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Meanings of whole ox in English

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Usage of whole ox in English
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The bride ate a whole ox and eight salmon before the others had a bite.
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold...
2
After the salmon he ate a whole ox.
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
3
A whole ox and all the fixings.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
4
In the Kinkels' apartment it smelled of beef broth, as if they had cooked a whole ox.
The Clown
5
The thick part of a thin flank is the most profitable part in the whole ox to buy.
The American Frugal Housewife
6
After a time, he found a man who was eating a whole ox, and he hired him too.
Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning; With Some Account of Dwel...
7
They wax wonderfully, have to be fed a whole ox a day, and proceed to poison and waste the countryside.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
8
Under that great stone arch a dozen spits, each big enough to hold a whole ox, might easily have swung.
The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers
9
This evening we will have fireworks in the square, roast a whole ox, invite the neighbors, and dance about a maypole.
In Luck at Last
10
Every week the association would buy a whole ox, and some sheep, and the women would make bread, as in the country.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
11
I could eat a whole ox, like the Homeric hero, but I shall have to content myself with a piece of hard bread.
Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
12
Then he unlocked the door and let out the strong East Wind, but caught the others in a great bag made of a whole ox-hide.
Classic Myths
13
In the Morning we got on board a whole Ox, which we cut up and salted.
Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World /...
14
'Are you cooking a whole ox on there?'
Sovereign
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