aparejo

• Back of "C" Troop's quarters lolled a half-breed Mexican packer, with a brace of mules, one girt with saddle, the other in shrouding aparejo--diamond-hitched, both borrowed from the post trader with whom Blakely's note of hand was good as a government four per cent.--all ready to follow the lieutenant to the field whither right and duty called him. —  An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
• The animal itself and its aparejo were never recovered by us On my arrival at Chuhuichupa I found everything satisfactory. —  Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
• In a day or two, one is all but felled by the stench and corruption of the worm-filled wound--when the aparejo is lifted.... Just before the halt this night, an old gray mule, one of the tortured, had strayed from the bell; sick, indeed, when that jangle failed to hold her to the work. —  Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
• On top of both was placed the aparejo, which was cinched by a wide grass-bandage. —  The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
• The animal itself and its aparejo were never recovered by us. —  Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

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