More amazing than the burros was the fact that pedestrians were using an overhead walkway to cross the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circling Lake Chapala] Reference

It would make me hungry but I just finished sharing 1/4 kilo of Borrego, freshly made flour tortillas and all the condiments for our own "burros".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brunch en Casa] Reference

"burros," frequent these great wastes, cropping the vegetation that grows on the oases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The banana bunches get to the railroad cars on burros.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

"How about a couple of burros?" interrupted the listener.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

They also have a nasty habit of trying to dig burros in sofas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2003] Reference

And gathering up the reins, he drove on, followed by the cavalcade of burros.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

There were half a dozen cows, as many horses, some burros, and a few chickens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference

As with wild horses, there's a dispute about exactly how many burros are left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

We owe the unadopted wild horses and burros in holding good care and treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salazar Seeks Congressional Support for Sustainable National Program to Manage Iconic Wild Horses] Reference

Glory told me it's the only thing green on the desert that the burros won't eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"Then let's catch enough burros to lug us all," suggested the resourceful Susie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

"But the other day we engaged some Mexicans and burros, so our party is now about eight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

Everything needed for the mine is carried down packed upon the backs of sure-footed burros.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Often one or two small inclosures used for burros or horses occur near these sheep corrals.    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

"But won't it be risky to go out there in the darkness to bring in the ponies and burros?" asked Joe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

And that's the only reason she takes the burros out of the park - not for adoption, which is BLM policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

Through the cañons he goes, and over the mountains, either on horseback or driving the burros before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

When she heard about what was about to happen to the Death Valley burros in 94, she approached NPS with a plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

Their inclosure was simply to secure them against the depredations of stray burros, so numerous about the village.    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 were not much bigger than burros, but he had this wagon and he was a farmer out near a place called Short Pump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Broadus Mitchell, August 14 and 15, 1977. Interview B-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Those sheds are over 60 years old, the post office used to stable their burros in them; and the only storage I have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

There were men on foot, men on horses, mules, and burros, men in wagons, buckboards, and buggies, and men in automobiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

There's also a dispute over access to water, which was closed off when the park service took over part of the burros 'range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

There were horsemen, hurried persons on foot, men in carriages and autos, twenty-horse freight teams, and men on tiny burros.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

It is necessary to know the location of the few scattered springs, and to make one of the burros useful in carrying water kegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

To the park service, burros were not free-roaming but non-native, which meant that they had to go (see article on wild horses).    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

This is brought upon the backs of burros from the distant mountains, where the few remaining trees give work to charcoal burners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

The burros were understandably unhappy with their lots in life and seemed to ponder suicide with every hairpin turn up the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane McGivney: Top Chef : Hung-Bot Grows a Heart] Reference

From 1987 to 1994, the park service shot 400 burros in Death Valley alone - just one of various burro sites all over the desert West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanne Stillman: The Last Burros of the Mojave Desert: A Christmas Story that Needs A Happy Ending] Reference

The burros were already packed, and the goat with her kids, all hobbled, were placed in the sled, and the cavalcade started on its way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference

Here bronchos, mules and burros are fitted with massive shoes by this frontier Vulcan and sent rejoicing upon their winding and rocky ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

SCHIAVONE: During the next two months, the federal government will be rounding up more man 2,000 wild horses and burros in northern Nevada.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009] Reference

It was refreshing to read Andrew Murr's article "A New Range War" on the wild horses and burros, an important issue that could have easily gone unreported.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference