ox-cart

"The nomad who walks or rides, with his baggage stowed on a camel or an ox-cart, may suffer every kind of discomfort, but at least he is living while he is travelling; whereas for the passenger in an express train or a luxury liner his journey is an interregnum, a kind of temporary death."

Has technology robbed travel of its riches? 2011

Associated Press An ox-cart race in Prey Ta-auk village in Kampong Speu province, west of Phnom Penh, on Sunday, part of a ceremony held after the rice harvestn.

Southeast Asia in Pictures 2012

The automobile is a more cunning artifice than the ox-cart, the subway than a palanquin.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

But for the curious traveler, half the adventure of Naypyidaw is getting there -- the capital is tucked away in a mountain jungle, an eight - to 10-hour drive along ox-cart roads.

Brand New Cities 2010

Kalua, the driver of the ox-cart, was a giant of a man, but he made no move to help his passenger and was careful to keep his face hidden from him: he was of the leather-workers 'caste and Hukam Singh, as a high-caste Rajput, believed that the sight of his face would bode ill for the day ahead.

Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh 2008

Soon a squeaking wheel announced the arrival of the ox-cart that would take Hukam Singh to the factory where he worked, in Ghazipur, three miles away.

Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh 2008

I could have pointed out that the price of her sandals would have kept a hundred Jhansi coolie families all their lives, and that she'd never been within ten yards of an ox-cart, but I was tactful.

Fiancée 2010

Just this year, the Mayor invented electricity and the internal combustion engine, bringing joy and light to a full two percent of the population, while bright rust-red Yugos make an increasingly occasional appearance on Mitchieville's ox-cart tracks.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

The measure is difficult to compute, as a US dollar value has to be assigned to all goods and services in the country regardless of whether these goods and services have a direct equivalent in the United States (for example, the value of an ox-cart or non-US military equipment); as a result, PPP estimates for some countries are based on a small and sometimes different set of goods and services.

Notes and Definitions 2008

But they arrive via ox-cart, row boat, and dog-sled–very, very slowly.

Blathering Lockdown: Day One « Whatever 2008