Small ready-saddled donkeys also clatter patiently down the old stairway to the Marina, and with loud cracks of the whip Felicello's coachmen rattle down the new carriage-road.
But it is specially when donkeys are free that they are most interesting, a tied-up donkey is not nearly so communicative as when she is loose and at liberty, and that after all is not much to be wondered at.
Fenocchio and Giovanni seat themselves again in their corner to wash a little copper out of the tourist stream, and with trembling legs the small donkeys once more unload numbers of forestieri in the Piazza.
We have no less an authority than Dr Franklin to prove that donkeys enjoy music.
Donkeys sometimes exert their ingenuity to their own advantage, like some other creatures.
Degraded as it is supposed they are by nature, and cruelly ill-used as donkeys too often are in England, they are fully as intelligent as horses.
Donkeys are capable of great affection for those who treat them well.
I think I have told you anecdotes enough to show that donkeys are not such stupid creatures as is generally supposed; and I am very sure that, if they were better treated, their character would rise much in public estimation.
To the perfect horror of the clergyman--until he understood that the men could say nothing else in English--the names of the donkeys were spoken with every crack of the whip all the way to Jerusalem.
The lashing of those donkeys became a medley of seeming profanity.
His idea of serving me was to rush on ahead and shove all the little donkeys and blind beggars and children out of my way, at which the latter would weep, and I would have to go back and bribe them into cheerfulness again.
As they yell and bellow, donkeys and carriages and people scramble out of their way until the carriage they precede has rolled rapidly by.
Camels and donkeys and open carriages and mounted police move through the torrent of pedestrians as though they were figures of the imagination, and had no feelings or feet.
Of course we did not visit them, but they are remarkable for their giant tortoises and their wild cattle, donkeys and dogs.
For purposes of poisoning them I used to buy donkeys at a dollar apiece and cut them up for bait.
There are no carriages in town save donkey-carts; some of which are drawn by three donkeys abreast, and are large enough to hold a whole family.
Through its open door, you see that it has a pavement of flagstones, or perhaps of red freestone; and hogs and donkeys are familiar with the threshold.
The contestants rode their donkeys in pairs, a gentleman and a lady holding a long ribbon between them.
Arriving at Beni Hassan at ten o'clock we went ashore and climbed on midget donkeys and rode away to explore the rock tombs.
At Beni-Hassan we rode on donkeys and climbed hills for half an hour to inspect several large cubes of dim atmosphere surrounded by limestone.
They were ably seconded by cats and crowing cocks, as well as by an occasional wakeful donkey; and both cats and donkeys seemed to have voices of almost tropical violence.
Very large quantities of these latter are now being forwarded to the front, and 3000 of the little cattle and donkeys of the natives have been engaged upon the service.
The price paid is two and a quarter dollars per bag, and each bullock carries two bags, some of the smaller donkeys taking one each.
Here we have groups of men squatted about everywhere among their cattle, sheep, and goats: there are a good many donkeys too, and a few mules.
The women, children, and donkeyswere laden with the scanty possessions of the inhabitants.
The following day we rode on donkeys to Burr's Nimrod, a wonderful ruins built of pot-shaped bricks, each weighing several tons.
Zwemer, a missionary from the Dutch Reform Church of Holland, Michigan, rode with us on donkeys to Riggeb-Gem, that ruin more ancient than Babylon.
So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.
The Band (lent from the Militia) marched away, followed by the heavy cavalry of the bathers, and the Uhlan-like donkeys of the sands.
It was useless to defend the bathing-machines; the donkeys and their drivers were no match for heavy ordnance.
Venders of licorice water and sweetmeats did not permit their presence to be overlooked, and donkeys occasionally joined in the chorus.
Along the road stalked camels beneath huge stacks of fragrant clover, and donkeys so laden with newly-cut forage that only their heads and feet could be seen.
As to the donkeys, the riders paid no attention to the restriction, but walked, trotted, or galloped the donkeys as they felt inclined.
We had hardly landed when the donkey boys surrounded us, gesticulating, shouting the merits of themselves and their beasts, and pleading that their donkeys might be selected.
During our drive we saw peasants plowing little plots with single donkeys and crooked wooden plows, or digging between rocks and around grape vines with clumsy, heavy-looking hoes.
After a selection of camels and donkeys had been made by those who desired to ride, the clamorous crowd of natives separated, and we were allowed to start accompanied by but a few, who followed in case they should be needed.
One day the patient donkeys carried the tourists on a long trip to the ruins of the great temple of Seti at Abydos to view its sculptured columns and famous list of kings.
When we arrive at the pyramids you may take camels or donkeys and ride around the base of Cheops.
Nile boats with breeze-filled canvas, caravans of camels on the embankment of the canal, and trains of donkeys laden with marketing for the city by the sea, seemed stationary as we rushed by.
As I could hardly stand I took the guide's arm, and when we reached the bottom two donkeys were in readiness to take us to the hotel.
Quite a large party were waiting to mount their donkeys and mules when we arrived.
Directly after breakfast this morning we hired donkeys to take us to the second cataract.
Our donkeyswere ordered early, and we set off in high spirits.
There were sometimes as many as sixteen camels in one string; then we saw donkeys laden with various things for sale, and numbers of people carrying goods of different kinds.
We hired donkeys and a good guide, and then set off to see the quarries of Syene.
At Bedreshyn we landed, Mohammed procured donkeys for us, and we set off to see the Pyramids of Sakkara.
But it continued to be worked, principally by donkeys for the sake of cheapness, down to the passing of the act for constructing the London and Brighton line in 1837, when the proprietors disposed of their undertaking to the new company.
It is a common sight for the European to see the poor, patient, overladen, and underfed donkeys coming into Cairo every morning heavily laden with the juicy caries that have been grown in the neighbouring fields.
Three old donkeys alone eked out the remnants of their days.
A dusky shape came padding through the trees a little way off, another--two donkeys loose from somewhere, who stood licking each other's necks and noses.
Tchu Kor words descriptive of cock-crowing or braying, they might make fowls or donkeys of themselves without hurting the feelings of others.
It would be difficult to say which were the slowest--the donkeys or the novels.
Our friend of the Notes and Queries speaks of a "vast quantity of donkeys" at Malvern (for at that favoured place donkeys are measured by the peck and bushel).
It is very steep in some parts, but the donkeys are well used to climbing.
Ingleby put off going to the Villa Lucia till the last moment, and arrived at the gate just as the donkeys came merrily along the road.
There was a wonderful amount of obstinacy expressed in that pretty, fair little face; and then Crawley came in to say the donkeys must not be kept waiting.
There was the usual bustle of dismounting, and some scolding from Crawley, and a few sharp raps administered by Marietta to Francesco for making the donkeys canter; while poor Ingleby's excited questions were not even noticed.
We are to have a holiday, because it is New Year's Day, and go on donkeys to La Colla.
All gone out on donkeys to Colla," was the answer.
Crawley, who had set down Baby Bob to toddle into the house, and was settling the payment for the donkeys with Marietta.
Little carts, laden with firkins of grapes, and donkeys with the same genial burden, brushed passed our vettura, finding scarce room enough in the narrow street.
Our yemstchik gave a yell, the donkeys stolidly refused to budge, and then followed one of the most brilliant charges on record.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "donkeys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
