14 Metaphors for donkeys

The Persian donkey is unquestionably the best in the East, and is not only speedy, but as strong as a horse.

I hope that donkey of ours isn't a psychic donkey, or, if he is, that he'll listen to reason and be content with his escorts of flesh and blood.

The reader will probably be at a loss to discover the nature of this triumph, as no object was gained, and the donkey was obviously the victor; on this point, however, we are sorry to say, we can offer no good explanation.]

The little donkey is a still more original animal.

The donkey there is Midas; the heifer, Io. THE BLACKBIRD The showman's on the job!

The donkey that drew it was bony and blind of one eye; but he winked the other knowingly at you, as if to ask if you saw the joke of the thing.

The donkey was a shapeless mound of white, all the lines and gear buried deep.

The Egyptian donkey is a big fellow with a light-grey coat, capable of carrying a substantial load, hardy, generally docile, and less stubborn than most of the species.

My donkey was a pale, drab little beast, woolly and dejected.

That donkey, with its worn panniers, was the only witness and helper of their work.

So the donkey and the Somali mule that generations of fly have rendered tolerant to the trypanosome are the most reliable of our beasts of burden.

Again, all the horses and donkeys neigh; for the bray of a donkey is only a harsher neigh, pitched on a different key, it is true, but a sound of the same characteras the donkey himself is but a clumsy and dwarfish horse.

Donkeys are the chief carriers.

From French or Spanish territory this little unknown land is to be reached by what is called a "wagon-way," but the road is so bad that the sure-footed little donkeys of the Pyrenees are by far the best means of locomotion, unless one would go up on foot, a matter of twenty kilometers or more from Hospitalet in Spanish or Porté in French territory.

14 Metaphors for  donkeys