How To Use Donkey In A Sentence
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He also looked on his donkey that brayed at his approach.
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Then they recruited him (not their first choice, incidentally) to do the donkey work.
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He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
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A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
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A donkey can avoid bad debts in a climate of strong economic growth, and negative real interest rates.
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The donkeys and horses were gone, and a cluster of damaged buggies stood by the street corner, like unwashed dishes in a sink.
Times, Sunday Times
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It took me a few seconds to realise that it was a donkey braying.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is what the guy around you does: he trains like a donkey, lazes around, and then gives away a penalty.
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Swimming in lane four is the weapon of mass destruction that donkey-licked the opposition in the 2011 World Championships.
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The country began to show a few donkeys and large flocks of sheep and goats; the muttons have a fine "tog," and sell for three dollars and a half.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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On another a man in airmans costume is fighting barehanded against a rat somewhat larger than a donkey.
Boys' Weeklies
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A collar harness does not provide for the vertical force, so if a collar is used, the saddle has to be provided separately - but then it can have the advantage of being made more stable with a girth or bellyband under the donkey's belly.
3.1 Cattle harness
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Typical we do the donkey-work and he takes the credit!
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What's more, researchers found evidence to suggest that a subspecies called the Nubian wild ass, presumed vanished late in the 20th century, is not only a direct ancestor of the donkey - it may still exist.
University of Florida News
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Domesticated donkeys can be bred at any time of year, wild asses generally breed in the wet season.
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Certainly by 16 May 2000 Bambi had been transferred to a local donkey sanctuary.
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Miniature donkeys are very popular as companion animals and for show.
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I stood there alone and watched as four men entered dressed in donkey jackets and flat caps.
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Instead of that, just a meek and lowly man riding upon the foal of a donkey.
Christianity Today
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But she refused to do the donkey work, staying calm while munching on a carrot.
The Sun
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Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas.
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Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Highly intelligent - their fans would argue that they're smarter than horses - donkeys and mules are quick learners.
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Here are old buses with wooden bench seats, and farmers riding donkeys.
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The Donkey Kong game was unlicensed by Nintendo and illicit.
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Accustomed to riding a spirited Nicaean stallion, he was now trying to adjust to a small grey donkey.
The Falcons of Montabard
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The characteristic lesion is similar in both horses and donkeys and is somewhat different from bovine parasitic bronchitis.
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Shops began to open and street vendors hawked vegetables loaded onto donkey carts.
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The Royal Artillery (the drop-shorts to us infanteers) has been using a ground-to-air missile called Javelin for donkeys years.
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Talk Of The Town: If you're at a loose end in Hargeisa after dipping into the cacophonous effervescence of markets crowded with donkey carts amid the amplified calls of the muezzin, you could do worse than go to the Imperial Hotel, just beyond the walled presidential palace.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
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Riding a mule or donkey was an ancient symbol of royal office.
Christianity Today
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We arranged for 33 donkeys and miniature donkeys to receive veterinary care, and we found new homes for camels, emus, bison and several large South American rodents called cavies.
Wayne Pacelle: Menagerie of Animals Saved from Suffering
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Sammy played a donkey in Turton and Edgworth CE Primary School's 1992 nativity.
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Horses are thought to acquire infection mainly from pastures contaminated by donkeys during the summer months.
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Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-SackJacob and Wilhelm Grimm There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat.
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Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing.
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Horses, zebras and donkeys are probably descended from an equine (horse-like) kind, since they can interbreed, although the offspring are sterile.
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Watch video of donkey launching vicious attack.
The Sun
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Soon after this I sketched a new scene for the "Donkey's Skin;" it was one representing the liassic period.
The Story of a Child
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There are various things to avoid, washer-men's donkeys and pariah dogs, unyoked ticca-gharries, heaps of rubbish, perhaps a leprous beggar.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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Need I remind you gentlemen, that an ass is a donkey.
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Ma Rou and the donkey meat cannot with the food, otherwise can typhus and so on.
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As a griffin/centaur, the hippogriff, too, suggests Christ's divine conquest of the passions, as evidenced by his donkey ride into Jerusalem.
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The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
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Klessa's voice sounded like a donkey's bray next to the voice of the elf, and that as well as the words she said snapped Rilleta out of her dreamy mood.
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I had a common donkey pack-saddle-a barde, as they call it - fitted upon Modestine; and once more loaded her with my effects.
Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
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The last thing I should be doing in my condition is heading cross-country on the back of a donkey.
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The donkey bucked when it saw the snake.
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Also, we met many English sportsmen tramping and camping among the mountains in search of the "moufflon," a kind of mountain wild sheep, which, at a short distance, looks very like a donkey with big ram's horns on its head.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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I was basically doing the donkey work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of them, hundreds of other horses, donkeys, and mules will be saved and will know love.
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All domestic asses, or donkeys, are descendants of wild asses from Africa and Asia.
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You half expect Jesus, Mary and the obligatory donkey to walk around a corner, and then the bell to ring for hometime.
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They head out in the boat and Sancho starts crying after he hears his donkey braying plaintively.
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It was a star-studded field, and she was resuming after so long off the scene, but she just donkey-licked them.
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But now it is claimed donkey and horse DNA were accidentally mixed up in the lab.
The Sun
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No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
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An occasional tonga clattered by, the driver and his passenger perched atop the two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by a donkey daring enough to brave the traffic.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
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A tiger saw the big monster, considering it as a god peer at the donkey.
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Grimy, gap-toothed men on donkey carts scavenge the rusting military trucks.
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We were treated to the eternal sausage and something they called beefsteak; it might as well have been called "_suprême de donkey_," it was so tough.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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One of the joys of the Atlas is the availability of mules to do the donkey work of load carrying.
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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If two call you a donkey, check for hoof prints.
Christianity Today
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Many donkeys pattered by under their loads of encinal fagots, the ragged, expressionless drivers plodding silently at their heels.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
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I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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I'll give charge of dis here pick'd bladebone of a dead donkey that walks about in
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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As well as farm livestock, there will be showing classes for horses, goats and donkeys.
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That man's got the brain of a donkey!
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As master and squire continue on, both the horse and donkey whinny and bray - which they both take as good omens.
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Mules, animals that result from breeding a male donkey with a female horse, are usually sterile.
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A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
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Berry lemon mousse parfait proves the donkey right.
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The donkey was so overloaded, it could hardly climb the hill.
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A hinny is the offspring of a stallion and a she - donkey.
Chapter 5
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˜Every man or (a) donkey runs™, that is to say, whether only the term ˜man™ or the whole subject is distributed.
John Buridan
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This doctrine is illustrated by a New York case where a student teacher was injured while participating in a donkey basketball game.
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A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
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You want people to think you slipped into a donkey jacket and bought a Passat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only 37,000 wild horses and donkeys remain on public lands, primarily in Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming.
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Most people come back from Spain with a donkey and a sombrero and clinking carrier bags.
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They shouted hosannas and waved palm branches as Jesus the hoped-for warrior king, the overthrower of Rome, the savior of the world - rode in on a donkey.
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If a donkey brays at you, don’t bray at him.
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The only sounds are made by birds, surf and braying donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lone cyclist, the donkey rider heading for a distant horizon: wherever they are going the eye can not follow.
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I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole.
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His animals were the pig, the donkey, the hippopotamus, and the desert oryx.
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He sees neglected horses and donkeys struggling with heavy loads in ancient souks and helps treat injured animals.
The Sun
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The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other.
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So why don't I trot off and see if my master can use me for donkey-work ?
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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For my own purposes, I would prefer to invest the £30,000 in bank shares, and to let them do the donkey work instead.
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In numerous prints donkeys and sheep enslave millers and shepherds; farmers pull ploughs or carry sacks and baskets.
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I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only sounds are made by birds, surf and braying donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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The adaptation involves more than 100 real animals - pigs, donkeys, horses, ducks - as well as 15 animatronic creations.
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She had the responsibility and honor of driving Ruth and the dolls in her own donkey-cart to the scene of action, where the school children, and some of the idlest or most good-natured of Mrs. Alwynn's friends, were even then assembling, and where Mrs. Alwynn herself was already dashing from point to point, buzzing like a large "bumble" bee.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
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Scarborough donkey owner Guy Smith said all his donkeys were microchipped three years ago.
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You also have a laugh like a braying donkey.
The Sun
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The organisers are looking for old type traps, such as were on display at the Agricultural Shows that were held years ago, as well as gigs, old horse or donkey carts, wagonettes and carriages etc.
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It's just the place to buy a helium-filled Dalmatian, while listening to old blokes with beards making a noise akin to a donkey being garrotted with cheese wire.
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Much admired for his skill at carpentry, Tade made horses and donkeys carts and put bands on the wheels of carts.
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Also slice thinly a shallot, which is a cross between a garlic clove and an onion in much the same way that a mule is the cross between a male donkey and a female horse (´cept a lot different).
American Chronicle
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They can start doing the donkey-work, checking everyone on the hotel's register.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The sanctuary now faces the task of stabling and feeding all the ponies, horses and donkeys over the winter.
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For many years he farmed a small parcel of land in Kilcolman and came to the local Kilcolman creamery with his donkey and cart.
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A mule is a hybrid of a male donkey and a female horse.
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A man was riding a donkey, carrying a couple of baskets towards the jetty.
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The island of Bonnaire in the Dutch Caribbean has a sanctuary which houses donkeys found in the area.
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A few moments later, he emerged, riding a fat old donkey.
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Cadras were a cross-breed of a donkey and a camel, and were common travelling animals.
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The braying of donkeys echoes along the narrow gorge in the dawn.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Thankfully the donkeys and cows were tame, and were easily chased out of camp if they got too close.
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While waiting, do check out these buildable 3D papercrafts of the characters namely Rumpelstiltskin, Donkey, Shrek, Fiona and Puss in Boots by HP.
Shrek Forever After Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen's dressing-room, or the green-room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop-till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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Susan Kelz Sperling cites three such words: blore (like a sheep), crunkle (like a crane), and winx (like a donkey).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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Price above includes sample round-trip airfare from Atlanta to Lima and a climbing package that includes transfers, hotels, camping equipment, most meals, guide, park fees, cooks, porters, donkeys, and muleteer.
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There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op.
Another Day Another Poll
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It's actually a hybrid between two species, so it's rather like crossing a donkey with a horse: what you get is strong but it's completely sterile.
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I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the moment they cause him to breathe in loudly and make a noise like a donkey braying - and he also pulls on his eyelids.
The Sun
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I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bresson's most sublime and devastating vision, "Au hasard Balthazar" 1966, is a modern-day fable about a long-suffering donkey victimized by his owners' pride, greed, lust and sadism.
Salvation at the Forum
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But did Avraham sell Sara to an imperial Pharaoh in exchange for sheep, cattle, donkeys, servants, maids, asses, and camels?!
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way
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In the past, he has called Bush a "donkey, " US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an "illiterate" and former Mexican President Vicente Fox a "lapdog of imperialism.
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He is as stupid as a donkey.
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He donkey-licked them, and in a muddling-run race where he just couldn't quite get into his rhythm, but he picked up, and look out, Melbourne Cup—here we come!
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You'd easily feed a family from here, and right now there's hens as well for eggs, and a pair of donkeys in a large, lush paddock by the stone entrance pillars, with new cast iron estate fencing recently put in, and made by local craftworker Charlie Trigg.
IrishExaminer.com
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The little donkey struggled under its heavy burden.
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"She was involved in the donkey sanctuary and loved horses and all animals.
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Donkeys brayed to one another across threshing floors of harvested wheat.
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Playing Shrek's 1)talkative buddy, a 2)donkey, is 3)veteran 4)comedian Eddie Murphy, another great 5)improviser.
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But in the midst of the progress in China, the donkey cart is a reminder that life has still not changed much for some people.
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Gayson let out a cry that sounded like a mix of donkey bray and parrot squawk.
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I can, but I didn't," continued Uncle Larry, "because my stateroom was the most for'ard in the boat, and the donkey-engine that let down the anchor was right over my head.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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The reliability lab ship fuel oil donkey boiler controlled by relay control system is evaluated using counting method, and mean time to failure (MTTF) of the control circuit is educed.
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Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back.
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Thus, the pronouns in both conditional and relative clause donkey sentences cannot be understood as referring expressions nor as bound variables.
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The couple, who are retired florists and market gardeners, use the greenhouse to grow plants for an annual garden party to raise money for a donkey sanctuary in Devon.
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So if one is in a good rhythm and making inroads, the other will be content to support him and do the donkey work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five people have been charged after the discovery of scores of neglected horses, ponies and donkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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John Brown's donkey's got an india-rubber tail, An 'he rubbed it with camphorated oil! followed by:
THE NUMBERS
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England put in a really great performance and donkey-licked us
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At present, the sands with their donkey rides, funfairs, bouncy castles and little shops selling souvenirs, postcards, buckets and spades and refreshments are dearly loved by older holiday makers and many family visitors.
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He wore a black donkey jacket and black bobble hat and spoke with a northern accent.
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There will be a dog agility display, donkey derby, traditional Irish country cooking, trade stalls, amusements, and lots more, with entertainment for all ages.
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Had the charge of Balaclava taken place on Clapham Common, or had our gallant swordsmen replaced the donkeys on Hampstead Heath, even Tennyson would have been unable to poetise their exploits.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
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She made the sound of donkeys braying.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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And the little old women with bandanas on their heads, who cooked for the soldiers, they outdid themselves: black widow spider meat stewed in horse piss and garlic; beestings on a biscuit, dipped in donkey dung and stuffed in red peppers.
Life Lit by Some Large Vision
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The mule is a hybrid between the horse and a donkey.
Wholphins, Ligers, And Other Crazy Animals Hybrids (PHOTOS)
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Watch video of donkey launching vicious attack.
The Sun
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Instead of that, just a meek and lowly man riding upon the foal of a donkey.
Christianity Today
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He often depicts donkeys, which he says he feels are autobiographical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not merely donkeys chase after carrots, urged by a hefty stick, when the alternative is no job and no pension.
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This material is freighted to Ghyari by truck and hauled up the ice on mule and donkey trains.
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Donkeys have been as much a part of the seaside holiday as ice cream and candy floss ever since 1760, when they first used to carry ladies side-saddle to the bathing huts at Brighton.
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The rugged terrain is inhabited by deer, antelopes and, locals say, wild donkeys.
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Some highlights of the film involve Shrek being gross, Fiona being tough, Donkey talking endlessly, Puss being fat, and Rumpelstiltskin trying to suck people into his contracts.
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Hyde had had no compunction about stealing bread, dried meat, the donkey.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Wild ancestors of domestic cattle, donkeys, pigs, dogs and domestic cats were native to North Africa, Southwest Asia and most probably India.
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Even then, the term sumptuousness may seem ill-chosen, since the nomadic nature of African life persists in spite of palaces and chamberlains and all the elaborate ritual of the Makhzen, and the most pompous rites are likely to end in a dusty gallop of wild tribesmen, and the most princely processions to tail off in a string of half-naked urchins riding bareback on donkeys.
In Morocco
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Along with camels, pigeons, donkeys, oxen, canaries, cats and dogs, the memorial remembers the eight million horses killed in the Great War alone.
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Oh, and the donkeywork is done by ones PhD student who is now to busy to archive, and one obviously wouldn’t stoop to that sort of thing oneself.
Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit
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Wild ancestors of domestic cattle, donkeys, pigs, dogs and domestic cats were native to North Africa, Southwest Asia and most probably India.
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Hyde had had no compunction about stealing bread, dried meat, the donkey.
THE LAST RAVEN
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If a donkey brays at you, don’t bray at him.
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Drug barons operate out of a dockside warehouse, employing some of their fellow countrymen to do the donkey work.
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At a certain lodge in East Africa for example, a little girl was seen leaning out of a window, trying to touch a giant forest hog, a large wild pig the size of a donkey, with a reputation of ripping hunters and their dogs with fearsome tusks.
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My sis won the game of Pin The Tail On The Donkey.
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+ Broon could still fall under the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/unfortunate complications from an ingrowing toe nail operation.
Bookies Close Betting on Another Defection
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The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal's leg in a paddock.
North America — Volume 1
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The tractor roared, the donkey brayed and the water thundered by - it was a diabolical din.
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For a few dirhams you can hire a donkey and muleteer to carry your gear and guide you along remote trails, over low passes linking hidden valleys.
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Dr. Robutnick (spelling) is also very spherical, as is bowser, and donkey kong when he first appeared.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary #105: “Game Theory”
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The next year they went off to the Pyrenees, trekking by mule and donkey.
Berthe Morisot
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If the pronoun were coreferential with its antecedent, the indefinite “a donkey” would have to be a referential term, which seems unlikely, e.g. because the negation of
Discourse Representation Theory
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Pettable goats, dinky donkeys and a play barn with go-karts and death slides.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did everything - put up the set, did the donkey work and acted.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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Our pink donkey's jazzy band bopped past as we got stuck behind the piano.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He'd passed a herd of longhorns a curve-and-a-half back, along with those silly looking mini-donkeys he'd gaped at fifteen years ago.
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Additional stores were loaded onto the katiba `s donkeys and mules, while the section commanders received their final briefing from Habib.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Such donkeywork proved so tiring to East German spymaster Markus Wolf that he told one of his American moles to slow down, my Washington Post colleague Peter Finn recalled for me today:
Red spymaster recalled agony of copying stolen documents
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The Republicans launched a new Web site making fun of the Democrats 'superdelegates, gop. com and features a flying super hero donkey with SD, superdelegate, emblazed on his chest.
CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2008
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The donkey is the beast of burden, and windmills, originally used for grinding maize, abound.
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About 37,300 wild horses and burros - small donkeys - roam federal rangeland in ten western states.
Times, Sunday Times
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They can start doing the donkey-work, checking everyone on the hotel's register.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Donkey Kong and Mario were Nintendo's biggest hits yet and were the most popular arcade machines ever!
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Eating sticks of rock, donkey rides and using deckchairs have also plunged in popularity.
The Sun
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The sanctuary looks after more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys, plus sheep, pigs, and goats.
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She tells Sancho that he can take his donkey with him when he becomes governor and spoil him.
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The braying of donkeys echoes along the narrow gorge in the dawn.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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‘He left me standing there holding the donkey for a quarter of an hour,’ said the poor girl.
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˜There is a possible world with furry donkeys™ goes to ˜furry donkeys are possible™.
Fictionalism
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A few tame lambs scamper around, probably bottle fed, and a single donkey nibbles at the grass among the goat-hair tents.
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These characterful creatures, with their rasping Ee-aw bray, are known to make excellent stable companions for horses, foals, or other donkeys.
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Oh, how I loathed the old Donkey Kong ... but his new persona is quite cracking!
Mortal Kombat vs. Donkey Kong » E-Mail
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Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night.