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  • Through the open doors, up the avenue of trees, he could see an ox-wagon slowly retreating.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • I met him first on a river boat, and we were going to the same place, on a hunting trip; we agreed to go together up-country by ox-wagon when we came to the end of the railway.

    Pan 2003

  • He heard the faint rumble of an ox-wagon: then leaves in a wind: then a faint tapping noise: then the creak of some bird calling.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Sharpe said, staring down into the courtyard where Tubbs's ox-wagon waited for the muskets.

    Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

  • "I don't know why they bother to send a full Commissary to do this work, " Sharpe said, staring down into the courtyard where Tubbs's ox-wagon waited for the muskets.

    Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

  • The old ox-wagon and the orange tree made way for two Khoisan figures, a pair of elephants tusks and a spear on Thursday, when

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • September 29, 1896, and was the daughter of an ox-wagon transport rider, Alex Bain, and his wife, Emily.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Afrikaners should beware of being "taken back into an ox-wagon laager".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Afrikaans was past the ox-wagon era and in a new world.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Fourteen years after the end of white rule and more than a century after colonisation, a white family's plan to commemorate the arrival of their ancestors by ox-wagon has been denounced as threatening a race war.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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