Missouri state animal

Usage examples of mule.

She tottered after several aflight and erratic cards, stepping out of her step-in mules.

The Alcalde is a mule, we know that, and anything that serves to magnify himself and his office is likely to be prolonged.

I acceded rather reluctantly to the proposition, though at that time I was incapable of ascertaining his intention, which was, after conducting me to a remote part of the structure, to deliver me into the hands of three ruffians, who, having covered me with a veil so thick as to exclude every object from my view, placed me upon a mule, and conveyed me, regardless of my cries, through the deepest recesses of the woods, when, having arrived at a small inn, situated at the extremity of the forest, we stopped without alighting for refreslnnent.

They cut her in two an' drug her over with twelve head of horses and two mules.

Then again, Ancar had heard that the man had the strength and stamina of one of his mules.

The arriero, the Spanish muleteer in charge of the pack train, rode a mule at the head of a train of twenty mules.

As he advanced into Thrace, the son of Theodemir found an inhospitable solitude, and his Gothic followers, with a heavy train of horses, of mules, and of wagons, were betrayed by their guides among the rocks and precipices of Mount Sondis, where he was assaulted by the arms and invectives of Theodoric the son of Triarius.

Therefore, when Ali Baba arose the next morning, even before the dawn, so that he might drive his mules the incredibly great distance into that portion of the dangerous forest where the best wood might be found, he discovered these twin disasters.

Hence, if we are mining it further away, we will be collecting the bauxite with pickaxe and shovel, carrying it out of the mine by wheelbarrow, hoist, or mine car, and shipping it to the processing plant by pack mule, wagon, barge or ship.

The whole scene, the close, desperate fighting, the carcasses of the mules, the officers and men crouching behind them, the flaming stacks of bhoosa, the flashes of the rifles, and over all and around all, the darkness of the night--is worthy of the pencil of De Neuville.

In horses, mules, and vehicles the richer North wore out the poorer and blockaded South.

They passed the filteration plant, the city mule barns, and then Bowie turned back east and presently they were on a paved, residential street.

Before moonrise, the other mule stumbled into a dry arroyo, pitching Buglet over its head.

The mule was probably bad-tempered because it was burdened with the big Hotchkiss machine gun and ammunition boxes too.

There was a Struggle, a screaming, a mule rolled over, a wounded man sprang up in a cacolet with a spear through him, and then through the narrow gap surged a stream of naked savages, mad with battle, drunk with slaughter, spotted and splashed with blood--blood dripping from their spears, their arms, their faces.