Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxers
Literary usage of Oxers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"... an attempt to give a graphic description of glorious runs, oxers, safely
negotiated, brooks gallantly charged, rides home along frusty roads, ..."
2. Southern History of the War: The Second Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"The result of all this immense and boasted superiority on the part of the North,
coupled with the most immense oxers tions is, that the South remains ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"... and' Nimrod' would probably find it an even easier matter than in the days
of' oxers ' to keep in the first flight from Melton Mowbray. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1895)
"... hounds are not continually in full cry ; nor does the average son or daughter
of Artemis jump many "oxers," "bullfinches," five-barred gates, ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"The distance isn't much, but I'll trouble you for the 'oxers.' Xo horse that can
go straight in that country should slip through your fingers. ..."
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