sumpter
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All our gallant soldiers had made up their lances, fusils, sabres, bows and arrows, into bundles, which were packed upon their sumpter animals.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
Independently of their convoy, they had a sumpter canoe in company, belonging to the Eboe people, from which the others were supplied with dressed provisions.
From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish
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
But the hermit soberly journeyed toward Nottingham, the two men-at-arms, with the sumpter mule, riding in front.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
As one of the sumpter cattle that carried his tent had fallen into a river, Themistokles's servants hung up the rich hangings, which were dripping with wet, in order to dry them.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
