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Examples
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Outside the door a large number of peasants had gathered, some with packmules.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Outside the door a large number of peasants had gathered, some with packmules.
The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and packmules to go to the mines.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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So each night they heard accounts of the rich man who had gone ahead, with his retinue, his family and servants and packmules.
Civilization Tales of the Orient Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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Here we were to begin our trip overland, on packmules and pack-oxen, scores of which had been gathered to meet us.
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Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and packmules to go to the mines.
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Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and packmules to go to the mines.
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Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and packmules to go to the mines.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1 1855
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