sumpter

Example Sentences

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The rest of us proceeded on foot, though we had no less than three sumpter beasts to carry our food, instruments, clothes, etc.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

And the teams and sumpter animals were available as well in so far as he had need of them.

From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire

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 Huish, Robert

They had three saddle-horses and four sumpter mules.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

She had also two sumpter mules richly caparisoned, and carrying a fine bed and all the necessary implements for cooking.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de