Sentence examples for couple of mules from inspiring English sources
The families owned virtually nothing — at best, a couple of mules and a few farming implements — and they were required to give their landlords half of their crops and a quarter or more of the earnings from their own half.
The recession had sucked away some of the discretionary income spent on mule-keeping, and some people at the auction were there to get rid of animals they no longer could afford to keep — although, as Reese said more than once, having a couple of mules was still a lot cheaper than having a bass boat.
This makes me think that a) Justice Alito purchased his wife at an auction, or from her parents in exchange for a plot of land and a couple of mules, or b) she kicked him out of the house the moment he walked in the door after she read his dissent.
"I tend to wear the same things: man-styled pants, soft shirts and sneakers, although I have a couple of Prada mules and slingback-type things, if I really have to pull it together".
Another led a couple of well-fed mules by their reins.
Any typical morning, you can find me riding my kids like a couple of three-dollar mules in a sea of marbles, begging them to move faster.
Behind came a straggling caravan of mules and porters, including a couple of teenage boys who watched the college girls with sullen fascination.
A Little Richard show includes a lot of talking and a lot of fascinating, ephemeral fuss; a couple of songs with the power of mule kicks; and a fair percentage of music that seems to have been created in an Anytown sports bar.
I opted for a couple of Ortlieb Dry Bags and Metal Mule panniers - chunky aluminium boxes that, combined with the bags, turn your previously sleek bike into the sort of overladen vehicle normally only seen fleeing war zones.
At one time many different types of mules were recognized, such as draft mules, farm mules, sugar mules, cotton mules, and mining mules, in declining order of size.
