Hack an axe, hook an oxe, hath an an, heth hith ences. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Other, ymages of yoten metalle, manie of them an oxe. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When they chance to come at any bad passage, they let them loose, and guide them ouer one by one: for they goe a slowe pace, as fast as a lambe or an oxe can walke. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And for many more "stag beetle" terms, see Maria Fremlin's Vernacular and dialect names of Stag Beetles Lucanus cervus in various countries, from which you will learn that the Swedish name is ek 'oak' + oxe 'bull'; you will also find well over a dozen German names, the last of which is the cognate Eichochs. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And if they chance to haue an oxe or an horse dye, they drie the flesh thereof: for cutting it into thin slices and hanging it vp against the Sunne and the wind, it is presently dried without salt, and also without stenche or corruption. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Troglodites that are called Magaueres, carye for theyr armour and weapon, a rounde buckler of a rawe oxe hide, and a clubbe shodde with yron. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From thence they proceeded vnto a countrey lying vpon the Ocean sea, where they found certaine monsters, who in all things resembled the shape of men, sauing that their feete were like the feete of an oxe, and they had in deede mens heads but dogges faces. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This people worshippeth also a dead idole, which, from the nauel vpward, resembleth a man, and from the nauel downeward an oxe. ❋ Unknown (2004)
M. miles, wherein men and women haue dog faces, and worship an oxe for their god: and therefore euery one of them cary the image of an oxe of gold or siluer vpon their foreheads. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They that are nowe so fiebled with age, that they can no longer followe the heard: winding the tayle of an oxe aboute their throte choke vp and die. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They make of their oxe skins great bladders or bags, which they doe wonderfully dry in the smoake. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And that in no wise the chalice or paten were made of the horne of an oxe, bicause the same is bloudie of nature: nor the host of a crust, but of pure bread. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Take the oxe pallets and boil them tender, blanch them and cut them ❋ Robert May (N/A)
Take clary, dates, the pith of an oxe, and chop them together, put some cream to them, eggs, grated bread, and a little white saunders, temper them all well together fry them, and eat it in the morning fasting. ❋ Robert May (N/A)
Thus also you may do heifers 'udders, oxe-cheeks, or neats-tongues, being first tender broild or roasted. ❋ Robert May (N/A)
I heard her, I could not hold open my eyes any longer, and ran home by daylight, like a vintner whose house had been robb'd: But coming by the place where the cloaths were turned to stone, I saw nothing but a puddle of blood; and when I got home, found mine host lying a-bed like an oxe in his stall, and a chirurgeon dressing his neck. ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)
