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Examples
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Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse.
All Gold Canon 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The almanac, wrote 19th-century literary historian Moses Coit Tyler, is "the very quack, clown, pack-horse and pariah of American literature."
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“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
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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.
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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.
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