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  • Rich merchants on bullock-carts and poor ones on foot.

    Kanha's Dream 2010

  • The road, which was well-lined with temples and smaller buildings, was crowded into the city, with bullock-carts churning up the dust, camels, palankeens, and hordes of travellers both mounted and on foot.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Except where there are rivers or roads suitable for bullock-carts or pack bullocks, they do nearly all the carrying trade of Perak, carrying loads on “elephant tracks” through the jungle.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Taipeng is a thriving, increasing place, of over six thousand inhabitants, solely Chinese, with the exception of a small Kling population, which keeps small shops, lends money, drives gharries and bullock-carts, and washes clothes.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • + Low weight (easy to transport on wheelbarrows or bullock-carts).

    Chapter 4 1991

  • · Low weight (devices like the CINVA-Ram can, if necessary, be taken along as unaccompanied flight luggage; easy to transport on wheelbarrows or bullock-carts).

    Chapter 4 1988

  • Natives in wicker hats guided bullock-carts or moved among the fields.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • The smart native cop on duty at the Kesawan crossroads, with little traffic to direct except for a few leisurely bullock-carts making for the railway station.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • The road, which was well-lined with temples and smaller buildings, was crowded into the city, with bullock-carts churning up the dust, camels, palankeens, and hordes of travellers both mounted and on foot.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • The road, which was well-lined with temples and smaller buildings, was crowded into the city, with bullock-carts churning up the dust, camels, palankeens, and hordes of travellers both mounted and on foot.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

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