"Aurochs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in his "Natural History of the Bible," remarks that there is no doubt of the identity of the unicorn of Scripture with the historic urus or aurochs, known also as the reem, a strong and large animal of the ox-tribe, having two horns. This animal formerly inhabited Europe, including Great Britain, and survived until comparatively recent times, in Prussia and Lithuania. The belief in the existence of a one-horned quadruped is very ancient. ...
— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence
... tried to imitate him, and it seems you tell the truth. I doubted your words, but, as you yourself say, you had little work with the armor-bearer. But if he chopped off the arm of that dog-brother after killing the Aurochs, ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... a vertebra of the Aurochs with an abdominal segment of the crab, he says, "I have insisted upon an identity which has extended to the least important relation of all, ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
... woods were tenanted by wild aurochs and the ibex, but both are extinct now in Hungary. Red-deer and the roe are still common enough. "The wild-cat, fox, badger, otter, marten, and other smaller carnivora are pretty numerous." Mr Danford[11] goes on ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse
... huts of boughs, skins, or other materials. Such an out-door settlement was the station at Solutre, France, where has been found an immense number of bones of horses, reindeers, also, though in less abundance, those of elephants, aurochs, ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen |
