped the ox as a symbol of the sun, and offered to it divine honours, as the emblem of frugality, industry, and husbandry.

The next day he bought another and went to the fallow land, but the lion came and took one ox from him and left him only one.

On man we brutal slaves depend: To him all creatures tribute pays, And luxury employs his days.' 80 An ox by chance o'erheard his moan, And thus rebuked the lazy drone: 'Dare you at partial fate repine? How kind's your lot compared with mine!

As you go out from the city by the south gate, and one thousand two hundred paces from it, the Vais'ya head Sudatta built a vihâra, facing the south; and when the door was open, on each side of it there was a stone pillar, with the figure of a wheel on the top of that on the left, and the figure of an ox on the top of that on the right.

You cannot be an ox without previously having been a calf; you acquire taste and sense gradually, and in acquiring them you pass through stages in which you have very little of either.

Our meat was closely packed, and one can form an idea how poor our cattle were from the fact that John and I actually packed seven-eighths of all the flesh of an ox into our knapsacks and carried it away.

He planted two sticks above the water, hung the skin on the sticks, and placed the horns of the ox opposite the road.

I now proceed to consider more particularly why the range of deviation from the average is such that we find about one ox out of fifty to possess sufficient independence of character to serve as a pretty good fore-ox.

It was now nightfall; the day closed with extraordinary abruptness; the sun went down as though he had been struck dead; it was like the fall of an ox under the axe of the butcher.

Rich dreams,and more; their dreams will find fulfilment Their discipline breeds strength'Tis we alone Can join the patience of the labouring ox Unto the eagle's foresight,not a fancy Of ours, but grows in time to mighty deeds; Victories in heavenly warfare: but yours, yours, Sir, Oh, choke them, choke the panting hopes of youth, Ere they be born, and wither in slow pains, Cast by for the next bauble! Lewis.

By which we mean not any bird, That flying in the air may be, Or any ox amongst the herd, Or any fish in stream or sea.