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- noun Plural form of
donkey .
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Examples
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Lions led by donkeys is as true today, as it was in the trenches.
Perverting The Course Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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For the first time in donkeys years a Vice President will not be in the running.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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And he whistled, caught some flies, called his donkeys by name:
Lisa Kaas Boyle: An Obama Christmas Lisa Kaas Boyle 2010
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And he whistled, caught some flies, called his donkeys by name:
Lisa Kaas Boyle: An Obama Christmas Lisa Kaas Boyle 2010
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Each carrying two wooden boxes, the donkeys are accompanied by garbage men who have been renamed "ecological operators".
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Wild burros, also known as donkeys and jackasses, live throughout the North American hot deserts.
On this Vital Amendment to protect Horses from Slaughter 2006
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In the same way I furiously cut their mouths open to make the rows of their teeth show to better advantage, and I added several jaws to each mouth, so that it would appear that although the donkeys were already rotting they were vomiting up a little more their own death, above those other rows of teeth formed by the keys of the black pianos.
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The dogs were led by attendants, apparently selected on the principle of the larger the dog the smaller the custodian; while the donkeys were the only creatures unmoved by their surroundings, for they slept peaceably through the procession, occasionally waking up to bray their sense of boredom.
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The donkeys are the commonest, being the cheapest; and very patient, hard-working little servants they are.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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He had brought a bridle in one hand and a wisp of hay in the other; but being unable, on account of the crowd, to approach the kází, he got tired of waiting, so, holding up the bridle and the hay, he cried out, "Khoor! khoor! khoor!" as he used to do in calling his donkeys, thinking this would induce the kází to come to him.
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869
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