Read full poem →A maiden came by on an ambling mule,
Her gown was rose-red and her kerchief blue,
Dictionary Entry
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. muledeer muletrain mulemule packmule old
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Poetry examples for “mule”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The fox-hunting squires, the England of Church and of State,
The England half mule and half ox, writes you down, O Voltaire:
The quack grass of popery flourished in France, you essayed
Read full poem →Tears fill'd his mild blue eye.
On his white mule, across the bridge,
A cassock'd priest rode by.
Read full poem →The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace--all and each
Read full poem →The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace--all and each