One thing was certain, the muleteer could go no farther up the mountain, and yet he was mortally afraid to return alone to the Kurdish robbers.
Looking up we saw, sure enough, our two zaptiehs and muleteer on the very spot where we had left them the evening before.
The muleteer gave up in despair, and refused even to help us carry our loads to the top of an adjoining hill, whither the zaptiehs had proceeded to wait for us.
The most difficult task, perhaps, in our work of preparation was to strike a bargain with an Armenian muleteer to carry our food and baggage up the mountain on his two little donkeys.
Even the Armenian muleteer so far overcame his fear of the Kurdish robbers as to indulge in one of his accustomed funeral dirges; but it stopped short, never to go again, when we came in sight of the Kurdish encampment.
We cut off discussion at once; told the muleteer he would either go on, or lose what he had already earned; and informed the zaptiehs that whatever they did would be reported to the mutessarif on our return.
All this time our tall, gaunt, meek-looking muleteer had stood silent.
A remonstrance on our part for carelessness in driving brought from the muleteer a burst of Turkish profanity that made the rocks of Ararat resound with indignant echoes.
It was here that the muleteer showed evident signs of weakening, which later on developed into a total collapse.
Wisely resolving to avoid temptation, Alphonse turned away, when, to his surprise, he perceived the muleteer halting on a rising ground at a little distance.
The conversation with the muleteer had been, thus far, carried on in Spanish--which Ernest spoke fairly enough.
A muleteer would have rolled himself up on the floor in his blanket; but we had no blankets, and did not fancy the floor.
Where the muleteer bestowed himself I knew not; but subsequent events sufficiently explained the reason why we were not favoured with his company.
Here, the muleteer had several acquaintances, and the owner of the posada was his cousin.
Neither the alcade or De Toro had power to speak a word; but the luckless muleteer cried lustily, and in the name of every saint, for mercy and forgiveness.
The muleteer has had so much money that he can very well take him back again; he is a friend of his father’s.
About the boy who came, that rascal of a muleteer did me out of a ducat.
A kindly train-packer offered him a situation as muleteer in a pack train going to the mountains--for he knew tracks and passes and could ride.
THE monarch from the muleteer with care, In front, snipt off a bulky lock of hair.
WHEN day arrived the monarch was surprised, To see each muleteer alike disguised; No hair in front of either now was seen; Why, how is this?
Of course there was considerable exaggeration in all this, but our muleteer began to pray that he might be soon safe again in Jerusalem.
If the cargo be not nicely balanced, the muleteer either unloads or adds a few stones to the lighter portion--the additional weight being compensated by the greater comfort with which a well-poised burden is carried.
The Spanish muleteer creeps along by its side in a track which he has made through the sand or pebbles; he seems ashamed to trample on this lordly way, for which, in his petty wants, he has no occasion.
This counterfeit of death is more equalizing, as Don Quixote says, than death itself, for an honest Spanish muleteer stretched on his hard pallet sleeps sounder than many an uneasy trickster head that wears another's crown.
The muleteer either walks by the side of his animal or sits aloft on the cargo, with his feet dangling on the neck, a seat which is by no means so uncomfortable as it would appear.
The muleteer ceased his merry song, and did not crack or flourish his long whip as before, but chid his beasts in a half-muttered voice, and urged them faster, to reach the village before nightfall.
Beside her stood a muleteerwho had drawn up his mule and cart close beside the footway for safety; she made one effort to reach it, but her outstretched arms alone moved, and paralyzed by terror, she sank motionless upon the pavement.
I elected to penetrate straight inland by the shortest way; a capable muleteer at once presented himself.
I paid the crestfallen muleteer then and there; took down my bags, greatly lightened, and departed with them.
During her recital mymuleteer had grown thoughtful.
Inez had forgotten to lock it after receiving from the muleteer the note from Alcala which crushed her last hope.
The poor girl glanced up and down the street; there was not a single person to be seen, save a muleteer who chanced to be passing, and who turned in some surprise to see a senora standing alone at the entrance of a mansion.
But before the hour was over, Inez, who had gone back to her watch at the entrance, saw the muleteer returning.
And the muleteerheld up to Alcala the epistle which had been intrusted to his charge.
The figure of the muleteer was the only one visible at this point upon the narrow road, which lay through a cutting.
The muleteer guessed from his gesture that the cavalier wished to write, and saw that he had no writing materials save the pencil-case in his hand.
As Alcala slowly rode onwards, following in the track of the bulls, he saw a muleteer approaching towards him.
There was room on the margin for a few words; and resting the paper on his saddle, after giving the muleteer charge of his spear, Alcala hastily scrawled the brief note which was soon afterwards received by his sister.
The muleteer was no stranger to Alcala, who knew him to be an honest but ignorant man, unable even to read.
On his last journey but one the muleteer was told to bring back only half the empty boxes; but, alas!
The muleteer threw some cords over his beast's trappings, the better to secure his victim.
The muleteer had been ordered to go no farther than was necessary to get a view of the convent, and that, El Tuerto affirmed, he would obtain within a few hundred yards of the mountain-top.
Having now obtained all the information he could hope for, and far more than he had expected to get, the indefatigable muleteer set out on his return to the platform.
When a second muleteer had come with the same breathless haste he gave the quiet order, "You will take these senors to Santa Gertrudis.
The big muleteer who had led the retreat returned on a shuffling run, and as he stood before the hacendado, sombrero in hand, Seyd saw the fear in his face.
At last the muleteer was tired, and the traders continued their journey, taking with them matter for talk about the poor fellow who had been cudgelled.
Here and there a solitary shepherd might be descried driving his flock down the declivities, to be folded for the night; or a muleteer and his lagging animals, threading some mountain path to arrive at the city gates before nightfall.
As we descended the mountain defile, there was no longer herdsman normuleteer to be seen, nor anything to be heard but our own footsteps and the lonely chirping of the cricket.
The muleteer is the general medium of traffic, and the legitimate traverser of the land, crossing the peninsula from the Pyrenees and the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the Serrania de Ronda, and even to the gates of Gibraltar.
Often, the song of the muleteer is composed at the instant, and relates to some local scene, or some incident of the journey.
The man who murdered the muleteer was hanged in the fortress.
Oh, that's nothing--a muleteer was murdered there some years since.
The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads, with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring.
The muleteer gave his beast a hearty thwack; the custom-house officer sprang forward and seized the halter; whereupon the corporal levelled his piece and shot him dead.
The shepherd paused on the fold of the hill, the muleteer in the midst of the road; each took off his hat and remained motionless for a time, murmuring his evening prayer.
The same afternoon the Muleteer sent in his papers, and next morning he went away on leave, pending his retirement from the service.
The Muleteer ceased from his temporary pride of place as acting brigadier-general, and reverted to his position as junior captain of the Potterers; and that honest old corps stolidly returned to barracks.
The Muleteer had the happy fortune to live, not in the bad old days, but in the good new days.
Anyhow, the poor Muleteer had no alternative but to return to England.
The Muleteer was not his original by-name, although there may be a good many people who never knew him by another.
At length, the Duke and the Muleteer both equally hoarse, the distinguished stranger fluent in encomia while an amused smile played over his features, the field-day came to an end.
To every two hundred animals a muleteer was allotted to take charge of them on the route.
All day they remained concealed in the ravine and for a great part of the following night; not a Moor, however, was to be seen, excepting now and then a peasant returning from his labor or a solitary muleteer hastening toward Granada.
That is Jauja to the right,” the muleteer said, “and that is Pasco to the left; they are both large towns.
You would hardly see a soul in the streets while the sun is high,” the muleteersaid upon Stephen remarking on the number of people still about.
I have never felt a great earthquake,” themuleteer said, “but I have felt little ones.
Assuredly there are,” themuleteer said confidently.
The muleteer removed the valises and packs, gave a double handful of corn to each animal, and then, hobbling them, allowed them to wander about to pick up what they could.
Accordingly the three mules were at once brought round, the baggage divided between them, and five minutes later, after blowing out the candle and locking the door behind him, the muleteer mounted and rode off with Stephen.
There are many,” the muleteer said; “but it is not everyone that can be trusted.
The muleteer was a son of Adam; I need not say a word more.
Let no muleteer Be afraid To weep; for a brave heart may Lament for a dear, Fickle maid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muleteer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
