Examples of beast of burden

• Elephants.—They are expensive and delicate, but excellent beasts of burden, in rainy tropical countries. 

• Oxen require less tending than any other beasts of burden. 

• She could hear him behind her panting like a tired beast of burden. 

• The scarcity of four-footed beasts of burden is noticeable after the crowded Moorish thoroughfares. 

• To my astonishment, we met several trains of camels, and I learnt afterwards, that these animals were used as beasts of burden by the Kurds, as well as the Arabs.