How To Use Packhorse In A Sentence
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Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
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I think of Derwent Hall and the shallow river that ran beside it, the packhorse bridge and the bridle path.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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The rich, throat-catching smell of hard worked packhorses hit me even as I drew in a sharp gasp of amazement.
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The bandolero caught up the packhorse's leadrope but the packhorse balked and squatted on its haunches.
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In the foreground a packhorse, loaded with merchandize, is driven towards an inn (with welcoming hostess); a network of inns across the country was important for commerce.
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The rest of the Moshaine followed at a run, algai'd'siswai and wives and children, jumping down on the fly, craftsfolk and traders and gai'shain, most pulling heavily loaded packhorses and mules, near to six thousand altogether.
A Crown of Swords
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By the time he was four he would have been riding an old packhorse.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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The green lanes used by off-roaders are hundreds of years old, and were intended for horses and carts, pedestrians, packhorses, cattle and sheep.
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A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
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But perhaps they would be lucky, and the supplies and the packhorse would be in the middle of all the juniper trees up at the top of the hill.
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The "cayuse" bell sounded nearer and nearer, and directly from the dense forest a packhorse came stepping with care over the fallen logs, where the sign of a trail was yet dim to any eyes but those of a woodsman.
That Girl Montana
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A tributary feeds in and has two stone bridges; the one for infrequent cars is frizzy with maidenhair ferns, two yards away its predecessor for packhorses is painted with lichens.
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Eight geldings, three packhorses and a litter with its team of six litter horses, that had been brought up to Berwick from Whitehall, had already been sent into Scotland to help transport this party on the first leg of its journey.
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Everything had to be carried there by packhorses - even chaff to feed the horses.
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Nearly every week I would ride into Coolgardie for stores, and walk out again leading the loaded packhorse, our faithful little chestnut "brumby," i.e., half-wild pony, of which there are large herds running in the bush near the settled parts of the coast.
Spinifex and Sand
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The Maythorn Cross was a boundary marker at the crossroads of a ‘salt trail’ between Cheshire and Wakefield, where drovers ferried salt in panniers by packhorse.
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He licked his lips and urged his horse into a trot; the packhorse followed at the end of its lead.
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Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
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Before the Kingston / Queenstown road was built goods were taken by steamer or by packhorse from the railhead at Kingston, and this track follows part of the old pack track.
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The original buildings at Tarn House date back to 1685 when the property, with its tarn, was an important centre for stabling, watering and trading in packhorses.
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In 1748 he gave protection to John Wesley after he tried to preach his message standing on the packhorse bridge.
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She drank from the fountain, then helped Belegir unsaddle the packhorse, unrope the animals, and strip the other two ponies of their remaining tack.
The Warslayer
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`Yeah, sure, but if I offer to be packhorse, shall we walk and talk?
TICKLED PINK
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`Yeah, sure, but if I offer to be packhorse, shall we walk and talk?
TICKLED PINK
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The packhorse clopped behind; even its head was bowed.
DRAGON GAMES
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After the Great War, he made his way north and turned up in Wyoming with three saddle horses and one packhorse.
Come Again No More
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I think of Derwent Hall and the shallow river that ran beside it, the packhorse bridge and the bridle path.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
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Mullan reported that they had several hundred horses with them, many of which were packhorses and ‘most of them were loaded with heavy bales of dried meat and furs.’
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I started tightening saddles and untying the biggest camp items from the packhorse.
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The knights all sat impatiently on their mounts, while several grooms loaded some packhorses with a month's worth of supplies, food, blankets, and clothing.
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Everyday features of the countryside from sheepfolds to packhorse bridges carry all kinds of fascinating clues about how man's activities have shaped the Lake District landscape.
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The smallest barge had a capacity vastly greater than the sturdiest packhorse.
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Before the Kingston / Queenstown road was built goods were taken by steamer or by packhorse from the railhead at Kingston, and this track follows part of the old pack track.
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In her ground-breaking work on the medieval warhorse, Ann Hyland notes the importance of ‘destriers [warhorses], coursers, rounceys, palfrey and packhorses’.
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The Sun reports the surprising news that reliable waddling packhorse Dirk Kuyt doesn't really want to play for Liverpool any more and would like to be reunited with his goateed personal organ grinder Rafa Benítez at Internazionale.
Football transfer rumours: Charles N'Zogbia to Birmingham?
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Most of the courtiers and other members of the entourage rode, while baggage and other goods were carried on packhorses.
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I think of Derwent Hall and the shallow river that ran beside it, the packhorse bridge and the bridle path.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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While the muleteer and packhorses beelined for the next camp through the tilled fields, we insisted that the four of us hike along the escarpment for the rest of the journey.
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We try to limit 180 pounds to each packhorse not including the packsaddle and pads.
Why do you love or hate camping?
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I have supplies and a packhorse hidden near the hill that lies a mile north of the city.
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The filled casks were then brought on small carts or by packhorses, each carrying two firkins.
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In the late Middle Ages, there was a toll for crossing the bridge of 1d. per cart or packhorse carrying merchandize.
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I stumbled over a motorcycle that was leaking gasoline, and bumped into a shopping cart piled with junk, the ever-present shopping cart that had become the modern packhorse of the poor.
Wild Dreams of Reality, 10
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These were called parfleches, and they became the wrappers for the compressed dried meat that was put up in bales weighing from ‘thirty to forty-five and fifty pounds each’ ready for transport on packhorses.
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The expedition used packhorses to carry their food and tents across the mountains.
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Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
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Accessible only by packhorse—a rough, 15-mile ride up Boulder Basin—it's true wilderness, some of the wildest land in America.
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We try to limit 180 pounds to each packhorse not including the packsaddle and pads.
Why do you love or hate camping?
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Unless you were monstrously tall, you could see nothing in front of you except for the back of someone's head or by chance, the flanks of a donkey or packhorse carrying goods.
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It was clear that the packhorses ' loads were getting lighter, and to the travellers, it indicated that they were nearing the end of the journey.
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packhorse" were the only means of conveying information.
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