black ox

sacrificed to Pluto; symbolic of calamity. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 790]

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Stop him!" The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, "Holloa, young thief!" One black ox, with a white cravat on - who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air - fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!

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Most recently, he served as Founder and CEO of Black Ox Advisors, LLC, a diversified financial and investment advisory Firm.

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The black ox encompasses all potential and subconscious stories of me and us," Hwang said.

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Sample dish: Traditional homemade cow pie | carnearmsllysworney.co.uk THE BLACK OX, ABERGWILI Set in the small Carmarthenshire village of Abergwili, The Black Ox's steaks are famous.

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"The white ox has got all the pasture; the black ox has nowhere to graze ...

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The Bank of the Black Ox, eventually to become Lloyds-TSB, was established to protect drovers' earnings.

The changing face of Welsh farming; THE DAILY POST'S RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR ANDREW FORGRAVE MARKS A CENTURY AND A HALF OF AGRICULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT

The festival is organized around a contest between two Ox groups: Garantido [Secure], represented by a white ox with a red heart on its forehead, and Caprichoso [Capricious], represented by a black ox with a blue star on its forehead.

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I got it rounding the Horn in rough trade, foul weather, lashed to the mast, loony as a snowbird, wailing, wailing like Ma Rainey for all those the black ox has taken away - the little gray lady on the subway, the red Indian of the sun.

Rounding the horn

THE BLACK OX High Street, Abergwili It may have reopened earlier this year as a gastropub, but the Black Ox is still a popular watering hole among people in Abergwili and beyond.

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On Saturday they will be guests at a unique drovers' parade, organised by the Welsh Black Cattle Society to comemorate the setting up the Black Ox Bank by David Jones in the late 18th century, which later evolved into Lloyds TSB.

Blacks lose by a whisker; Tuesday July 20 2004. . . the day in pictures by Robert Parry Jones

The first Drovers' Festival was staged in the town in 1997 in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the Black Ox bank.

Carmarthen Antiques and Flea Market celebrates Wales' drovers

The New King George pub and Lolfa Lounge in Carmarthen have price guides totalling PS200,000; the Black Ox in Abergwili is priced at PS135,000 and the Cresselly Arms in Pontargothi for sale at PS220,000.