Donkey-boy
"Donkey-boy" in a Sentence (6 examples)
He said, further, that, in the whole course of his experience, north and south, he had never fallen in with any to match the Cairo donkey-boys.
But the people upon the rock had no time to think of the cruel fate of the donkey-boys..
All our donkey-boys, except Joseph, seemed to be called Mohammed, and Joseph's name was not really Joseph—he had only adopted it for the convenience of English patrons.
But no, she said, 'He be "donkey-boying" down on the sands at L—. Wonderful set on donkeys his mind has been ever since the time he was a boy; seems like they was fellow-beings for him.'
A new Mohammed Hassan, who donkey-boyed me, told me Botros had ten thousand feddans and Aboo Stayt eight thousand, figures varying much from the old Md. Hassan's, three years ago.
Mohammed, when he was not donkey-boying, was the chief howling dervish of Luxor.
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