sumpter
Example Sentences
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Then I led over the horses, beginning with the four sumpter beasts.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
One of them held up an authoritative hand to the sumpter train which followed.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
There are ten lances and two court ladies and a dozen or so of sumpter horses—a brave show.
From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats
And the teams and sumpter animals were available as well in so far as he had need of them.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
But no; after another quarter of an hour's haggling they yielded the last point, and, laden like a sumpter mule, Bill took his triumphant departure.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
