Onager
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8 examples of Onager in a sentence
However, it was not long before they submitted to this new service, for the onager, being less refractory than the zebra, is frequently put in harness in the mountainous regions of Southern Africa, and it has even been acclimatized in Europe, under zones of a relative coolness.
About this time the female
onager
gave birth to a young one which belonged to the same sex as its mother, and which throve capitally.
Now, too, the onager, the goats, and the sheep in the corral furnished daily the milk necessary to the colony.
Ayrton departed at dawn on the 9th, taking the cart drawn by one onager, and two hours after, the electric wire announced that he had found all in order at the corral.
Pencroft harnessed the
onager.
The cart came out, the gate was reclosed, and the onager, led by Pencroft, advanced at a slow pace.
At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,--"Oh! the villains!" he exclaimed.
Every other day one of the settlers, driving the cart or mounted on an onager, went to look after the flock of musmons and goats and bring back the supply of milk required by Neb.
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