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Sentence Examples Throwbacks to a swell fashion trend of yesteryear, they spice up any pair of shoes, from ballet flats to mules or slinky stilettos. There are slides, mules, comfy slip-ons in leather and suede, corduroy or shearling. Irritated, he grabs the bridle on one of the mules spooking it and causing it to throw its rider. A train of twenty-eight mules would carry about four tons, a similar number of horses about three tons. Because of them, hundreds of other horses, donkeys, and mules will be saved and will know love. He said that horses and mules and donkeys were attracted to a nearby spring. It begins where the mules are tied up on the trailhead, and was originally worn out by bighorn sheep. You can't be too careful, with uncastrated, ephebic sophomore mules, wherever you go in the world. Donkeys and mules need to be dewormed regularly, so check with your veterinarian to set up a schedule. Mules and hinnies are virtually always sterile, but male mules should be gelded to keep them tractable. The Toe to Tow Marathon is a fall classic that follows the path where mules once pulled barges along the Erie Canal. They treated the mules as pets, fed them treats, cleaned their stables, treated their sores, and even shared plugs of tobacco with them. The cavalry turned in its horses for pack mules because mules could carry artillery pieces through rugged terrain. Your pedicured toes won't be peeping through colourful mules for quite some time. Perhaps we should outlaw the internal combustion engine and return to a transportation system of mules and big sway-backed sheep. Eric and Michael had to swap the comfort of motor transport for pack mules and on foot. From the late 15th to the mid 17th century, overshoes shaped like mules, called pantofles, were worn to protect the front of the shoes. She was wearing a hideous brown dress, complete with mules and a patent black belt. Now, we've got a house on V street, around the corner, that we suspect is being used by bootlegger's and drug stoolies as a depot for mules. He broke off to kick one of the mules on the haunch as it stamped uneasily towards the side. Show More Sentences It used mules to haul two ore cars and a flatcar one and a half miles between its mill at the foot of the mountains and its mine. The innkeeper himself greeted Adriana and directed the stabling of the mules and carriages, with grand flourishes and bellowed commands. The mules brayed in fear as the cart driver hauled back on the reigns, bringing the wagon to a shuddering halt. Quickly slipping her feet into a pair of red mules, Kelly went downstairs to investigate. Instead, Rasband suggests finding a decent pair of microfiber or leather mules. Avoid skinny heels, even if they're low, and avoid mules or slingbacks until you're more comfortable. She set down her bag and kicked off her tan suede mules as she walked back to her bedroom. Right now, she's into mules, but I'll take any of her slingbacks and high-heeled sandals. The problem with the walk across the beach is that it is a stone beach, not a speck of sand in sight, and I am wearing stiletto-heeled mules. She chose a pair of jeans instead of a summery skirt, a T-shirt over a singlet top, and mules over sandals. I prefer to go barefoot, but I have trainers, high heeled mules, loafers and flipflops. The pointy-toed trend is prevalent in practically every style from slingbacks and mules to flats, boots and everything in between. A bare foot is what grips your foot to the shoe and keeps the mules from being treacherous. If you are looking for something more formal or trendy, go with mules, sleek leathers and simple designs and soles. Other activities will include Victorian toys to play with and demonstrations of the mill's spinning mules, waterwheel and the power loom. They had a couple of spinning mules set up, either at home or in a rented room, or in a stall at one of the new mills. Some of the considerable biodiversity of corals may come from underwater versions of mules, say researchers. Finch mules have always been more difficult to breed than the canaries or finches themselves, but some were less difficult than others. This is an indication that international drugs gangs are increasingly using mules to smuggle the narcotic into the country. The wagoner's job was to load the wagon with feed for the regiment's horses and mules and to drive it. Show More Sentences Our private transportation will take us to the town of Cachora where our mule wanglers, mules and horses are waiting. Police said he had been contracting drug mules to swallow and smuggle cocaine into Europe. A third of the sappers and gunners were casualties, and nearly all the mules were dead or streaming with blood. Heels range from lofty stiletto to non existent, but kitten heels and flat mules appear to be the most popular. A pair of Benedictine friars riding on mules and wearing dust-goggles,, appear ahead on the road. The party also included two flagmen, two chainmen, three axemen, a cook, and a teamster to look after two wagons and a pack train of mules. The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative. In the drug world, mules are used to carry the product into countries without being detected. Dealers and runners and mules and nine-year-old lookouts would be off street corners, and out of the line of fire. I have a newfound respect for the Arabian breed, but was proud to see several Appaloosas, Quarter Horses, and even a few mules competing. She watered the mules at the stableyard fountain, rubbed them down, and let them rest in a patch of shade. Urged on by the players, the drivers of the mules took some frightening risks. The pack mules carrying the gold ore scattered in all directions, spilling ore over a wide area. Most of the teamsters hired were farmers or men who had the necessary teams of mules and draft horses available to cope with this demanding job. A popular method is to have mules carry different gun parts to their destination. I turned and saw a dark blot on the snow meandering slowly towards us down the bank, which after a moment resolved itself into a ragged man leading a pair of mules. Donkeys, mules, oxen, and water buffalo carry loads, as do the offspring of the temperamental yaks, which are kept only to crossbreed with cattle. Meanwhile, two civilian packers and their laggardly pack mules loaded with howitzer ammunition hove into sight from the south, hurrying to reach the command. The last to take the runway was a shimmering gold, high-low gown with two elbow length cuffs, a thick choker, and heeled mules. Cars were still relatively new and many's the tale I've heard of wagons laden with hand-picked cotton that were so heavy the mules strained to pull the enormous load. Show More Sentences The trip will be led by a multi-lingual guide, local cooks and mules. Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable. The Border Patrol checkpoint rarely catches drug mules making their way from Mexico or border crossers hidden in trunks. I love reading about flying daredevils who rode the wings of biplanes in the 1930s, or Kentucky farmers who plowed their fields with teams of matched mules. Loose hem-lines, closed-toe Manolo Blahnik mules, and tight black headbands. The shock came yesterday, after one of the mules kicked another. But because mules are sterile, breeding new champions is difficult. They hopped off their horses, not bothering to unload the mules. Being the offspring of a male donkey and a mare, mules are sterile. The mules were unloaded and swam across, following the bell mare. We're two stubborn old mules who need to have their own way. The profits are enormous and there is no shortage of impoverished drugs mules prepared to swallow tiny packets of pure cocaine and smuggle them into Britain. Police warned that she and other sniffer dogs would be regularly used to stop so-called human mules bringing down drugs from London to sell in Southampton and Portsmouth. Drug mules, long agreed by all as the real carriers of weapons of mass destruction, routinely elude the army, security guards and high-tech scanners. Again, the harshest punishments often go to street dealers and mules who don't have much information about the drug world to give prosecutors in exchange for a lower sentence. Within 30 years 120,000 people were working on spinning mules across the UK and it was estimated that 700,000 depended on them indirectly for their livelihood. Avoid shallow styles like most sandals and mules and don't go barefoot. And, unless you are adept at teetering in mules, wearing shoes without tights is uncomfortable, especially if you have to walk more than a few yards. I also don't think I can continue to wear my loafer mules for much longer. These dolls express the ethos of their time, which has changed considerably in the 40 years since Barbie first wobbled out in her steep stiletto mules. Show More Sentences It appears on everything from slinky skirts and fitted dresses to sexy tops and biker jackets, not to mention accessories such as skinny belts, sassy mules and stiletto boots. She took Wolf's arm and inserted herself into a file of carts, getting in front of a brace of mules whose driver cursed her, but whose whip was too short to reach her neck. Even though mules could carry heavier loads, cost less to run and were more surefooted, they were increasingly used in harness to pull wagons, not as pack animals. General Slim listed carrier pigeons, dogs, ponies, mules, horses, bullocks, buffaloes, and elephants as all being used by his Fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign. But I had learnt from a young age that travelling around the state in mules with little ribbons stuck to them and a cotton housedress was a painful and cold trek. Along the edge of the forest, still far away and tiny, their horses, a black gelding and a dappled gray mare, picked their way downslope, followed by a string of mules. The driver whistled to the mules and they slowed to a steady walk. Yet the fire still burned, the horses and mules still drowsed in their corner of the cave, and their three companions slept on, untouched by all that had happened. Many children suffered serious injuries while under the mules, with fingers, hands, and sometimes heads crushed by the heavy moving parts. Janie's story of personal growth may be charted as one that travels from mules to muliebrity. Originally rings were only suitable for coarse counts, they were lower and heavier than mules so needed stronger floors but lower rooms. Ring spinning technology had successfully replaced the spinning mule, with mills having been converted mules to rings. We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. They were bersaglieri. Ring frames were smaller and heavier than mules so the mills were narrower with fewer storeys. They used a belt and pulley drive system, and heavier ring frames rather than mules. Winter grazing his 120 ewes, mostly Welsh mules, helps thje process by producing short tussocky swards. During this period the mules got wider and the width of the bays increased. We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle. Men who could maintain carding machines and particularly woollen spinning mules were capable of working in many engineering plants. Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed. Show More Sentences The narrow, slippery road in the mountain mists was treacherous for mule trains, and in some cases mules were hoisted by ropes. Armies have also used camels as freight animals instead of horses and mules. Shortly after six, our pack train arrived.... We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! It was a perfect caravan. In Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go.... Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. The 67th Fairplex meet, which has quarter horses and mules as well as thoroughbreds, runs 16 days to Sept. The Cabinet were mistaken, as most of the fodder was for the horses, donkeys and mules, which the BEF used to move supplies and heavy equipment. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. Appearing in the shape of horses, mules, or dogs, the Gytrash haunt solitary ways and lead people astray. In modern warfare, pack mules are used to bring supplies to areas where roads are poor and fuel supply is uncertain. Mules had used this mixture since the 1880s, and cotton mules ran faster and hotter than the other mules, and needed more frequent oiling. Typical 1,200 spindle mules of the 1920s would experience 5 to 6 breakages a minute. Drawn by one or two mules or horses, it was used for cab work, the cab drivers being called cisiani. The minder would make minor adjustments to his mules to the extent that each mule worked differently. A pair of mules would be manned by a person called the minder and two boys called the side piecer and the little piecer. Condenser spinning or cotton waste spinning is akin to spinning wool, and the mules are similar. Bolton specialised in fine count cotton, and its mules ran more slowly to put in the extra twist. In 1890, a typical cotton mill would have over 60 mules, each with 1,320 spindles, which would operate four times a minute for 56 hours a week. Over time, rings became suitable for finer counts and because of cheaper labour costs they replaced mules. By then cotton mules had been superseded by the ring frame and the industry was contracting, so it was never established whether these measures were effective. It has been designed to combat practices such as the use of money mules and smurfing, where large transactions are restructured into smaller ones to pass undetected. Show More Sentences They travelled in large groups, with bell tents, blowup beds, tables, cooks and kitchens, carried by trains of mules up the steep, winding, dusty tracks. Horses, mules and donkeys are driven in harness in many different ways. Examples of hybrids include mules, geeps, ligers, and wolphins. The factory was established in 1798 in the Ancoats district of the city, and was one of the first buildings in the world to be designed for steam-powered spinning mules. During Kublai's reign, the Yuan communication system consisted of some 1,400 postal stations, which used 50,000 horses, 8,400 oxen, 6,700 mules, 4,000 carts, and 6,000 boats. Horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, large dogs, cats and bees were rapidly adopted by native peoples for transport, food, and other uses. It had an arched overhead covering of cloth and was drawn by mules. I'll have a week to reflect on those bottomless drops, cliff-hanging goat trails, the stumbling of the mules and soreness from a rock-hard saddle seat. All these mules had been worked by the strength of the operatives. Horses and mules remained important in agriculture until the development of the internal combustion tractor near the end of the Second Industrial Revolution. Amish farmers tend to use a team of about seven horses or mules when spring ploughing and as Amish farmers often help each other plough, teams are sometimes changed at noon. Horses and mules carried them, pigs fed them and dogs fought for them. I sought among the mules one with a mild expression of generosity and gentleness in its eyes, and found it in a white mule with a crupper adorned with arabesques. Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances. Open toe shoes, mules and flip-flops can be dangerous too, as they are easily caught under the pedals because of the constant moving of the feet and little ankle support. The items are packed in a Grab Bag that contains washing and shaving kit, towel, face flannel, shower mules, socks, underwear, t-shirt and shorts. Textile production in England peaked in 1926, and as mills were decommissioned, many of the scrapped mules and looms were bought up and reinstated in India. Examples from Classical Literature From cruces to Panama mules were employed for the remainder of the journey. A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught. The driver of our mules naturally suppressed his invectives in my presence. A few squirrels darted from the earth and disappeared as mysteriously before the jingly mules. Horses and mules are placed in Class II, with a minimum weight of 1,400 kg. An aged Israelite with a long train of mules came from the sus that morning. One of these fellows, as it chanced, was their own guide, who had come in from tending the mules. Behind them came a third, a big quartermaster's wagon, drawn by six mules and loaded with tentage and rations. Buck and Hop were attending to the mules on shore, and I saw no one on the lower deck. The Nancy Hanks got through the lock and the mules picked up the slack of the towrope again at Louise's vigorous suggestion. I did enough mental and 'charming personality' work to sell a trainload of mules to a business man. Livingstones mules were bitten by the tsetse fly on Nyassa and died a miserable death from ulcers. All of them had gardens, a milk cow, a few chickens, a couple of pigs and a team of horses or mules. Here we spread the viands which had been brought in a pannier on the back of one of the mules. The two, with their mules, form a tableau in front of the untenanted dwelling. The canyon was deserted and the water-hole where he drank was unvisited except by his mules. That don't bother me any more than it does a mountain to serve as a background for a nanny goat and a pair of sore-eyed mules! They raised cotton and corn and veg'tables, and mules and horses and hawgs and sheep. The all-firedest finest pair of mules on Granados, and every water bag in the outfit! I hauled it over here with four of the orneriest mules that ever flapped an ear at white men. Show More Sentences He took the whiffletree from the wagon, let a chain drag behind it, and harnessed the mules. There were parties of Chinese, sometimes on foot and sometimes with trains of mules or yaks, the oxlike Tibetan beasts of burden. But yester eve a party of merchants came slowly on their mules from Dusseldorf. Forthwith they yoked their oxen and mules and gathered together before the city. A pom-pom, together with its team of mules and harness, and most of the carts and saddles, were captured by the enemy. The driver walked beside the mules, while the grinning face of pong was always to be seen in the front end of the wagon. As to the law of postliminium, horses, mules, and ships are considered in the same light as slaves. A muleteer simply, sitting sideways on his prad, and leading a half-dozen mules laden with panniers in Indian file behind him. Most of the loading of the waggon consisted of provender for our horses and mules. Pickaninnies, starved dogs, mules, razorback hogs and malaria seemed to thrive along with the willow and pepper trees. The mules had been packed, and the remuda collected in charge of the driver. Besides this, a stable rent-free for our mules, and a loft above it rent-free for ourselves to sleep in was a great accommodation. I was not long in taking leave of Aguascalientes, and heard nothing more of the impressment of my mules. The men put spurs to their mules, alee gave the lash to my horse, and we started. Our wagon train had four hundred big government wagons, each drawn by six mules. We rode there and back in the big government wagons, each wagon being drawn by a team of six mules. Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at. Man and horse and mules were the only life in the naked bottom of this caldron. Chang returned and told An ching this, and said they would go and get their mules. Thus many a time when it chugged out of his barn so proudly, it came limping back behind a span of mules. Show More Sentences It is asserted that the mules of serins, citral finches, and goldfinches, are fruitful. Baldwin de Moels, or Moules, was the sheriff, and his descendants bore mules on their coat armour. The chaos about the trains was straightening out, and the men were corralling the wagons, and unharnessing the mules and horses. Also, he said that he had two fine mules in the courtyard, and Castell went out to look at them. The rest forsook the mules and took to the gorges, where the horses could not follow them. For she was busy with the mules, currying them and putting them before the wagon. It must then be conveyed either on mules or in waggons to Cadiz and Santander. Meanwhile, the fellow who was driving the mules attached to the fieldpiece, turned his head, and saw what was going on. He had mounted her upon one of the mules, and covered her shoulders with his serape. What you say about the coats of mules is new to me, as is the statement about hermaphroditism in hybrid moths. I ordered my servant to spancel the mules, and tether the horse to a shrub by a long rope. He left it to his family as part of his estate, the rest of which consisted of two mules and a hypotenuse of non-arable land. Benedict, mounted on two dromedaries, for not less tall were the two mules they rode on. At this moment Gurth appeared on the opposite side of the moat with the mules. You've got a span of mules that can outpull my yoke of oxen any day. Ye see, gents, them Ar mules is used to workin' with a perfesser. They attempt, also, together with the Chimango, to pick off the scabs from the sore backs of horses and mules. Only donkeys and mules are valiant, and they only till they are pushed up to the wall. In places it was necessary to dismount and lead the mules along, sometimes pushing and dragging them. Helvetic unity was crushed under the slow step of mules loaded with gold. Show More Sentences Sibijaan drove the mules and swung his sjambok without mercy. The unladen mules, now bearing the men on their backs, had disappeared. He also procured a couple of mules to transport his baggage. An occasional Belial excepted, the mules were a pleasant lot. We unhitch, and lead the mules to the gap, where she joins us. Thousands of horses and mules were employed by the stampeders. The packs were scarcely off the backs of the mules, when the runners, mounted on the fleetest horses, were full tilt after the buffalo. The bronco stock was bad enough but the green mules were the worst. That caravanserai can accommodate 1000 men in rooms, and 1500 mules. Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Along the roads around the chateau came a few grave personages mounted on mules or country nags. Great walls of earth and stone sheltered the horses and mules. The mules may transport the litter, and we have led horses for the old man and his daughter. The mules stopped, and through her light veil I saw that she was handsome. The princess then yoked up the mules and they started for home. The only article of propulsion we could hire were saddle mules. The Paphlagonians were commanded by stout-hearted Pylaemanes from Enetae, where the mules run wild in herds. There we'll hire bearers to take our stuff on until we can get mules. He chose three companions for his journey, put up a small stock of necessaries in the most portable form, and selected five horses and mules for themselves and their baggage. Bring in fodder and litter so as to have enough for your oxen and mules. Show More Sentences Their quarter horse dam, Mesmerizer, and Spanish jack donkey sire, Coalee McGee, were paired to produce several outstanding racing mules, including world champion Taz. The armament of the huge German airships, big as the biggest mammoth liners afloat, was one machine gun that could easily have been packed up on a couple of mules. The mules, however, confounded by the hurly-burly and disliking their new riders kicked up their heels and dismounted half of them, in spite of their horsemanship. Find more words! 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