Having used the water up on the additional packhorse that we had brought on this occasion with us, Fisherman left us, taking back the packhorse to the camp; at 6.
Toward evening of the seventh of February he was returning home from a wide circuit with his packhorse laden with buffalo-meat and some beaver-skins, for he had many traps in the neighborhood.
Packhorse beer, my lord," explained a second in stentorian tones--though he knew that Ben was fairly sober.
From Taunton these commodities were distributed, by packhorseor waggon, throughout the county.
Kendal was the principal packhorse station on this line of road, sending large trains of packhorses as far south as Wigan, and over the hills, northward, to Carlisle and the borders of Scotland.
Leaving the packhorsefor Balaam, the Virginian started after them and came into a high tableland, beyond which the mountains began in earnest.
At the last camp before Bourke Jim's packhorse got disgusted and home-sick during the night and started back for the place where he was foaled.
The packhorse was rolling in the mud with the pack-saddle and saddlebags on.
And as he rounded the last spur, with his packhorse trotting after him, I thought he must have felt very lonely.
I turned my back and pretended to tighten the straps and girths on the packhorse while she said good-bye to Jack.
When I rode up to Jack's place I saw his horse and packhorsetied up outside the gate.
I was knocking about Solong at the time, and Jack and I decided to go out together and share his packhorse between us.
Think'st thou, my wit shall keep the packhorse way, That every dudgeon low invention goes?
We now followed the river until a vine brush approached close to its bank, into the cool shade of which our bullock rushed and lay down, refusing to go any farther; our packhorse and most of our riding horses were also equally tired.
A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market.
A packhorse who is driven constantly forwards and backwards to market.
Mrs Bedford, Aunt Georgie, and the girls had come out to see them off, and the captain and Uncle Jack were standing by the fence to which the packhorse was hitched.
He pulled it down and transported the materials by packhorse or mule-train the dozen miles or so across country to this secluded hollow, and with them built the charming house we now see.
The miner and the axeman led the way; but the big plough oxen and plodding packhorse train followed hard along the trails they made.
Supplies had run very low, and the lonely passes over which the trail to civilization led were blocked with snow, while it was a matter of uncertainty when the freighter and his packhorse train could force his way in.
She was used to give obedience--the dumb unquestioning obedience of the packhorse or the sheepdog, and she had no idea for an instant of refusal.
Such a worker is like the packhorse who goes forward to keep ahead of the whip.
Not Packhorse Work But remember there is little virtue in work unless it is getting us somewhere.
When we are growing and letting our faculties develop, we will love even the packhorse job, because it is our "meal ticket" that enables us to travel upward.
I have seen the gorge of Erie where the roaring waters run, I have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying golden in the sun, But the last and best and sweetest is the ride by hill and dale With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail.
I shall hear the roar of rivers where the rapids foam and tear, I shall smell the virgin upland with its balsam-laden air, And shall dream that I am riding down the winding woody vale With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail.
I was standing in the archway of the Packhorse Inn, among the maids and stable-boys gathered to see the pageant pass on its way to hear the Assize sermon.
The fact is, my old friend Abe Walters, that kept the Packhorse Inn is lying dead, and they bury 'en at half after two to-day.
But she went by the Packhorse doorway as if swift horsemen were after her, clutching the camlet cloak across her bosom, glancing over her shoulder, and working her lips inaudibly.
My packhorse is about all in, from the way he hangs back; if we don't strike something pretty soon I'll have to turn him loose.
My packhorse seems to have an idea about where he wants to go," he said.
At Lancaster, Harrisburg, Shippensburg, Bedford, Fort Pitt, and other towns were regular packhorse companies.
When the road was widened and wagons were introduced, the packhorse drivers considered it an invasion of their rights and fiercely opposed it.
When Joe had made one of these turns, he could look right down on the top of the blankets on the packhorsebelow him.
But they couldn't trot far, because the packhorse was following them, all by himself, and if he trotted it shook up his pack too much.
Moreover, the packhorses were, for some reason, particularly badly behaved that day, and Joe and Val nearly lost their tempers a dozen times as they rode into the brush, to head off some packhorse which was trying to get out of line.
However, they reached the Packhorse at last in the small hours of the morning: money, lavishly distributed by Lady Patience, secured the one comfortable room in the inn for the wounded man.
At the Packhorse a serving-man's suit could easily be found for him, and he would be safe enough there, for a little while at least.
He and John Stich had reached the Packhorse some time before cockcrow, and the landlord had been only too ready to do anything in reason to further the safety of the fugitive, so long as his own interests were not imperilled thereby.
In the small private parlour of the Packhorse Patience had sat rigid as a statue, while those shouts of triumph seemed to strike her heart as with a hammer.
He was supposed to be an additional serving-man, come to help at the Packhorse in view of her ladyship's unexpected stay there.
They lingered long in North Wales, that little nest of undisturbed peaks, and it was with the descendants of this species that the Romans mated their military animals and produced the packhorse so necessary in rugged West Britain.
Our packhorse has disappeared in the night; I've looked high and low for him, Dick, but it's no use.
That the packhorse had been stolen was not a matter of such importance, for they could get on without an additional animal; but in regard to their saddle horses the case was vastly different.
The packhorse is gone, and we'll never see him again.
He left his home in Missouri in the spring of 1822, and started for the heart of the Rocky Mountains, with a single packhorse to carry his camp equipage, and a single riding-horse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packhorse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
