It was amusing to see our agogiatae or muleteers pulling out fragments of mirror, and arranging their toilette, such as it was, before encountering the criticism of the Hagiopetrans.
For a long time, while our muleteers slept and the mules and ponies rested, we sat wondering at the great view.
When we were dismounted and it came to settling, the shouting and jawing and swearing and quarreling among the muleteers and with us was nearly deafening.
A pack of ragged Portuguese muleteers crowded around us, offering their beasts at half a dollar an hour--more rascality to the stranger, for the market price is sixteen cents.
Thus accommodated, we descended the mountain with such rapidity, that in an hour we reached Limon, which is the native place of almost all the muleteers who transport merchandize from Nice to Coni and Turin.
The muleteers and luggage had taken another road, but after a time we met again.
After a long while we overtook ourmuleteers without the baggage, for the Kawwas Salim, they said, had been so cruel to them that they had allowed him to go on with the charge towards Carmel.
Several parties of muleteers had halted there at the same time.
The muleteers having left us in the morning, lost their way, and had taken the more precipitous road by Dair Mushmushi.
We were told by a solitary foot-passenger of such incursions having taken place only a day or two before, whereupon our muleteers took fright and hurried on apace.
We were a dozen Englishmen, including three clergymen, undertaking the above journey accompanied by the large train of servants, interpreters, and muleteers usually required for travelling in the East.
But we have seen Pedrillo before; since he was one of the two muleteers who conducted the atajo transporting the spoil from the caravan of the prairie traders.
He's one of my muleteers I'd sent as a messenger to the Tenawa town.
When we began to flag and grow sleepy, and the kafila was pretty quiet, one of the muleteers on foot began to sing: he sang with a voice so plaintive that it was impossible not to have one's attention arrested.
In fact, the servants of the hostelry and the muleteers were already stirring, and walking round our two friends, whom they examined curiously, while attending to their own business.
The huesped had lied like the true landlord he was; he only had in the house two or three muleteers with their animals, and three travellers, who, by their dress, seemed to be hacenderos from the vicinity.
Blows could not be administered, for the muleteers could not get up to the beasts; and entreaties, coaxings, and persuasions were all in vain.
We rode ahead, our peons or muleteers following the beasts of burden.
She once lived six weeks with her party on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, where they saw no one save muleteers going and coming, with their long lines of loaded mules.
At evening the muleteers would amuse the strangers by dancing the national dances, and then repose in picturesque groups just suited to artistic sketching.
When there were no more of these extraordinary voyages, the Mare Nostrum turned its course towards South America, resigning itself to competition in rates with the English and Scandinavians who are the muleteers of the ocean.
These valorous muleteers of the sea defied the enemy in defenseless boats without wireless and without cannons.
About five next morning he came to my bedside to take leave, as his muleteers were preparing to depart.
About half a mile from the southern wall is a stone fountain, where the muleteers and other people who visit the town are accustomed to water their horses.
The wife refused all that day again to enter the kajavah, preferring to walk, till one of the muleteers offered her a seat on the top of one of the baggage mules.
This was quite contrary to our usual custom, as we always found it wiser to see the caravan off first, otherwise the muleteers dawdled half the morning away.
The muleteers came and flung the dripping baggage bales promiscuously about the floor.
Arten had an important, self-conscious bustle about him and looked mysterious; the Zaptiehs seemed awed and asked questions under their breath; the greedymuleteers were distinctly interested; we pretended to be unmoved.
The muleteers stopped here to throw stones on a cairn beside the track and greeted the town with expressions of endearment and praise.
The small cluster of huts that we pass or see in the distance have no accommodation for the horses, and the muleteers will not let them stand out on such a wild night.
Ibrahim stood in the stable door, smoking complacently, and our muleteers were squabbling violently over the roping of a box.
Amongst his other duties he had to purchase the food, pay the muleteers and soldiers, and give tips; and it fell to my lot to do up the accounts with him periodically.
We said goodbye to the Zaptiehs and to the muleteers who were returning to Brusa, and watched them slowly disappear down the road we had come.
The muleteers are sulky about the shelter for their horses, so we take a house for the purpose and the family cram in somewhere else.
The hindmost land on the first, who have stuck hopelessly in the mud, the muleteers hit and shout, and we climb slowly on to firmer ground and wind up the steep path to the street at the top.
Zaptichs came who were to have come at 8 to escort us on the way; but there was no sign of our own retinue, of Constantin, of Ibrahim, of our own hired horses, of the arabas and muleteers with the baggage.
This left Calphopolos and the muleteers without Government protection, which so filled them with terror that in a very few minutes they also were on the way.
The silver bars lay piled on the quay, the muleteers who had brought them were sleeping peacefully in the sunshine at their side.
I obtained two Lahul muleteers with four horses, quiet, obliging men, and two superb yaks, which were loaded with twelve days' hay and barley for my horse.
One of the reasons why the muleteers like to bring their employers to my house is, that they always find plenty of water in it for their beasts, instead of having to drive them down to the river.
Come down and I will give you the book; and mind ye, these muleteers are the very devil, and will do you out of a peck of oats under your very nose, with no more conscience than if it was so much chaff.
We have but to make a trial where we are; let us spread the net, and it will go hard with us if some bird out of all the Muleteers standing about do not fall into it.
In spite indeed of all he could do, the muleteers would not have kept their hands quiet, had not the watch happened just then to come up and clear the ground.
That night a great number of muleteersstopping in the house, and those near it, got up a dance before the door of the Sevillano.
All muleteers have a touch of the ruffian, a spice of the thief, and a dash of the mountebank.
The caravan pursued its march early the next morning, and I took my station among the muleteers and the hangers on (many of whom are always at hand), in order to screen myself from notice.
The muleteers unloosed their loads from their beasts, and drove them away.
The two muleteers had now come out from among the bushes, and were busy refastening the bales on the mules, the ropes having become loosened in the struggles of the animals while the fight was going on.
He had arranged to bribe his master's two servants to ride away when they attacked the gang, and also to settle with the muleteers so that they should take no part in the affair.
Not a very intimate acquaintance, Gerald; but if you take the trouble to go into the courtyard of the inn when we get back you will see one of those rascally muleteers who went in league with the robbers who attacked us on the way.
The muleteers can have no idea that you have but just joined me, and there is little chance of any of my comrades on board ship overtaking us, as all intend to stop for a few days to recruit themselves before going on.
Gerald Burke mounted one of the horses and Geoffrey the other, and at once rode on, the muleteers mounting the other two mules and following with those carrying the baggage.
Geoffrey at once joined him; the servants of the inn brought out the baggage, which was fastened by the muleteers on to two of the animals.
How scant soever our outfit of 'camp comforts' might appear, our Mexican muleteers were much more sparely supplied.
The muleteers had just commenced giving chase to the cattle, when we perceived several horsemen emerge from behind a contiguous eminence, and pursue them at full speed.
Owing to the fame of the Indian hostilities in the North, it was almost impossible to procure the services of Mexican muleteers for the expedition.
The company of muleteers was much more to his liking.
Not a very intimate acquaintance, Gerald; but if you take the trouble to go into the court-yard of the inn when we get back you will see one of those rascally muleteers who were in league with the robbers who attacked us on the way.
I got out of the city without the slightest difficulty, and left the muleteersat Sarignan, whence I posted to Bologna.
I went to the stable, and having treated one of the muleteers to some drink I told him that I would willingly ride one of his mules as far as Sarignan.
For instance, Murgie's muleteers had assured him fervidly that there was such a stage, whereas passing wayfarers had told him quite simply that there was not, nor ever had been.
He watched with dozing interest the muleteers inside as they roped up straw, tightened straps, and otherwise got ready for departure.
The muleteersin passing them, confusedly touched their hats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muleteers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
