Two by two or four by four, according to their size, the shells for the guns had to be carried up from the forward dumps in little wicker panniers slung across the backs of horses and mules.
The loaded panniers thumping heavily upon his ribs restored him fully to his senses.
He looked with suspicion on the wicker panniers which were slung across his sturdy back.
The looks of the men, the horses tied to the door-posts, the mules with their panniers of fruits and leaves reaching to the ground, all speak of Gil Blas, and of what we have read of humble life in Spain.
The roads show lines of mules and horses, loaded with panniers of fruits, or sweeping the ground with the long stalks of fresh fodder laid across their backs, all moving towards a common center.
There are also mules, asses, and horses with bananas, plantains, oranges and other fruits in panniers reaching almost to the ground.
On the grass where the camel had lain down, we saw on one side flies collected in great numbers, but none on the other: this made us conclude that one of the panniers must have contained sweets, and the other only grain.
The ammunition waggons, the ambulance carts, the French mules, with their panniers full freighted, thronged the ravine below our Light Division, which is the straight or rather the crooked road down to the attack on the right.
But to Yorick it is not so much the donkey who is absurd as the fantastic creature who made the panniers and cooked the macaroons.
To render him absurd you must bring him into relation with man; you must clap upon his back panniers of human devising or give him macaroons kneaded by a human cook.
The pannierswere indeed not only filled to the top, but piled up with much skill and care, so that the load met over the animal's back.
We didn't know it until we were told so by an old man hobbling along by the side of a donkey with panniers on its back, and in the panniers fresh fish to sell in the villages through which we were to pass.
Even the street cleaners shoveled into the pannierson the donkeys' backs the dirt and refuse that had been collected on the streets.
Small donkeys with panniers were used instead of wagons for the transfer of almost every kind of material in the city and country.
The fruit-sellers gave better value for sixpence, even though their open panniers seemed always liable to the predatory paws of the water police.
Mules bringing wood from the country were dragged out of the path, and the town asses, with theirpanniers full of street-filth, were drawn up by the wall.
The jogging of the mule, a most bony and stiff-limbed beast, had flattened the panniers that hung by its side, and made the round cakes of bread to protrude from the open mouth of one of them.
I can't well tell how it is, that as Panniers don't become an Ox, so neither does Learning become a Woman.
But, I suppose, you can't deny but Panniers will look better upon an Ox, than a Mitre upon an Ass or a Sow.
At present we see merely a few old women bearing panniers toward the city, and rope-makers at work upon great streamers of hemp which stretch from tree to tree.
Little donkeys trot amiably by, with huge double panniers that recall the cacolet.
So, with the animals saddled and the panniers packed, the cave-dwellers started carefully along the ledge towards the slope.
Then Jeb brought the mounts from the barn and Sary helped him strap the panniers and kit to Choko.
On the donkey's back was a pair of time-worn panniers from which bulged a medley of fruit and vegetables.
Two women and two men sat about this pipe slowly filling their amphoras of Grecian form, while donkeys waited patiently in the background bearing panniers for the water-vessels on their backs.
It was in this spirit the man addressed himself to Rhys the next morning, whilst helping Lewis to transfer the lime from the panniers to the freshly-dug potato ground, and the unturned stubble of oats and barley.
These, as the man knew of old, had to be examined, priced, and paid for before Mrs. Edwards would allow one of his packs or panniers to be unloaded.
But on her next journey to the barn she saw Lewis bringing up the pony laden with the panniers of bracken, but no child.
At Spearman's he was provided with a travelling kit, consisting of a waterproof cape with two minute panniers on either side, marked with the red cross, and furnished with unappreciated surgical dressings.
It accommodates the operation-table in the centre between the two poles, while along the sides are ranged the field panniers which serve as tables for instruments and dressings.
The door was one night broken open, and every hound, panniers and all, stolen.
The women attend to the outside affairs, and carry everything necessary for their husband’s food in small panniers on the head or fastened to the head.
The women cultivate the fields, and carry all their food from the mountains in panniers or baskets on the head or fastened to the head.
Into the waistband of her trousers she tucks opposite corners of both handkerchiefs so that they hang as panniers: the hands pushed through show the panniers empty; she would receive gifts.
Sometimes, also, "passengers" were carried in the panniers of the packhorses, instead of goods.
Now and then a mule or a donkey trotted by, with panniers full of vegetables, of charcoal or of bread, between which on the beast's neck sat perched a man in a short blouse.
A dozen grey asses went towards Ronda, one after the other, theirpanniers filled with stones; they walked with hanging heads, resigned to all their pain.
I went on, meeting now and then a string of asses, their panniers filled with stones or with wood for Carmona; the drivers sat on the rump of the hindmost animal, for that is the only comfortable way to ride a donkey.
At last I overtook a pedlar plodding along by his donkey, the panniers filled to overflowing with china and glass, which he was taking to sell in Ecija.
A donkey with panniers was waiting in a clump of brush by the covert side, and as soon as the panniers were packed, its head was turned homeward over a wild bit of moorland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panniers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
