Mules

Examples

• We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Five mules were allotted to each wagon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is then dragged out by horses or mules, another is let into the ring, and the same performance is renewed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With a full corps of assistants, other teamsters, he would then proceed to get his mules together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The machinery was taken up in pieces on the backs of mules from the foot of the mountain. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two mules to carry the shells and a mule with a mortar on each side of the pack saddle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• All goods were put up in compact packages of about one hundred pounds each, suitable for loading on pack mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The mules may transport the litter, and we have led horses for the old man and his daughter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I directed him to take mules, officers' horses, or animals wherever he could get them to move the necessary artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The local people called them 'narrow-gauge mules. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Other mules had arrived not long before, some with peasant riders and some with goods, and had trodden the snow about the door into a pool of mud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The first motion was generally five mules in the air at one time, backs bowed, hind feet extended to the rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• No, two mules to carry ammunition. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At this moment Gurth appeared on the opposite side of the moat with the mules. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The roads were strewn with the debris of broken wagons and the carcasses of thousands of starved mules and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From there passengers were carried by boats to Gorgona, at which place they took mules for Panama, some twenty-five miles further. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wagons and harness could easily be supplied from the north but mules and horses could not so readily be brought. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• After they had started, the tents and cooking utensils had to be made into packages, so that they could be lashed to the backs of the mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I hired two mules, with a guide, to show me the way, and carry my small baggage. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Look after their horses and mules, and see their train lack nothing. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The next day we pursued our journey upon mules; and as we ascended still higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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