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Sentence Examples There should be whitetail and mule deer in abundance, and this is the most likely place to spot a golden eagle. After 1825, when the self-acting mule spinner automated the process, spinning 100 pounds of cotton took 135 hours. A mule was better than a horse for work in the sun, but milkers went sour in hot weather. A judge has ruled against a film company that sought damages from an animal wrangler after her mule failed to cooperate while filming. Our private transportation will take us to the town of Cachora where our mule wanglers, mules and horses are waiting. In addition, mule deer and bobcat are in abundance on the course, and a mountain lion makes infrequent visits every year or so. A mule results from a cross between a female horse, or mare, and a male donkey, or jack. 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. It has taken everything from Colorado mule deer to zebra, impala, gemsbok and waterbuck in Africa. Yeager put his mule in the stable for the night and led Sanders to the blazing fire in the way station's main room. Action must be taken quickly to get smaller off-road vehicles or mule trains ready to distribute food before the snows fall. The entire community mobilises to pack items for transport by mule or horse across the border. The problem is that the car is aerodynamically unstable, and under heavy braking, the back end kicks out like a mule. 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. Point out that whitetail deer and elk populations are exploding and we respond that mule deer hunting isn't like it was. There is also an interesting scene in which a girl is traded for a mule, and no one feels particularly slighted! He spent a week crossing the Bernese Alps, traveling largely on foot, mule, and horseback. You can still trip along mule paths, too, the very ones tramped by the ancient Minoans, into gorges bursting with wild flowers. 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. The free event is open to hunters bagging white-tailed deer, mule deer, or antelope in Texas during the past year. Show More Sentences The original carousel opened in 1871 and was powered by a blind mule and a horse which walked a treadmill in an underground pit. The addle-headed mule wandered over to a stream to drink and I sailed down its neck. It moved again, and with a start of surprise I realized it was the antlers of a nice mule deer, bedded in the brush. 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. 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. Stop along this byway to hike across broad plateaus and to admire Rocky Mountain goats, moose, black bears, grizzly bears, marmots, and mule deer. At least you don't spend your whole day staring at the back end of a mule. Wildlife is plentiful, including jackrabbits, mule deer, elk, pheasant, sage grouse, barn owls, bald and golden eagles, and dozens of species of songbirds. 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. Prion diseases occur in sheep, goats, mink, mule deer, elk, cats and cows. He's very monosyllabic, and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule. He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule. Try a ballerina flat, or an open mule with a smartly shaped heel. He took the left one and, with a pile driver of a mule kick, almost ripped it off its hinges. 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. He worries that the mule track would leave a scar on the hillside. In some places we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk. 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. Offered a reward at the top, Dorsaz asked for the mule on which Napoleon was riding. He received the mule and a short note for the chief supply officer of the army. Show More Sentences They learned the heart-breaking cussedness of camp-kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither-wrung mule. Q We are going to hunt javelinas, Coues deer, and mule deer in January in southern Arizona. It has taken whitetail deer, mule deer, aoudad, waterbuck, impala, black buck, zebra, gemsbok, and on and on all with 1-shot kills. Steadily, our gunman pushed forward, his mule high-stepping through brush. Listen here, Swing, old-timer, I got a long and gashly tale of wickedness to pour into those lily-white mule ears of yores. 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. Lewis's invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright in his water frame and Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule. 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. He was still in the intermediate stage between horse and donkey, a natural mule still struggling up aspiringly toward perfect horsehood. In 1573, he joined Guillaume Le Testu, a French buccaneer, in an attack on a richly laden mule train. 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. I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you. A number of prototypes of both engines exist in full working order in a number of mule cars. Trips across the Isthmus of Panama or Nicaragua typically took about one week by native canoe and mule back. Elk and mule deer both migrate between the alpine meadows and lower coniferous forests and tend to be most common in this region. Like the mule, camas are sterile, despite both parents having the same number of chromosomes. In the colonial era and up until railroads were built in key areas, mule trains were the main mode of transporting goods. The narrow, slippery road in the mountain mists was treacherous for mule trains, and in some cases mules were hoisted by ropes. But confraternities also later pursued cattle ranching, as well as mule and horse breeding, depending on the local situation. It was limited to cotton mule spinners and did not affect woollen or condenser mule spinners. Show More Sentences The cotton staples are carded into lap and straightened and drawn into roving which is spun using either a mule or ring frame. The well paid mule spinners were the 'barefoot aristocrats' of labour and became organised in the 19th century. A survey in 1812 showed there were between 4 and 5 million mule spindles in use. The spinning mule spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process. Development over the next century and a half led to an automatic mule and to finer and stronger yarn. When Arkwright's patents expired, the mule was developed by several manufacturers. The mule produced strong, thin yarn, suitable for any kind of textile, warp or weft. Henry Stones, a mechanic from Horwich, constructed a mule using toothed gearing and, importantly, metal rollers. Marsden in 1885 described the processes of setting up and operating a mule. They worked barefoot in humid temperatures, the minder and the little piecer worked the minder half of the mule. The minder would make minor adjustments to his mules to the extent that each mule worked differently. Creeling involved replacing the rovings bobbins in a section of the mule without stopping the mule. To creel, the creeler stood behind the mule, he placed new bobbins on the shelf above the creel. The minder would stop the mule on the outward run, and raise his hands above his head. 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. Worsted tended to adopt Arkwright water frames which could be operated by young girls, and woollen adopted the mule. About 1900 there was a high incidence of scrotal cancer detected in former mule spinners. 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. The packhorse, mule or donkey was a critical tool in the development of the Americas. As the mule moved forwards the children were sent under the machine, sweeping and gathering the cotton. Show More Sentences John was a wheelwright who had spent time studying the latest English developments and might well have gained experience of the spinning mule. Place the shovel, the saddle, the holster, the cowboy hat, the frying pan, the bedroll and the guitar on the mule. Nearby sage and bitterbrush offer migrating mule deer herds critical wintertime sanctuary. A burrier is the local term given to a young person who acts as a drugs mule. A stray mule skinner leading his pony on foot joined them as they started at a brisk walk toward the wagon boxes. Wildlife abounds with elk, mule deer, big horn sheep, antelope, eagles, pheasant, chukars, coyotes, mountain lion, and even a bear now and again. 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. She's as stubborn as a mule when we try to argue with her and she spouts some complete rubbish. Ring spinning technology had successfully replaced the spinning mule, with mills having been converted mules to rings. From here, Hannibal ordered his men to set about fixing the mule path. 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. 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. 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. 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. Columbus was leaving town by mule in despair when Ferdinand intervened. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Show More Sentences 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. Samuel Crompton was later to combine the two to form the spinning mule. 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. 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. 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. Combining ideas from these two system inspired the spinning mule. At its peak there were 50,000,000 mule spindles in Lancashire alone. The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide. 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. 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. Fourteen states and two Canadian provinces have reported chronic wasting disease, which strikes mule deer, white-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain elk, and occasionally moose. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Examples from Classical Literature The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. A large number of sick were sent into Balaklava on the 23rd on French mule litters and a few of our bt horses. He had borrowed these guns from Minky, the same as he had borrowed the mule and buckboard. He babbled of the long journey with the mule team into the mouth of Dry Bone Caon, and the caching of the treasure. Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship. Hosen, shirts, cyclas, and under-jupons are in the brown basket on the left side of the mule. In the background stands the dogcatcher's cart, attached to the famous kicking mule. At the head of the column of doolies and stretchers were the bodies of the killed, each tied with cords upon a mule. The prodigy connected with this siege of Babylon was the foaling of a mule. It was no fox-trot, nor yet so fast as the Derby record, but most excellent for a mule. Some jingal bullets did on occasion fall fairly near the bridge, and one mule was actually hit in the act of crossing. They roped the mare mule, dragged her to the forge, threw her, and shoed her. The difference between the mule and the hinny would seem to be explicable on this supposition. A very curious circumstance pertains to the voice of the mule and the hinny. I would swap him to that horse trader for his good mule as soon as I watered him. The mule may not be so liable to spavin as the horse, but he has ringbone just the same. French twinners have a stationary creel, and the spindles move in and out with the carriage, as in the spinning mule. In this way, they were, strictly speaking, rivals of the throstle doubling frame more than the spinning mule. When the mule inserted his hoof the water spurted out violently, as though from a squirt gun. As much to me as if a stray, migratory mule had rambled into the wood and found me, and I him. Show More Sentences Before them rode a boy on a jennet, and by him a clerk, as he seemed, upon a mule. Duncan had been wont to say of him that Kellogg could talk the hind-leg off of a mule. These she laded among her own goods upon the mule that with her horse had been fetched by Zinti and hastily fed with corn. Rather on the north-west side, the hill is surmountable by a zig-zag path, up which a loaded mule can climb with some difficulty. Bob took his first lesson in Western riding behind Lejeune and his stolid mule. She wished to go away with her lightning conductor, and leave me at the mercy of a mule. To lin's persistent inquiries, Alfred admitted that the mule had kicked him. His experiments so far support the view of Continental mule breeders, that telegony, if it takes place, occurs very seldom. In the midst of that party sits our captain, on the back of a long-legged mule. That he had observed, from his station in the rear, that she sat her mule as if she were exhausted. He is called the mule deer because he has very long ears, like a mule's ears. Among our acquisitions to-day were a mule deer, a magpie, a common deer, and a buffalo. Once more they replenished their larder with mountain sheep and mule deer, and packed upon the horses all they could carry. Arrange it as you like, but I will not take presents from the manager of the mule deer. I have heard your uncle call them mule deer, and he says that that name comes from their having such big ears. This is a famous game region, and you will be likely to meet small bands of antelope, mule deer, and wild sheep. The miner had been a mule skinner in his time, just as he had tried his hand at a dozen other occupations. He swore with the sincerity of a hen with fresh-hatched chicks and the vocabulary of a mule skinner. A brightly painted Indian with eagle feathered bonnet and a string of grizzly claws around his neck, won a mule skinner's money. Early next morning our train was on the road, and the mule train, at the generals suggestion, fell in and kept company. Show More Sentences A picked bull train, he allowed, could beat a mule train all hollow on a long haul. A mule train was to start a week after Simpson's lightning bulls began their westward course. It was cursed with some officers in 61-62 whose qualifications only fitted them for service with a mule train. Just before the conflict the Greeks met a mule train laden with selinon, or wild celery, the plant used at funerals. He was to find out on what night, and at what hour, the mule train set out with its precious burden for Nombre de Dios. It is certainly provoking that we lost the mule train of gold, particularly as we were betrayed by one of our own men. The stout Abbot and his jolly monks, us setting off afoot with a mule train, the prayer delivered over us as we start. It is easy to-day, but Smith had no map, no trail, no transportation save that of the horse and mule train. A light tramway for mule cars, or a narrow gauge steam railway, will probably be the most economical way of removing the ore. The horse proved to be an obstreperous, balky thing, and as contrary as a mule. Nothing can beat the Sircar mule when he is in good condition, unless it is the balti and Ladaki coolie. General Bankhead thereupon sent for Captain Laufer and ordered him to turn the horse and mule over to me. Finally he arrived, bringing the mule and feeling very much like beefing it when he got home. The yarn from the ring frame, or mule, is wound in a large cop, or on a bobbin. My own memory is as stubborn as a mule and as grippy as a bulldog. Hastily mounting a mule he made a detour of the straw stack and reported. From the window of my room I saw the doctor get astride his mule. Have Pommers ready at mid-day with my sycamore lance, and place my harness on the sumpter mule. It leaked, and it steered like a balky mule, but what of that? The spinning mule is now in general use in the cotton manufacture. Show More Sentences Every team, every horse and mule and handcart in the town were employed. Her mule staggered, sidling close to the rock, and then went on. We laugh mirthlessly but the exchange gives me renewed hope that I am not a mule. The mule run away with his plow and throwed him a summerset. I guess she don't need a mule team to drag her away, but women are better at coaching than they are at running bases. He tethered the mule to a hitching post and led Lily into the barber shop. The hombre who had been driving the mule had gone for ropes. The wind blew his new hat off and a mule kicked the top out of the crown. It was only Carlotta on her barbarically betrapped and besaddled mule. The gun-bullocks lay down together and began chewing the cud, but the young mule huddled close to Billy. They went to the camp we had left, but neither he nor the mule was there. Halt the Division did statedly, but there was no rest for the poor mule. She had forced us to accept a little souvenir, a magnificent Spanish GENET and an Andalusian mule, which were beautiful to look upon. Management of chaparral habitat for mule deer and mountain sheep in southern California. We were jolly glad you got canted out, though you are a bit of a mule. Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears. Six to seven-foot gator gars weighing 150 to 250 pounds are not uncommon in mule waters. I can well believe two or three of them, attacking a steer or mule at once, could soon weaken it so the animal would die. I saw her nod to the people of the house, and rein up her mule, and put her hand up to shield her eyes from the sun. A mule was luckily found, and the subadar was sent to the rear. Show More Sentences Marija had learned to scatter her conversation with as many oaths as a longshoreman or a mule driver. Every day Schiefflin set forth on his mule from the adobe house. The mule ducks are sterile intergeneric hybrids which are produced by crossing Pekin or Kaiya female ducks with Muscovy drakes. An it please your grace, Shall I use my coach, or footcloth mule? The forecaster checked his mule and let the boys come up to him. The mule, one foreleg trailing, scrambled along, squealing and snorting. Then Robin checked his mule quickly and leaped from off its back. A white mule with red trappings, led by a varlet, carried Sir Nigel's own napery and table comforts. If a horse or mule refused, he was likely to be gored to death. The water that supplies the ducts is drawn from wells by a mule who turns a wheel with buckets on it. Michael saw, without fully appreciating, the use of the spiked saddle on the bucking mule. The trapper kicked and cudgelled, but to every blow and kick the mule snorted and kicked up, but still refused to budge an inch. In the animal kingdom the mule is a common example of this cross-breeding. Just then I see a man coming down on a mule, and before I thought I jumped into the bush. The elephants of Aethiopia are of so stupendous a size, that when I was mounted on a large mule I could not reach with my hand within two spans of the top of their backs. I wonder who first picked out a mule as the type of obstinacy? That would have been quite another matter, for when it comes down to a question of value there is a palpable difference between a Latinist and a mule. Not even the mule and ox-cart drivers, whom they would hire to take them into the wilds of the interior would be told of the real object of the search. There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule. The weather was blisteringly hot, and the man or woman who had to sit on a creeping mule, or in a crawling wagon, and broil in the beating sun, was an object to be pitied. Show More Sentences He was dressed in the garb of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted a la gineta upon a mule. Aurelia was set against her goin' away while Rebecca was at school, but she's obstinate as a mule, Hannah is, and she just took her own way in spite of her mother. 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What is the opposite of mule? Words that rhyme with mule What is the past tense of mule? What is the plural of mule? What is the adjective for mule? What is the noun for mule? Translations for mule Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Muldoon mulct mulching mulches mulcher mulched Mule mules mulesing muleskinner muleta muleteer 4-letter Words Starting With m mu mul