Even when Dona Berta delivered our burros de leña, (firewood was measured in burro loads) small-talk was kept to a minimum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calle Rico] Reference

The burro is the common carrier and, because of his sterling qualities, is a prime favorite in all of the pueblos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Sketches] Reference

The one good thing about staying here is the fact that I saw my first "burro" on the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part 15: El Camino de Santiago] Reference

They call it "burro con cristiano".    From Wordnik.com.  [burro con cristiano] Reference

But the word "burro" (bOOhoo) has become so widespread in this usage that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

He was looking along the arroyo for a strayed burro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

Juan, immobile of countenance, prodded on the burro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

A burro costs little and will live upon almost anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

"Well, our burro lays over Balaam's," Rayburn struck in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference

"And he hasn't even a burro," exclaimed Kit contemptuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

There's a statue of Brighty the burro in the Grand Canyon Lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

All he could obtain in the morning was a burro for the girl to ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

Just whoop up that burro of yours, Pablo, an 'let's be gettin' along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference

Zeb went to town once or twice, using a small burro for a saddle animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

The top-selling pinata is not of the traditional burro but of Bart Simpson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gringos Are Coming!] Reference

Janice tumbled off the burro and hastily mounted the steps to the platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

An old peasant pulling a burro next to a Saguaro cactus that looked plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

FRESHIE -- "No, sir, I merely remarked that you were a burro of information.".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

"Well, I am sure disappointed about that burro thing," said Davy regretfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

Sometimes he had a partner and a donkey, or burro, to carry tools and pack supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

But that was the beginning of the end for the burro in national parks and preserves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

And the poor burro is caught fast, with his leading rope held in a crotch of the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference

CAFFERTY: That's cheaper than if you are a burro and have to buy him like hay and stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2004] Reference

There is no more danger; and my pack burro might scrape off his load if I am not there to watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference

From the northeast side the summit of the mesa can be reached by a rough and tortuous burro trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

They went on slowly, for no amount of prodding would make the burro go faster than a funeral march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

Even then we talked of building a raft, and of loading the burro on it for a spin on the flood waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

He came to take back the burro they had hired from him for convenience in getting back and forth from Yuma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

Of course, if you want to enter the country from Mexico, you just climb on your burro, head north, no questions asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006] Reference

He lashed the ladder across the saddle so that it stuck out on both sides of the burro, who viewed the proceedings with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

He had come across from Diamond Creek by a trail over a thousand foot ridge, with a burro and a pack mule, a month before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

Bruin seemed to know that a feast awaited him as soon as he could clear a way to that frantic little burro with the big load.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference

The burro, meanwhile, had somehow managed to effect his release from the rope that had become fast in the crevice of the rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference

There was the little grass-plot where we pastured the burro, while we made a fifteen-mile walk up the bed of this narrow canyon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference