Donkeys

Examples

• The donkeys fell down and spilt us over their heads occasionally, but there was nothing for it but to mount and hurry on again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We scrambled up the steep bank at the shabby town of Ghizeh, mounted the donkeys again, and scampered away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We took little donkeys and started. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The donkeys were all good, all handsome, all strong and in good condition, all fast and all willing to prove it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and meand my caro sposo walking by. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am very glad it is our privilege to have donkeys instead of cars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The latter trait shows how little better they are than the donkeys they eat and sleep with. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as these, I think, or that had so many vile, exasperating instincts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The little donkeys had saddles upon them which were made very high in order that the rider's feet might not drag the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We mounted, and the boys ran behind us and kept the donkeys in a furious gallop, as is the fashion at Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The boys crowded about us, clamored around us, and slewed their donkeys exactly across our path, no matter which way we turned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A fall from one of those donkeys is of little more consequence than rolling off a sofa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We left the train and mounted the donkeys, along with our invited guests--pleasant young gentlemen from the officers' list of an American man-of-war. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were good-natured rascals, and so were the donkeys. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We are about starting to the illustrious Pyramids of Egypt, and the donkeys for the voyage are under inspection. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the morning we sent for donkeys. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The donkeys all stood still after the catastrophe and waited for their dismembered saddles to be patched up and put on by the noisy muleteers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I do not know what 'recherche' is, but that is what these donkeys were, anyhow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We brought sixty scarcely perceptible donkeys in the freight cars, for we had much ground to go over. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As we came down through the town we encountered a squad of little donkeys ready saddled for use. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Rhoda