white mule

Example Sentences

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He suggested the antithesis as a mascot - a white mule.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2012

Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac.

From Time Magazine Archive

The white mule seemed to like Catelyn; there was no kicking, thank the gods.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

He took the pickup across the dip slowly, almost tenderly, as if the old truck were the blind white mule, too old to be treated roughly any more.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The horse is not easily found as an English charge, but Moyle’s white mule seems an old coat; horses’ heads are in Horsley’s shield, and ass heads make crests for more than one noble house.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various