Word: oxen
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These masses, probably over 400,000,000 in number, perform the work of horses and oxen in the agricultural districts and of steam and electricity in the cities. "China," said Dr. Eliot, "is the one country visited in which I found human muscle for every purpose the cheapest form of power...
...conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...
From sheep or oxen burly...
...Especially is this case in a swift run when the horse is in the air more than half the time. With the stereoptican and Zoopraxiscohe the movements of horses walking, trotting cantering, jumping, etc., men walking, running, boxing, wrestling, turning somersaults, leaping, etc., as well as different movements of oxen, goats and dogs were clearly portrayed. A number of pictures of old models constructed by the ancients and intended to show animals in motion, when compared with the cuts taken by Mr. Muybridge served to show the erroneous impressions held by even the most observing of the ancient...
...glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard. Skiapous lost fourteen pounds on that trip...