donkey-like

Updated: May 25, 2025

And peering forward through the folds of the curtains, she beheld, amidst a slowly-advancing crowd, a meanly clad, simple looking country youth wearing a ragged broad-brim, and mounted on an unsightly, donkey-like beast, whose long tail and mane were stuck full of briers, and whose hair, lying in every direction, seemed besmeared with mange and dirt; all combining to give both horse and rider a most ungainly and poverty-struck appearance.

D. P. Thompson - The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter : A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont