Donkeys

Lions led by donkeys is as true today, as it was in the trenches. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

For the first time in donkeys years a Vice President will not be in the running. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And he whistled, caught some flies, called his donkeys by name: ❋ Lisa Kaas Boyle (2010)

Each carrying two wooden boxes, the donkeys are accompanied by garbage men who have been renamed "ecological operators". ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wild burros, also known as donkeys and jackasses, live throughout the North American hot deserts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the same way I furiously cut their mouths open to make the rows of their teeth show to better advantage, and I added several jaws to each mouth, so that it would appear that although the donkeys were already rotting they were vomiting up a little more their own death, above those other rows of teeth formed by the keys of the black pianos. ❋ Unknown (1944)

The dogs were led by attendants, apparently selected on the principle of the larger the dog the smaller the custodian; while the donkeys were the only creatures unmoved by their surroundings, for they slept peaceably through the procession, occasionally waking up to bray their sense of boredom. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The donkeys are the commonest, being the cheapest; and very patient, hard-working little servants they are. ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)

He had brought a bridle in one hand and a wisp of hay in the other; but being unable, on account of the crowd, to approach the kází, he got tired of waiting, so, holding up the bridle and the hay, he cried out, "Khoor! khoor! khoor!" as he used to do in calling his donkeys, thinking this would induce the kází to come to him. ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

Having examined these matters sufficiently, we descended the hill towards the village, meeting parties of visitors, mounted on donkeys, which is a much more sensible way of ascending in a hot day than to walk. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Shakeeb Al-Jabri, a Syrian activist in Lebanon, explained on Twitter that one of the actors "calls the donkeys advanced 4x4s that work on biofuel and cannot be detected by Iranian and Russian radars." ❋ By ROBERT MACKEY (2012)

NTUI is a lobbying group and can call donkeys elephants if it chooses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I take no offense to being called the donkeys, the dolts, the faiders etc …. .thats all part of fandom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The donkeys are a special part of the community, now one of three Colorado towns allowed to have gambling. ❋ Associated Press Cripple Creek, CO Colorado (2009)

They move with a bit of coaxing, as do children and groups of giggling women, but the donkeys are a little more stubborn.

Let's not be real "donkeys" and do the right thing for the party. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, maids in Lebanon are commonly referred to as "donkeys" by their employers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today, he calls the Palestinian Authority leaders he once served, who are based in the West Bank, "donkeys" and says Hamas, his onetime nemesis, are "rightful defenders of the Palestinian people." ❋ Unknown (2009)