water ox

Still some hours away, coming no faster than the pace of their water oxen.

One could "be" a water ox with about two-thirds of it.

I heard him sigh, "wait," or some such word, blown through his water ox throat.

The last coin I had had been spent on the wagon and water oxen.

The sound of her voice made me shiver involuntarily; perhaps any water ox would have shivered at it.

Water oxen were more rural animals, certainly smellier ones.

Those mental midgets in the wagon train did not even notice that they had two identical water oxen.

The animals hitched to it were probably mostly water oxen, though the parentage of either could have been questioned.

He turned to cover the contents of the bundle again, quickly, but the water ox which was Peter had seen, seen, seen.

Peter, water ox, could not watch.

Water oxen have horns, usually blunted.

Therefore, what Dolwys and I became might not have been called water oxen but something else, not totally unlike.

The wagons creaked along behind their teams, some of horses and some of water oxen, and the persons driving were silent.

The water oxen had found a convenient wallow at the side of the road where a canal spilled into a little slough, and they refused to plod another step.

We found a twist in the road behind a long, crumbling wall, unharnessed the water oxen and drove them away down the slope of the meadow toward a distant line of trees which marked a stream.

At any rate, by morning I was an unremarkable water ox, driven from my graze to a wagon and hitched there, able to see Izia whenever I swung my head in her direction.

There was little traffic in any direction; woodwagons moving from forest to village, water oxen shuffling from mire to meadow, a gooseherd keeping his hissing flock in order with a long; blossomy wand.

There was an hour or so of usual travel, farm wagons, a herd of water oxen, a girl leading three farm zeller by the rings in their noses, their udders swinging full before milking.

The pace of the water oxen may have been as much as a league an hour, when they hurried, which they were inclined to do only toward evening when it grew cool and they sensed water ahead.

The water oxen were now plodding along in starlight, and we had to give serious consideration to stopping for the night so they could browse and we could eat and sleep, preparatory to our mad gallop into tomorrow behind the faithful team.

In this canoe sat sixteen rowers or paddle-men--I remember there were sixteen of them because at the time Hans remarked that the number was the same as that of a wagon team and subsequently called these paddlers "water oxen."

Lost in the Translation Mr. Jacobowitz, who was born in Israel, said the remark had no racial significance, arguing that he was reaching for the word "behayma," Hebrew for "water oxen" or, in slang, "foolish person."

Dolwys whiffled as though startled, and I remembered that I was a water ox which would have been startled at such a sight and whiffled with him, hearing Izia's voice, "Shaaa, shaaa, shaa, still now, nothing to bother about, my strong ones.

The Blot I WAS ACCEPTED AMONG THE WATER OXEN as a water ox, that is, after I had laid hands upon the real beast enough to know how one was made.