Citations:beast of burden


 * 1832, Alfred Tennyson, "The Palace of Art", verses 149-150:
 * The people here, a beast of burden slow, / Toil'd onward, prick'd with goads and stings;


 * 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Cheylard And Luc
 * Three days had passed, we had shared some misadventures, and my heart was still as cold as a potato towards my beast of burden.


 * 1887, Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, Les Misérables (1862), Volume 4, Book Fourth, Chapter 2:
 * You are a beast of burden in the team of hell!


 * 1914, The New Student's Reference Work, F. E. Compton and Company, page 2110, Yak:
 * The yak has been domesticated for centuries in Tibet, and is extensively used as a beast of burden.


 * 1829, Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Chapter LXXVII:
 * Everything had to be borne by beasts of burden over rugged and broken paths of mountains and through dangerous defiles exposed to the attacks and plunderings of the Moors.


 * 1919, L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz, Chapter 8:
 * ... so that they will become beasts of burden forever after and obey only the will of their two-legged masters.