pack-mule

Airlines have stepped up efforts to police carry-on limits, patrolling airport lobbies to intercept pack-mule passengers and force them to check bags that violate limits before they get through security.

The Tough Tactics to Avoid Luggage Check-In Fees Scott McCartney 2012

She had healed up enough to go on a pack-mule trip with friends up into the mountains last weekend.

In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

She had healed up enough to go on a pack-mule trip with friends up into the mountains last weekend.

In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

The loss to the Comanches, who were hunkering down into their winter camps, was stunning: sixty-nine pack-mule loads of buffalo meat—something more than fifteen thousand pounds of it—and three hundred seventy horses.14

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

She had healed up enough to go on a pack-mule trip with friends up into the mountains last weekend.

In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

Indeed, 7% of respondents to the survey admitted to some remarkable pack-mule habits, saying they regularly carry two laptops with them -- one each for personal and business use.

Time to Leave the Laptop Behind 2008

In that respect, my role is like that of a pack-mule, who has little concern about the matter of his burdens, provided they are carried in a balanced load in a timely fashion.

INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

I was almost starving, for all our food was on the pack-mule.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

By some fatality my pen, ink, and knitting were on the pack-mule; it was very cold, the afternoon fog closed us in, and darkness came on prematurely, so that I felt a most absurd sense of ennui, and went over to the cook-house, where I found Gandle cooking, and his native wife with a heap of children and dogs lying round the stove.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

We are professional space-fillers, frivolously tossing content-pebbles in an ever-widening canyon of demand, cranking out one silly pack-mule after another for toothpaste and sneaker ads to ride on straight into the brains of the stupefied public.

Editorial on journalism and Hitchens | Letter Never Sent 2004