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  • Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Parks was assigned to document segregation; Mr. Yette told the Tennessee Tribune in 1996 that he served "as a reporter, researcher, pack-horse, camera-loader . . . front-man and chauffeur" for the established photographer.

    Obituary: Samuel F. Yette, influential newsman, first black Newsweek correspondent T. Rees Shapiro 2011

  • I live in Singapore, but my MIL is coming to visit from the UK soon and I'm sure she wouldn't mind being my pack-horse! x

    de-stashing Katy 2009

  • Leaving the pool, I follow what must be a pack-horse or droving track four feet wide through the old chestnut terraces, between drystone walls called calades.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Leaving the pool, I follow what must be a pack-horse or droving track four feet wide through the old chestnut terraces, between drystone walls called calades.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The almanac, wrote 19th-century literary historian Moses Coit Tyler, is "the very quack, clown, pack-horse and pariah of American literature."

    Rare Books on Early America 2008

  • “Ay, madam,” replied young Seyton, “as when he carried the billet enclosed in the sword-sheath to Lochleven — marry, the good youth knew no more than a pack-horse what he was carrying.”

    The Abbot 2008

  • We leisurely watered our horses, and he was very much surprised to see Thring dismount and lead the pack-horse down to the water, so much so that he never said another word, but remained staring at us until we departed, when he commenced again.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • This morning the horse that was so bad last night was found dead, which puts us in a very awkward position — without a pack-horse.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

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