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Definition of Packhorses
1. packhorse [n] - See also: packhorse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packhorses
Literary usage of Packhorses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... that are their wives' packhorses and slaves, (nam grave malum uxor superans
virum suum, as the comical poet hath it, there's no greater misery to a man ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... that are their wives' packhorses and slaves, (nam grave malum uxor superans
virum suum, as the comical poet hath it, there's no greater misery to a man ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"The army was supplied by packhorses, and all tilings were in sacks, so that every
soldier had his sack. Such is the account given by a very worthy and ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... that are their wives' packhorses and slaves, (nam grave malum uxor superans
virum suum, as the comical poet hath it, there's no greater misery to a man ..."
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