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  • His face was stolid and ox-like, and as he shuffled and dragged his brogans over the deck he paused every several steps to place both hands on his abdomen and execute a queer, pressing, lifting movement.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • They taught you to kneel, heavy and ox-like, in the rice fields.

    1958-1961 Julie Leung 2010

  • Slow and ox-like, on the face of the Swede dawned relief and comprehension.

    THE END OF THE STORY 2010

  • In the video's climactic scene, Kan Ni Mei, the blue, armored, ox-like hero, faces off with a villain sent by Harmony who threatens to destroy the gamers with the "power of Green Dam" — a reference to the Web-filtering software that the government last year tried to compel personal-computer makers to install on all PCs sold in China.

    Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship Loretta Chao 2010

  • Kevin A. using his ox-like road legs to kick-up some dust

    Archive 2009-10-01 Michelle Vercellino 2009

  • Kevin A. using his ox-like road legs to kick-up some dust

    MORE COWBELL: Frisco - Day 2 Michelle Vercellino 2009

  • Pope also gave what may be the only, very unflattering, pen portrait of Haywood, 'yon Juno of majestic size/With cow-like udders, and with ox-like eyes.'

    Eliza Haywood (c.1693-1756) 2008

  • Not that the clashes of class and race are entirely absent in Chalk; they are simply subordinated to a more ox-like lack of communication between the pitifully well-meaning pedagogues and their recalcitrant charges.

    Blackboard Jungle ���07: School Crisis Spelled Out in Chalk 2007

  • Visitors to the state-run Chivero conservancy, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of Harare, this week reported seeing no wildbebeest, an ox-like gnu, and were told by rangers most of the herd was shot for

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Fundamentalist readings of Revelations are an exercise in interpretive ingenuity in service to an ox-like stupidity.

    Mark Hartwig's "Homer Moment" - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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