sumpter
Example Sentences
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She had also two sumpter mules richly caparisoned, and carrying a fine bed and all the necessary implements for cooking.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The brothers answered 'Yes,' and that in very truth it was for him that they asked for the sumpter beast.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
We started, my uncouth guide sitting tailor-fashion on the sumpter mule, upon the baggage.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Simon and Marian Pendexter had been installed in office, with orders to write in a month: three sumpter mules were laden with the family luggage: and the last farewells were taken.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
They had three saddle-horses and four sumpter mules.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
