Word: oxen
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...emerged from the Imperial Palace in their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut off, and in the gathering dusk thousands of lanterns winked and iron braziers flared along the funeral way. The hearse, 23 ft. long, 12 ft. high and 12 ft. wide rumbled forth, drawn by oxen, and emitting from its wooden wheel-hubs four differently pitched notes: "the sacred mournful sounds." When the great funeral pavilion was reached, the body was placed upon an altar and the Emperor bowed low before it. Picking up a branch of evergreen he placed it on the altar, beside...
...committee of the Diet reported favorably last week the funeral budget bill, providing for a total expenditure of 2,980,000 yen ($1,490,000) on the state funeral which will be held late in February. Among other expenses will be the permanent support of the oxen used to draw the Imperial Hearse, since these animals never thereafter perform labor of any kind...
...father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pasture and meadow lands. He had, I suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean...
...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...
Sixty white oxen drew this country's first steam mill across the continent, to Sutter. Shiploads of firearms, seeds, implements, nails, clothing rounded the Horn annually, for Sutter. The world's soundest banks were pleased to extend credit to America's biggest landlord, Johann August Sutter...