The feeling ran so high that at one time the end of a wagon-tongue was propped up with an ox-yoke by some of the emigrants with the intention of hanging Reed thereon, but calmer counsel prevailed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit. ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
On the opposite side of the hearth, Zenas was crouched upon the floor, laboriously shaping an ox-yoke with a spoke-shave. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Thar in that poked up mess o 'dirt, you see yon weeny chip of ox-yoke? ❋ Eugene O'Neill (1920)
Also the pole was propped up with an ox-yoke so as to make the vehicle level to lie in. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Tyler Sudley's face turned gray, despite his belligerent efficiencies, when his wife, hearing the clank of the ox-yoke as it was flung down in the shed outside, divined the home-coming of the ploughman and his team, and slipped out to the barn with her news. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
She winced to tell him what had happened, but she it was who, bracing her nerves, made the disclosure, for Sudley remained silent, the end of the ox-yoke in his trembling hands, his head bare to the moon and the dew, his face grown lined and old. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
The two negroes at the end of the vista beyond the shed-room, with the ox-yoke and plough-gear which they were mending between them, opened wide mouths and became immovable save for the whites of astonished rolling eyes. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
Saddles and spinning-wheels, an ox-yoke and trace-chains, reels and wash-tubs, were incongruously pushed together in the corners. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
One big buffalo bull became entangled in one of the heavy wagon-chains, and it is a fact that in his desperate efforts to free himself, he not only actually snapped the strong chain in two, but broke the ox-yoke to which it was attached, and the last seen of him he was running towards the hills with it hanging from his horns. ❋ Cody, William F (1879)
The snug, tree-embowered farmhouse looked very inviting, just across the road from the barn; but as no one was about, and no faces appeared at the window that I might judge of the inmates, I contented myself with the hospitality the barn offered, filling my pockets with some dry birch shavings I found there where the farmer had made an ox-yoke, against the needs of the next kindling. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Hallo! here's a dog and a cat, and here's a sheep too, and right here in the corner is a yoke -- a regular ox-yoke. ❋ Unknown (1875)
One big buffalo bull became entangled in one of the heavy wagon-chains, and it is a fact that in his desperate efforts to free himself, he not only snapped the strong chain in two, but broke the ox-yoke to which it was attached, and the last seen of him he was running toward the hills with it hanging from his horns. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
He constantly for months went about with an ox-yoke on his neck, as a symbol of the submission which he advocated. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
In the meantime, Mr.W. had seized the ox-yoke again, and, giving the tiger a tremendous blow, caused it to leave Mrs. W., when it leaped into the house and lot under the bed. ❋ J. C. Swayze (1862)
Mr. W., on going out, discovered his dog engaged with a tiger, when he seized an ox-yoke and aimed a blow at the "varmint," but, missing it, struck his dog. ❋ J. C. Swayze (1862)
We might tell the child that it is a straight line with two bows on the right side of it, and that it is shaped some like the _ox-yoke_. ❋ Ira Mayhew (1854)
It is that of a giant, with something sticking out on each side of his head that resembles a pair of horns, or as if his neck was embraced by an ox-yoke, the tines tending diagonally outwards. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
I have not seen a good harness nor a respectable ox-yoke in Italy, most of the oxen having yokes which a ❋ Horace Greeley (1841)
She shouldn't wear such [tight] [sweaters].They [accentuate] her ox yoke. ❋ Wolfbait51 (2011)
