white mule

Example Sentences

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“When I was a kid, I saw a movie and the general in the movie was riding a white mule. When it came time to get something to ride, I said, ‘I don’t want to get a horse.

From Washington Times

Insisting that she needed to drain the flask before the authorities caught her—it was a year into nationwide Prohibition—she offered the guests a swig of what she called the best white mule.

From The New Yorker

Journalist Chuck Cecil’s book about prohibition, “Astride the White Mule,” described the 1927 ambush as “the most abhorrent occurrence during the state’s long prohibition era,” one that turned the state against a continued alcohol ban.

From Washington Times

Patrons were inside the White Mule Saloon that shares the building, but all were able to safely escape.

From Washington Times

He took the pickup across the dip slowly, almost tenderly, as if the old truck were the blind white mule, too old to be treated roughly any more.

From Literature