What is "mules"

Usage examples of "mules".

The sun had gone out of the bottom when we finished the fence, that is, left Joby and Loosh with the last three panels to put up, but it was still shining up the slope of the pasture when we rode across it, I behind Father on one of the mules and Ringo on the other one.

Sabbath afternoon, workless, the cotton and corn growing unvexed now, the mules themselves Sabbatical and idle in the pastures, the people still in their Sunday clothes on galleries and in shady yards with glasses of lemonade or saucers of the ice cream left from dinner.

Joby holding the mules like they were sitting down on the whiffletrees and his mouth hanging open and his eyes like two eggs, and I had forgotten what the blue coats looked like.

The three of them went off across the field after the mules, and then we heard the pistols away off like striking a handful of matches at one time, and Joby still sitting on the seat with his mouth still open and the ends of the cut reins in his hands, and Granny still standing in the wagon with the bent umbrella lifted and hollering at Ringo and me while we jumped out of the wagon and ran across the road.

But Marko merely waved and continued on past the mules toward the pine grove on the other side of the trail.

His five mules huddled on the far end of the picket line, their breath misting.

Time enough to listen to his father roar about the loss of the mules and goods.

The mules braced themselves, planting their feet carefully between the worn cobbles.

The committee crowded into the tiny yard until the mules could barely turn.

Ludus told Boon that the tire on one of his wheels had loosened and he had stopped at our house and seen Father, who had told him to drive the wagon into the pond in the pasture where the wood of the wheel would swell back to the tire, and stable and feed the mules in our lot and come and get them in the morning.

Father knew where the mules and wagon were, and it was Father, not Mr Ballott, who owned them.

Now he looked at the already geared-up mules standing there swishing and slapping at mosquitoes while they waited for us.

He just brought the mules up and turned them side by side while Boon and Ned hooked the trace chains to the singletrees and then Boon squatted in the mud to make the log chain fast to the car.

So we moved, ignominious, at the pace of the mules, on, into the next mudhole without stopping, on and out again.

Before we reached the stable Joby and Loosh came into sight beyond the pasture fence, bringing the mules up from the new pen.