Unless ye thresh and grind, ye hae little chance o' a dinner-"Ni purgas et molas, non comedes;" an auld saying o' Diogenianus, particularly applicable to my father, who had to support, by his industry, an idle sou-bos in stabulo-long, bare-boned, ill-filled up, as hungry and voracious as a Cyclops, and never weel-dined but on the day o' a dead-chack.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
She could become, if we may credit Ovid, Nunc equa, nunc ales, modo bos.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
5, Yak or bos grunniens.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie