Dapple

I'm accustomed to call Dapple; I begged this lady duenna here to take care of him when I came into the castle, and she got as angry as if I had said she was ugly or old, though it ought to be more natural and proper for duennas to feed asses than to ornament chambers.

Don Quixote 2002

He urged the broken-down horse forward, with Data close behind on the hapless ass known as Dapple.

VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

He urged the broken-down horse forward, with Data close behind on the hapless ass known as Dapple.

VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

He urged the broken-down horse forward, with Data close behind on the hapless ass known as Dapple.

VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

Sancho's ass "Dapple" ever been noticed or accounted for?

Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

The entire incident is so unique as to be worth a moment's dwelling on, the more so since it has a direct connection with the subject of this little book, it having been Maria Edgeworth's singular fortune – mounted upon her faithful "Dapple," that remarkable war-horse!

Maria Edgeworth 1905

She rode her cob or pony "Dapple" beside him, when he went his rounds; she kept the accounts of the whole expenditure under his directions; she even seems to have acted for him as a sort of clerk or sub-agent.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

We have only one other extract bearing upon the situation, namely the following picture from Miss Edgeworth's pen of the historic battlefield of Ballinamuck, to which – mounted upon the trusty "Dapple" – she rode in company with her father and Mrs. Edgeworth.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

The figure leans a little forward, resting the hands on a, stout stick which Bentham always carried, and had named "Dapple"; the attitude is quite easy, the expression of the whole quite mild, winning, yet highly individual.

At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830

"My ass," said Sancho, "which, not to mention him by that name, I'm accustomed to call Dapple; I begged this lady duenna here to take care of him when I came into the castle, and she got as angry as if I had said she was ugly or old, though it ought to be more natural and proper for duennas to feed asses than to ornament chambers.

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581