This sheep produces a brilliant big Mule lamb, a cross with a Blue-faced Leicester. |
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The borates on the claims in Mule Canyon originated through sedimentation on an ancient lake bed. |
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Set in a rural town in the midlands, Pure Mule won five Irish Film and Television Award gongs in November including Best TV Director. |
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String puppets Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy and Pinky and Perky and glove puppet Sooty were among early TV's biggest stars. |
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Sure there were a few drunks and wanton women scattered around the common room of the Gray Mule Inn, but it seemed like a friendly place. |
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The wine offerings are still solid, but craft spirits are center stage, with Nielsen reconstructing vintage cocktails such as the Moscow Mule. |
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Reserve placing in the native breeds went to Mule Wether lamb entries from Andrew Fisher of Pateley Bridge, a fieldsman for Craven Cattle Marts. |
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The Spinning Mule marked a turning point for the textile industry as it massively increased the quantity and quality of yarn spun. |
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In the 1950s children wanted Subbuteo, Sooty, Muffin the Mule and model cars. |
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Mule and ring spinning started in place of the throstle frames. |
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Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes. |
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He formed Ginny Mule Pictures with friends, the actor and director Ray McKinnon and the late actress Lisa Blount. |
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The eastside was an area fit for Mule because of his harsh no-nonsense approach to doing business. |
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Mule deer bucks were in abundance, lollygagging in the shade of tall cottonwoods, and antelope seemed everywhere. |
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In which classic science fiction trilogy do psychohistorian Hari Seldon and psychically-gifted conqueror the Mule appear? |
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In which classic science fiction trilogy do psychohistorian Hari Seldon and 23 trilogy do psychically-gifted conqueror the Mule appear? |
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A commercially successful breed, the North of England Mule, has been produced from the Swaledale ewes, by mating with Bluefaced Leicesters. |
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The Mule ewe lambs bred from North of England type Blackfaces was the largest class on the field with more than 40 entries of outstanding lambs. |
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Mule deer inhabit seemingly all terrain across the West, from the desert floor to the highest peaks, so it's likely that most any hunt you go on you could see muleys. |
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In a business where schmoozing skills are key, Mule and Scott are both happy to report that being out professionally has been, if anything, a plus. |
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There is also an interesting scene in which a girl is traded for a mule, and no one feels particularly slighted! |
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Action must be taken quickly to get smaller off-road vehicles or mule trains ready to distribute food before the snows fall. |
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A mule was better than a horse for work in the sun, but milkers went sour in hot weather. |
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A mule results from a cross between a female horse, or mare, and a male donkey, or jack. |
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In addition, mule deer and bobcat are in abundance on the course, and a mountain lion makes infrequent visits every year or so. |
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Now, scientists at the University of Idaho have successfully cloned a mule. |
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Our private transportation will take us to the town of Cachora where our mule wanglers, mules and horses are waiting. |
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I've taken an even dozen whitetail and mule deer bucks at ranges from 20 meters to a full 80, all of which were one-shot kills. |
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Yeager put his mule in the stable for the night and led Sanders to the blazing fire in the way station's main room. |
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Point out that whitetail deer and elk populations are exploding and we respond that mule deer hunting isn't like it was. |
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The entire community mobilises to pack items for transport by mule or horse across the border. |
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No-one asked her any questions, no-one searched her. She could have been a heroin mule or a gun smuggler for all anyone knew. |
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The problem is that the car is aerodynamically unstable, and under heavy braking, the back end kicks out like a mule. |
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The free event is open to hunters bagging white-tailed deer, mule deer, or antelope in Texas during the past year. |
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A judge has ruled against a film company that sought damages from an animal wrangler after her mule failed to cooperate while filming. |
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Here the goods are either loaded on the backs of yaks or on mule caravans to send into Tibet or to Nepal and Bhutan to be forwarded to Tibet. |
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The original carousel opened in 1871 and was powered by a blind mule and a horse which walked a treadmill in an underground pit. |
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After 1825, when the self-acting mule spinner automated the process, spinning 100 pounds of cotton took 135 hours. |
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It moved again, and with a start of surprise I realized it was the antlers of a nice mule deer, bedded in the brush. |
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The addle-headed mule wandered over to a stream to drink and I sailed down its neck. |
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It has taken everything from Colorado mule deer to zebra, impala, gemsbok and waterbuck in Africa. |
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You can still trip along mule paths, too, the very ones tramped by the ancient Minoans, into gorges bursting with wild flowers. |
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Adam thought about hitting Joe with it since the old gun weighed a short ton and had the kick of a mule when it went off. |
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There should be whitetail and mule deer in abundance, and this is the most likely place to spot a golden eagle. |
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He spent a week crossing the Bernese Alps, traveling largely on foot, mule, and horseback. |
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He took the left one and, with a pile driver of a mule kick, almost ripped it off its hinges. |
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Of the 38 deer species worldwide, the whitetail in the East and mule deer in the West are the two that cause the most problems for American gardeners. |
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He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule. |
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He's very monosyllabic, and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule. |
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Wildlife is plentiful, including jackrabbits, mule deer, elk, pheasant, sage grouse, barn owls, bald and golden eagles, and dozens of species of songbirds. |
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At least you don't spend your whole day staring at the back end of a mule. |
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He worries that the mule track would leave a scar on the hillside. |
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Stop along this byway to hike across broad plateaus and to admire Rocky Mountain goats, moose, black bears, grizzly bears, marmots, and mule deer. |
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Perhaps a little more exciting to catch sight of is the bighorn sheep, mule deer, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote or one of the amazing birds of prey. |
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Prion diseases occur in sheep, goats, mink, mule deer, elk, cats and cows. |
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At the edge of her mind, she heard a mule braying loudly, in fear. |
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Try a ballerina flat, or an open mule with a smartly shaped heel. |
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In some places we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk. |
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Their stocky Indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted their hindquarters with a length of rope which he swung like a lariat. |
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This is a quandary that never traps veteran adventuress Dervla Murphy, in a new edition of her epic 1983 trek through the Peruvian Andes with her small daughter and a mule. |
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Q We are going to hunt javelinas, Coues deer, and mule deer in January in southern Arizona. |
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Listen here, Swing, old-timer, I got a long and gashly tale of wickedness to pour into those lily-white mule ears of yores. |
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It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own. |
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Lewis's invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright in his water frame and Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule. |
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Children employed as mule scavengers by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton, working 14 hours a day, six days a week. |
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He was still in the intermediate stage between horse and donkey, a natural mule still struggling up aspiringly toward perfect horsehood. |
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In 1573, he joined Guillaume Le Testu, a French buccaneer, in an attack on a richly laden mule train. |
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Hamoudi, my guide, sings his way uphill. He leads a pack mule by a chain, bowed against an icy wind. His faded kaffiyeh snaps like a flag. |
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I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you. |
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A number of prototypes of both engines exist in full working order in a number of mule cars. |
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Trips across the Isthmus of Panama or Nicaragua typically took about one week by native canoe and mule back. |
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Elk and mule deer both migrate between the alpine meadows and lower coniferous forests and tend to be most common in this region. |
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Like the mule, camas are sterile, despite both parents having the same number of chromosomes. |
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In the colonial era and up until railroads were built in key areas, mule trains were the main mode of transporting goods. |
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The narrow, slippery road in the mountain mists was treacherous for mule trains, and in some cases mules were hoisted by ropes. |
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But confraternities also later pursued cattle ranching, as well as mule and horse breeding, depending on the local situation. |
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Ring spinning technology had successfully replaced the spinning mule, with mills having been converted mules to rings. |
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The cotton staples are carded into lap and straightened and drawn into roving which is spun using either a mule or ring frame. |
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The well paid mule spinners were the 'barefoot aristocrats' of labour and became organised in the 19th century. |
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A survey in 1812 showed there were between 4 and 5 million mule spindles in use. |
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The spinning mule spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process. |
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Development over the next century and a half led to an automatic mule and to finer and stronger yarn. |
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When Arkwright's patents expired, the mule was developed by several manufacturers. |
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The mule produced strong, thin yarn, suitable for any kind of textile, warp or weft. |
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Henry Stones, a mechanic from Horwich, constructed a mule using toothed gearing and, importantly, metal rollers. |
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Marsden in 1885 described the processes of setting up and operating a mule. |
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They worked barefoot in humid temperatures, the minder and the little piecer worked the minder half of the mule. |
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The minder would make minor adjustments to his mules to the extent that each mule worked differently. |
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Creeling involved replacing the rovings bobbins in a section of the mule without stopping the mule. |
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To creel, the creeler stood behind the mule, he placed new bobbins on the shelf above the creel. |
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The minder would stop the mule on the outward run, and raise his hands above his head. |
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Home spinning was the occupation of women and girls, but the strength needed to operate a mule caused it to be the activity of men. |
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Worsted tended to adopt Arkwright water frames which could be operated by young girls, and woollen adopted the mule. |
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About 1900 there was a high incidence of scrotal cancer detected in former mule spinners. |
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It was limited to cotton mule spinners and did not affect woollen or condenser mule spinners. |
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A packhorse or pack horse refers to a horse, mule, donkey, or pony used to carry goods on its back, usually in sidebags or panniers. |
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The packhorse, mule or donkey was a critical tool in the development of the Americas. |
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As the mule moved forwards the children were sent under the machine, sweeping and gathering the cotton. |
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John was a wheelwright who had spent time studying the latest English developments and might well have gained experience of the spinning mule. |
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Offered a reward at the top, Dorsaz asked for the mule on which Napoleon was riding. |
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He received the mule and a short note for the chief supply officer of the army. |
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They learned the heart-breaking cussedness of camp-kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither-wrung mule. |
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It has taken whitetail deer, mule deer, aoudad, waterbuck, impala, black buck, zebra, gemsbok, and on and on all with 1-shot kills. |
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Place the shovel, the saddle, the holster, the cowboy hat, the frying pan, the bedroll and the guitar on the mule. |
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Nearby sage and bitterbrush offer migrating mule deer herds critical wintertime sanctuary. |
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A burrier is the local term given to a young person who acts as a drugs mule. |
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A stray mule skinner leading his pony on foot joined them as they started at a brisk walk toward the wagon boxes. |
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Wildlife abounds with elk, mule deer, big horn sheep, antelope, eagles, pheasant, chukars, coyotes, mountain lion, and even a bear now and again. |
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Now they can add stubborn as a mule to her traits as she resists the arguments of Bob and her adopted daughter Gennie to have the operation. |
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She's as stubborn as a mule when we try to argue with her and she spouts some complete rubbish. |
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Steadily, our gunman pushed forward, his mule high-stepping through brush. |
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Just bald eagles, golden eagles, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk, quail, prairie falcons, coyotes, chukars, gopher snakes, ravens and great horned owls, to name a few. |
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It might surprise you to learn that Enzo spent the First World War as a mule skinner and that during the mid-1980's Enzo ran a Honda Legend, which he rather liked. |
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Big mule deer and trophy-sized Coues deer are his specialty, but he also has bagged desert black bears, bull elk, javelinas, Merriam turkeys, and mountain lions. |
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Istarted the 2011 hunting season on New Year's Day in Arizona bowhunting javelina and mule deer with my good friend, Trent Swanson with Swarovski Optik. |
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Fourteen states and two Canadian provinces have reported chronic wasting disease, which strikes mule deer, white-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain elk, and occasionally moose. |
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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. |
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Peter Pol, doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as Monstrelet reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of Paris, ever sitting sideling, as women use. |
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In some parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire the gytrash was known as the 'Shagfoal' and took the form of a spectral mule or donkey with eyes that glowed like burning coals. |
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From here, Hannibal ordered his men to set about fixing the mule path. |
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On the way up Napoleon had discussed affairs of the heart with his young guide and mule driver, Pierre Nicholas Dorsaz, who did not know his identity. |
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They were employed to work under the machinery to clean up the dust and oil and to gather the cotton that had been thrown off the mule by its intense vibrations. |
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Scavengers were employed in 18th and 19th century in cotton mills, predominantly in the UK and the United States, to clean and recoup the area underneath a spinning mule. |
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When they had finished they would run to agreed positions of safety where the minder could see both of them, and the minder would unclip the stang and start the mule. |
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The two piecers would thus need to repair the thread within 15 to 20 seconds while the mule was in motion but once they had the thread it took under three seconds. |
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After the first few draws the minder would stop the mule at the start of an inward run and take it in slowly depressing and releasing the faller wire several times. |
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As the mule spindle travels on its carriage, the roving which it spins is fed to it through rollers geared to revolve at different speeds to draw out the yarn. |
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The spinning mule has a fixed frame with a creel of cylindrical bobbins to hold the roving, connected through the headstock to a parallel carriage with the spindles. |
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Combining ideas from these two system inspired the spinning mule. |
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At its peak there were 50,000,000 mule spindles in Lancashire alone. |
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The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. |
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Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide. |
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Broadstone Mills Stockport, was built as a double mill with 265,000 mule spindles, but by 1959 it was running 37,500 mule spindles and 70,000 ring spindles. |
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The draw while spinning had been assisted by power, but the push of the wind had been done manually by the spinner, the mule could be operated by semiskilled labor. |
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As legend holds, in 1323, Elizabeth, mounted on a mule, positioned herself between the opposing armies on the field of the Battle of Alvalade in order to prevent the combat. |
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Columbus was leaving town by mule in despair when Ferdinand intervened. |
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Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million. |
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Samuel Crompton was later to combine the two to form the spinning mule. |
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When you consider she's as stubborn as a mule, it's anyone's guess whether the Dales diva will mellow and take him back or sever all ties with her desperate spouse. |
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