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  • Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The bitterballen, shown here, is a croquet filled with an ox-tail ragout and topped with mustard relish.

    Modern European Cuisine 2010

  • But I'd noticed that this butcher sells strange things, such as ox-tail, and yes, goat.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007

  • But I'd noticed that this butcher sells strange things, such as ox-tail, and yes, goat.

    Turn Up the Funny, Turn Down the Suck Jay 2007

  • There were five guests, and three silver tureens of soup: viz., mock-turtle soup, ox-tail soup, and giblet soup.

    The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

  • There were about a million herbs and spices going on, and the whole thing was slathered in ox-tail gravy.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • But I have a basin of ox-tail soup, a cutlet, and a woodcock waiting for me at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • They begged a petticoat and hood of the landlady, leaving her in pledge a new cassock of the curate's; and the barber made a beard out of a grey – brown or red ox-tail in which the landlord used to stick his comb.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Kangaroo-tail soup is said to be a renowned delicacy, decidedly superior to ox-tail.

    Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

  • "Ma says to send her another ox-tail, please, an 'ma says the last one was very nice, an' ma says she wants another off the same ox!"

    Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

  • DINER -- "Hello! waiter, where is that ox-tail soup?"

    The New Pun Book Thomas A. Brown

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