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«The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: claws, nails, oxen
«Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: crib, ox, oxen
«Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: / All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; / The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fowl, oxen, the fish, The Works
«Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service: / And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ithamar, oxen, wagons
«Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; / And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; / With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; / I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.»
«Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: / That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: / That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: / That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.»
«They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, / And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: captive, oxen
«Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Self-control | Keywords: oxen
«The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.»