Oxhides

For even now it is an abomination with the Colchians to burn dead men with fire; nor is it lawful to place them in the earth and raise a mound above, but to wrap them in untanned oxhides and suspend them from trees far from the city. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)

But despite the small demand for beef and butter a good many cattle are raised; for oxen are needed for the plowing and carting, oxhides have a steady sale, and there is a regular call for beehives for the hecatombs at the great public sacrifices. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)

Ajax received it on his shield, which was made of seven folds of oxhides and an eighth fold of solid brass. ❋ Michael Clarke (1880)

He wanted next a bag with some provisions; they had to make one out of fifteen oxhides, and they filled it with food, and away he went down the hill with the bag on his back and the club on his shoulder. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

a mound above, but to wrap them in untanned oxhides and suspend them from trees far from the city. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bind them about thy hands; thou shalt learn and tell another how skilled I am to carve the dry oxhides and to spatter men’s cheeks with blood.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bind them about thy hands; thou shalt learn and tell another how skilled I am to carve the dry oxhides and to spatter men's cheeks with blood. " ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)

"A sick person," writes Galton (190), "meets with no compassion; he is pushed out of his hut by his relations away from the fire into the cold; they do all they can to expedite his death, and when he appears to be dying, they heap oxhides over him till he is suffocated. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)