| 单词 | dray |
| 例句 | He swept up, ran errands, weighed bags, and lifted them onto the drays. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He ’elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “One small step above a dray, and when it rains she—” The man cut him off with a sharp gesture. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was riding one dray horse and leading the others. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Holmes called upon an Englewood resident named Cephas Humphrey, who owned his own team and dray and made a living transporting furniture, crates, and other large objects from place to place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The drone and clop of Mr. Cooper’s horse-drawn dray in the street outside used to awaken us in the dawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He came to Wentworth Street, which ran north and south and clearly served as Englewood’s main commercial street, its pavement clotted with horses, drays, and phaetons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Two men in leather aprons were unloading beer barrels down a ramp from the dray cart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Olmsted in particular felt the pressure but also felt hobbled by the persistent delays in installation of exhibits and the damage done by the repeated comings and goings of drays and freight cars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a wagon hauled by two old dray mares. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The gates were open, soldiers coming and going, drays rolling in empty and going out creaking and swaying under their loads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There is malaria and an imperilled dray horse. The Making Of A Lady is preposterous and proud of it 2012-12-15T00:05:00Z “I sort of felt like an old dray horse, clicking in,” Mr. Irwin said. Voicing a Robot -- and Schlepping It Around, Too 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z There is something essentially Liverpudlian about Matthew Street, in the centre of the markets and warehouses, where a dray horse with flowered bonnet stands by the Cavern entrance oblivious to the beatniks and the noise. The Beatles: a trigger for a musical revolution 2012-10-04T09:56:03Z It’s as if, instead of the Kentucky Derby, viewers were urged to enjoy the spectacle of thoroughbreds harnessed as dray horses. The Dishearteningly Safe 2017 Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z There is plenty of traffic on the roads – carts and drays as well as motor vehicles – but it all stops timidly when a London Bobby raises his hand. Colour footage of London in the 1920s allows us to be tourists in our own past 2013-05-22T17:12:42Z As dozens of ships sat at anchor miles off the coast, awaiting their chance to unload, dray operators like Mr. Jackson idled for hours on land before they could enter port gates. ‘No Jobs Available’: The Feast or Famine Careers of America’s Port Drivers. 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Part of that effort is the Port of Seattle’s ongoing installation of shore power, having charging infrastructure for dray trucks and working to accommodate sustainable aviation fuels at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The Times recommends: Ryan Calkins for Port of Seattle, Position 1 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1923, McAllister died and left his possessions, which included a little house on Franklin Street and a dray, a cart that he used to handle luggage, to Fuller. An unlikely friendship launches a 94-year tradition in NC 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Government authorities had refused to supply him with provisions or a bullock dray, so he was forced to stay with the very squatters whose conduct he was supposed to examine. Murdering Gully: settlers killed 35 in Aboriginal camp, and threw bodies into the water 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, he turned the Joint Special Operations Command into a dray horse. Special Ops Forces: How Elite Forces Became Military Muscle 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain. ‘No Jobs Available’: The Feast or Famine Careers of America’s Port Drivers. 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Construction is also more expensive than building on the mainland, since materials must be transported to the island by ferry and then to the building site by horse and dray. The Mansions of Mackinac Island 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z When he left school in 1913, he got a job as a delivery boy for tea company Brooke Bond & Co. and then worked as a dray boy with the Whitbread's Brewery. Jutland Jack: The life and death of a boy sailor - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z If you look at a dray move to port, 27 days on sea, do you really want a preplanned truck move on the other side of the ocean? What an LSP Should Look For When Buying a Transportation Management System 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z A dray is the collective word for a group of squirrels.It's the cup of tea. Quiz of the week's news 2014-04-25T00:15:41Z In good times, like last year, dray operators command whatever the market must pay to keep them rolling. ‘No Jobs Available’: The Feast or Famine Careers of America’s Port Drivers. 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Wool took from six to nine months reaching the coast by bullock dray, and the carriage of supplies to the station cost more than the goods themselves. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Dr. me for myself and team and dray for 4 days hauling for the Entertainment Commit. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z A team of eight will drag a dray with three tons of goods through the heaviest sand. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z His cab, delayed by a red newspaper cart, jammed in altercative contact with a dray full of brown barrels, paused in Cannon Street. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z In drays and delivery wagons they carried the dead away from the Iroquois theater ruins. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z But when they got a dray or a sloven, where could they go? The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z They have been driven several miles, and are scarcely able to crawl along, many of them having to be carried on drays, while others have died on the road. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z They are broken in to draw drays, or to trot with a buggy behind them; and the 'belle of Beltana' uses one for a hack. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z He crossed under the very nose-bag of a stationed dray horse. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Then Chief O'Neill and Coroner Traeger sent out men to stop drays and press them into service. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z In turning the horses for the journey back, Kenneth contrived to bring the dray close against the wall, so that from his high seat he was able to look over. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z It was exhibited by means of a wooden scaffold on wheels, differing probably but little in appearance from the drays or trollies which were utilised in later years. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Well, your chap come in 'bout eleven last night on an empty dray from Chester. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Neither does Macy's propose to clutter the sidewalk frontage of even the least important of its frontage streets—Thirty-fifth Street—by long lines of motor trucks or drays, receiving or discharging goods. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z Into these drays and wagons were piled the bodies. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z He laid the cask in the lobby, pocketed the money, and returned to the dray. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z The car was now speeding swiftly down Broadway, obstructed by no carriages, no carts, no tracks, no wagons, and no drays. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z When they reached the street, he stepped out smartly, making nothing of the crowd and bustle, the lumbering drays and over-hanging cranes through which they had to thread their way. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Professor Curie, who was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1905, was run over by a dray and killed instantly in Paris on the 19th of April 1906. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Numerous drays and strings of packed mules, carrying heavily laden panniers, raised clouds of dust, from which I was glad to escape on entering the narrow streets near the church. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z A heavy dray laden with beer was lumbering down the road. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z The party was hampered with an unsuitable outfit of drays, as well as some undesirable men, unused to the bush and out of accord with the objects of an exploring expedition. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The “Criterion” fared ill under its new name, and gained an unenviable notoriety on June 7th, 1834, being overturned in a collision with a dray in the Borough. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z "Whilst he from tree to tree, from spray to spray, Gets to the wood, and hides him in his dray." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z “You couldn’t bring him in in a dray,” answered Ben. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z Kenneth took the reins, and drove off, Pariset, who also had smeared face and hands, dangling his legs over the tail of the dray. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z They reached the Dawson River, and following a dray track, they came again in contact with civilisation at Connor and Fitz’s station, where they were hospitably received. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The bale of goods last unloaded from the railway train is transferred to the bullock dray, to begin its 'crawl' up the country, costing all its freight from England for every twenty miles. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Cowper uses the word dray with reference to the same animal: "Chined like a squirrel to his dray." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z But it was rumoured that a week or two later on, drays laden with furniture were seen to pass along the tracks on their way to Findlayson’s farm. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z I see there's a ladder or inclined plane or whatever they call it on the dray. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Supplies to this place were carried from Port Denison by bullock dray, but the first wool was shipped for Sydney from the new port, Burketown. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The wool is packed in bales, wrapped in canvass, and forwarded for exportation to Sydney, on drays drawn by oxen. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z And adds, "also applied to a carriage with low, heavy wheels, dragged heavily along, as a brewer's dray." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z It ended in Bob importing not only the parson in a dray, but a box of toys as big as a sea-chest, and only Bob himself could have told you all that was in it. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Even this was an undertaking as I could not, for some reason, get the dray of the night before; and had to hire several able-bodied men to carry it. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z When Cooktown was opened as a port for the diggings, the overland route was abandoned for dray traffic, and droving stock alone used it. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The freight which was landed at Shippingsport was carried by wagons and drays to Louisville, Lexington and other places in Kentucky and Indiana. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z Two horses or two mules, and one wagon, cart, or dray. 10th. How to Collect a Doctor Bill 2011-10-15T02:00:30.593Z The wool was pressed into bales, and loaded on huge bullock-waggons, which are in appearance something between an ordinary country wood-cart and a brewer’s dray. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z I had to hire a dray to carry it to my hotel; and then it could not be got up the stairs but had to spend the night downstairs. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The four-wheeled waggon has for a long time superseded the old bullock-killing dray, but the driver remains much the same. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z He knew that by the stars, for he had watched them many a hot night, lying on his back on a dray backed up some alley down near the East river, in New York. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Noise; Iron hoofs, iron wheels, iron din Of drays and trams and feet passing; Iron Beaten to a vast mad cacophony. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Communications were constantly kept up between the station and the railway, by means of waggons, or drays and saddle-horses. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z As on the first evening, Mr. Luttrell was busy in the store, but this time with the storekeeper, who was making out a list of things to be sent up in the drays from Melbourne. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z She felt so vividly happy that her breathlessness was hardly an annoyance as they dodged in front of the incoming drays of 14 another boat and waved aside the impeding newsboys crying the evening papers. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z The driver then came back again, He climbed into the heavy dray; And he tightened up the rein, Cracked his whip and drove away. The Adventures of Seumas Beg The Rocky Road to Dublin 2011-08-27T02:00:23.463Z I’d just like to——” But at that moment a dray horse tried to walk up his back, and Dan’s remarks were cut short. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z For many years Young's drays and horses were a familiar sight in Wandsworth, south-west London. Young's severs its links with brewing industry after 180 years 2011-08-09T18:03:09Z Let the dray be loaded," said Catherine; "the Cossacks are coming, and will pillage everything. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z By this time the wharf was reached, and the dray being loaded with their boxes and bundles, Mrs. Polwarth placed comfortably in the centre, the men walked beside the driver. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z As 1st, aye, day, bay, fay, gay, hay, pay, may, nay, say, ray, dray, bray, gray, fray, play, pray, array, assay, allay, display, portray, dismay, mislay. 2d. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z He had already an offer for a horse and dray. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z Its levee was crowded with drays and other vehicles and lined with steamers and barges. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z I stood on Twentieth Street near Broadway to-day, watching the teamsters unload the heavy drays at the back of a department store. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z I know so much of my own knowledge, but I happened to buy this old nag and the dray, which brings me in about a thousand a year at present. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z There are wide, bustling thoroughfares in Amsterdam, traversed by wagons and drays which could have no place in the city of gondolas and ancient palaces. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z My partner had bought a horse and a dray, and was taking hay into town every day, but he did not work much at home. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z Now no dray moves more readily to the thill than I do to the painter's chair. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z O, I wanted to ride on a hay-cart or dray or whatever it is. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z A dray will take them to the Atlantic’s pier, and put them with her freight, after which duty done, I will start at once for Kendal. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z I gave a glance up the street—still only drays and wagons, not a taxi in sight. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z One evening preparations were made for the whole family to start at daybreak next morning on the bullock dray. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z The men with the dray did not wish to sell any; but we insisted on having it at any price. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z The noise, the leaping motion of the cars and the perilous passage of drays made it as pleasant to her as a ride behind a running team on a corduroy road. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z And forever the dray, laden with cotton bales sometimes, and sometimes with boxes, or barrels, or hogsheads, took its drag-tailed way to the depots or to the wharf. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z As I crossed the street I sent a look both ways—not a taxi in sight, not a cop, only the whole thoroughfare tangled up with drays and delivery wagons. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Twelve bullocks pulled the dray, into which a lot of bed-clothes were piled. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z On our way back we halted for dinner—where some men with a dray load of stores,—on their way to one of the diggings, had also stopped for their mid-day meal. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z The brutal voices of drivers of cabs and drays assaulted her. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z "Yes, the drays come to the very decks of the boats." The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z "No fear," asserted Barcroft firmly—so emphatically that Entwistle almost relaxed his grip upon the steering wheel and narrowly avoided collision with a brewer's dray. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z He would now, said he, have to buy a horse and dray, and would also have to look out for a partner. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z The man was willing to take a light load of diggers’ “swags;” and, rolling up my tent and blankets, I put them upon his dray. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z For a Carpenter for making the same Gallaces and the dray. Canterbury 2011-02-17T03:00:20.527Z He couldn’t bat, he couldn’t field, and yet that shrimp to-day Is making laws in Congress, while his captain drives a dray. Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads 2011-02-13T03:00:19.390Z The discharged cargoes are piled upon the cars and in twenty minutes are added to the thousand shiploads, heaped upon the Levée; or, placed upon drays, are trundling to every part of the city. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z As I stood quite bewildered in the street, I saw the horse and dray coming past, and a stranger driving. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z Both were tied with their hands behind their backs, and, furthermore, fastened to the wheels of the dray. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z The ice on the Missouri river was breaking though drays and busses were still crossing. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Workmen in blouses, brewers' drays, laundresses' and butchers' carts passed along. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z When he stopped speaking and jumped down from the dray, I introduced myself to him, said I was mightily interested, and that I wanted to interview him. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z The footpaths are narrow, and the causeway is paved with rounded cobblestones so that the endless drays roar along it like so many breaking waves. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z I travelled in company with several others, who were going to the same place—to which we had “chartered” a horse and dray for carrying our “swags.” Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z One load of goods had gone to the depot, the dray had just left the door with another and there were just a few things left for the last load. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z It was a covered-in dray, and had been brought to in a little clearing of the scrubby undergrowth. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z He leaned against a filing-case like a heavy dray horse which had come to a final stop. Whispering Wires About eleven o'clock last night a young man was observed, while endeavouring to get out of the way of a hansom, to slip and fall under the wheels of a heavy two-horse dray. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z The day after I had formed this resolution, I saw a man with a horse and dray, just departing for Avoca. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z When we landed on the Missouri side and stepped out on the wharf there were, on all sides, mules, negroes, drays, drummers, porters, beggars, fakers, yelling, moving, jostling, huddling, crowding. Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings Mr. Noah T. Clarke and other leading citizens are riding around on a dray cart with great bells in their hands ringing them as hard as they can. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl I raised my eyes, and saw about half-a-mile off one of those drays drawn by buffaloes and laden with large blocks of white marble from the mountains for the use of sculptors. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I They generally send their drays every two or three months down to the nearest store, which may, of course, be fifty miles off, or even more. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War Now, in New York the artists are able to pourtray sound, because in New York a dray is not a dray at all; it is a great potent noise hauled by two or more horses. Last Words There they met again the stream of drays and carts; the horse went at a foot pace, and Victoria gazed at the black rows of houses with the fear of a lost one. A Bed of Roses I often saw drivers of drays and wagons pull up their horses and stop in the crowded street to stare at them as they made their way toward the theatre. Life on the Stage This difficulty was settled by the hailing of a dray, and instructing its driver to get the articles called for by the checks, and carry them, together with Glen's valise, to the hotel. Campmates A Story of the Plains Still he did help to carry some freight to the waiting trucks and drays, and for this he received fifty cents. The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils Neal sat at a window that looked out on the yard, and watched some men that were loading a huge dray. Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 At Mansion House she stopped for a moment to look at the turmoil: drays, motorbuses, cabs, cycles, entangled and threatening everywhere the little running black mites of humanity. A Bed of Roses They were held up by traffic as they crossed the Marylebone Road; drays, hansoms, bicycles passed—there was a stir of voices and wheels, somewhere in the park a band was playing. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary We made our way slowly along the grimy road, with its rows of monotonously uninteresting warehouses, and its endless drays filled with the city's merchandise. Windyridge Not a lame or poor animal was to be found among them, either in hack, dray, or country-produce cart. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The yard is thrown open, and three strong horses, such as you see in brewers’ drays, drag along what seems to be an immense clumsy black box. The Night Side of London Now and then too the rumble of a dray or the clatter of a hansom filtered into the dullness. A Bed of Roses Four thousand drays are constantly moving with merchandise of all kinds. Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 There was plenty going on at the brewery; and the reek, and the smell of grains, and the rattling of the plump dray horses at their mangers, were capital company. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The night was very still, and the constable must have heard if either cab, auto, carriage, or dray had passed in any direction whatsoever. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Here the hubs and fellers of these big drays and trucks are mussed up all the time with the fragments of your best people. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories “Go-ahead!” sung out somebody, as soon as our luggage was strapped behind; and away we drove, in full chase, with drays and cabs, towards the central parts of the city. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 My father has a great business 216 in the city, and thee could drive one of the big drays that go to the docks.” Prisoners of Conscience Engines clanging, trains moving, people waiting at street crossings—pedestrians, wagon drivers, street car drivers, drays of beer, trucks of coal, brick, stone, sand—a spectacle of new, raw, necessary life! The "Genius" Gen. Fremont ordered the Army of the West forward, but the so-called pursuit was very much like hunting a fox on a dray. The Struggle for Missouri Her white hood bobbed out of sight the next moment in School Street behind a great dray. The Life of Nancy I afterwards saw the horse I had traded for the mule in Sacramento, hitched to a dray. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 Out of these obstacles, therefore, arose the necessity for a number of men who could manage the drays, dorsals and crooks which were the more common and favored modes of conveyance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. With Mommuh taking in white folks' washing and the dray horse money coming in, Anderson Scales prospered in Madison where he started from zero scratch. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 We had two drays, and were well armed. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. They were now on the edge of the better-looking part of the town; it was still noisy and crowded, but noisy with fine carriages instead of drays, and crowded with well-dressed people. The Life of Nancy Matt had lost much time in talking to Andrew Dilks, and now, in order to reach Wall street the quicker, he hopped upon the tail-end of a dray that was moving rapidly toward the Battery. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone About this time the President appeared, and ascending a dray, spoke to the people. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital "What do you take me for, Nick, a dray horse?" he laughed. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida Down I fell, and nothing could have saved us, but the other savages had got the tarpaulin off, and were screaming with delight, plundering the drays, which called my enemies off. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. There were dolls for the girls, and whips for the boys, With wheelbarrows, horses and drays, And bureaus and trunks for Dolly's new clothes; All these in his pack he displays. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 And then the services of a bullock-driver and his team and dray had subsequently to be requisitioned to bring out our English boxes and baggage, including the cases of my father's books. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography They impressed all the carts and drays in the street, which were speedily laden with meal, flour, shoes, etc. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital A flock of sheep,—the dog baying, the driver blaspheming; a dray or two of hay; a few carts loaded with oranges. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants The dray put them down at about half a mile from Angel Court, while it was still broad daylight, and Robin was no longer tired. Little Meg's Children The London cabby appears to be fascinated with the glare and intricacy of the Strand, and mostly the drivers of brewers' drays and parcel delivery vans the same. Dickens' London He attempted, however, no other advance, remaining sturdily at the tail of his dray, hatless and in his shirt-sleeves, but with head erect and gray eyes set fixedly. The Side Of The Angels A Novel I remember that I went across one city on a dray, the only vehicle I could secure, in order to catch a train. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Ti-Trees The first thing shown us was the stone just as it came from the drays we had watched at work yesterday. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' At the latter a dray stood, and as Philo Gubb paused there, two men came from this door and laid a bale of hay on the dray, pushing it forward carefully. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Sixteen men at Hankow to carry baggage that one man and a one-horse dray would carry in New York. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Claude paused till the fern-tree was deposited in the dray, when the two men stared at each other across the intervening space. The Side Of The Angels A Novel They had just passed the dray and were coming to the outskirts of the little country town. People of Position Into these, lumps of stone were being run as fast as possible, and when filled they were taken down to the works, to be quickly replaced by empty return drays. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' It was odd that Joe Henry should send a dray the full thirty miles to Derlingport to get a load of wet hay, when he could get all the dry hay he wanted in Riverbank. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective The rush and clatter of drays and wagons united in one deep, deafening roar. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Harnessed to a light form of dray, the animal suggested business, so that Claude put on a business air, going forward with the assurance of one who has a right to be on the spot. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The doctor jerked the words out as he guided his horse past a big dray. People of Position Besides all this, there are plenty of well-fenced paddocks, containing 30,000 sheep, 200 bullocks, and some horses; also drays and carts, and other farming implements. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' He had three teams and three drays, and a small stable on Locust Street, on the alley corner. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective They turned into the main thoroughfare among the drays and ship-chandlers’ shops, out into the busy, unconcerned life of the city. The Web of the Golden Spider We pass a dray coming down from the Kaipara, laden with wool, and pull up, that Dandy Jack may have a private conversation with the driver of it. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Arm in arm went the blue coat and bullion, locked in white grass sleeves, along the busy quays, crowded with mule-carts and drays for stores or shipping. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life Confound the man, he's run into a dray! Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling The stable boy sat at the door, his chair tipped back, until a few minutes after eleven, when one of Joe Henry’s drays drove up with a load of baled hay. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective There was going to be a big demand for vehicles—wagons, carriages, drays—and he knew that some one would have to supply them. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel This dray is a huge waggon, built in a very strong and substantial style, and it is drawn by twelve span of bullocks. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand So far as danger from poisonous snakes is concerned you are in much more danger from the driver of a dray than from a snake. How Girls Can Help Their Country Compare, for instance, the head and limbs of a dray and race-horse, or of a greyhound and mastiff. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) When I awoke, startled and bewildered, the sounds of screaming children, roaring, jarring drays, and the clatter of falling iron filled the room. A Son of the Middle Border Carts, wagons, carriages, drays, wheelbarrows,—all were loaded. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field The broad, well-paved thoroughfare is crowded at certain times of the day with carriages, cabs, buggies, omnibuses, equestrians, express-carts, waggons, drays, and every species of vehicle. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand I sought the stable, and there, among the big dray horses, looking small and trim as a racer, was the lost horse, eating merrily on some good Minnesota timothy. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse He looked as strong as a navvy; and his shoulders reminded me of one of those men one sees in brewers’ drays. Not Like Other Girls We won’t ask Mrs. Drew that question, for she will be pretty sure to want a dozen things, and I refuse—positively—to be a dray horse. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Until auto trucks made their appearance the great drays of London and New York were drawn by Belgian horses. Birdseye Views of Far Lands They threaded their way through a maze of small ill-looking streets, slowly enough, for there were children all over the road; not infrequently a big dray forced them to proceed backwards. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Some of these beings were yoked to drays, on which they dragged heavy burdens. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans And then he got up and threw back his shoulders, as though he were adjusting them to some burden; and Mattie, as she looked up at him, thought again of the brewer’s dray. Not Like Other Girls Get out of here! for, as my name is Maciek, I wish you to millions, hundreds of hundreds of thousands of waggons of hogsheads, of drays of devils!!!” Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Having made myself somewhat presentable upon leaving the steerage of the steamer, my trunk on a dray, I proceeded to an unprepossessing hotel kept by a colored man on Kearny street. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Our elephant is an awkward animal, but compared with this mammoth, it is an Arabian steed to a coarse, ugly dray horse. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 War Paint took 13 minutes 39-1/5 seconds over the five miles; it would have been twenty seconds less, but a brewer's dray had blocked the road. Highways and Byways in Surrey The bee with his comb, The mouse at her dray, The grub in his tomb, While winter away; But the firefly and hedge-shrew and lobworm, I pray,5 How fare they? Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning No amount of training would make a Normandy dray horse that could compete with a Kentucky thoroughbred on the race course. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression And for dragging about barrels of beer and heavy cases a dray of iron, without wheels, was used. The History of London Intro. p. xlix: "They send their produce to the market . . . receiving supplies for home consumption on the return of their drays or carts from thence." Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Mr. Middleton then realized she had been the victim of a form of robbery far too common, where the scoundrels come with drays and carry off the whole household equipment, in the householder’s absence. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton I saw it was the same which had been delivered from the drays—the property of the lady. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West A week later a dray rumbled up to the door of my lodgings in Jermyn Street, and two stout men delivered from it a hogshead of the sherry you are now drinking. Merry-Garden and Other Stories We left Singapore at six o’clock in the morning in a four-horse dray. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines The drays, laden with furniture and beds, stood at the gate. Nine Little Goslings He saw the box loaded on a dray. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Here the occupant of the barouche pointed to a train of drays, loaded with barrels and boxes, that had just driven up, and halted in the rear of the carriage. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Lumbering drays no longer runneled with their broad iron tires the red-graveled flanks of the levee leading down to the wharf boats. Sundry Accounts Our tiffin baskets were six miles away in the dray, and sending after them was out of the question. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines How he had seen brewers' dray‑horses nearly six feet high at the shoulder—and one or two of them with a heavy cavalry mustache drooping from its upper lip. The Martian Once away from the depot, in the less congested streets in the direction of the medical college, the dray would go too fast for him to follow. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton It was working to a dray, and was almost worked to death. A Soldier in the Philippines By this time the drays were seen making their approach; and great was instantly the bustle in preparation for the reception of the "loading." Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Why, he drives a dray, you know, and he fell off when the horse was going fast, and the dray ran over him. 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother When the carriers reached the abandoned spot they found Strau's body beneath the dray. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 The hotel was near the station, and the noise of drays, carriages and street cars annoyed the English woman and she closed the windows. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Between the trees and the houses, on a coarse, rough pavement, among carts, drays, and carriages, walked the foot passengers quite frequently. Eric or, Under the Sea The second dray was not even so fortunate as the first; for all efforts of the double team were unavailing to pass the rubicon; and it settled in the mud mid-way between the banks. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter He looked patronizingly at the red-plush furniture which was being splendidly carried into the great house from Jordan's dray—an old friend of Carl's, which had often carried him banging through town. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life About July of this year, Fitzmaurice returned from Townsville with three horses and a light dray on which he had brought his wife and little girl. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 There, until far into the night, I saw hundreds of drays carrying cotton out of the presses and yards to the wharves, where it was fired. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Carts and drays were the stalls in the open street, and people were buying and selling at a great rate. Eric or, Under the Sea The Australian bullock dray with its bovine traction, we may remark, is without exception the most primitive means of conveyance that can either be devised or imagined. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter From the water front, where the boatloads of provisions docked, there was an endless procession of carts and drays carrying food to the scores of substations established throughout the city and the parks. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror When I arrived at the place with the teams, I saw the stains made by the chest of tea the blacks had pillaged off the dray on the day of the murder. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 It was the busiest part of the day, and the street was crowded with stages, drays, and other vehicles, making it difficult to cross. Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success All the way to Perpignan the roads were terrifically bad, being cut up into great dusty ruts by many great carts and drays hauling wine-pipes to the railway stations. The Automobilist Abroad A dray went past the end of his street rumbling hollowly, and the rumble died drearily away. The House with the Green Shutters From the water front, where the boatloads of provisions docked, there was an endless procession of carts and drays carrying food to the scores of substations established throughout the city and the parks. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The blacks had a short time before stuck up several drays, and carried the loading in their canoes across the river. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Without hesitation, he touched the policeman on the shoulder, beamed pleasantly, and said: “Pardon me, officer, but this car was forced over by that dray.” The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure My missus's been took bad down there by the dray, and if there ain't——" "Here! Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush Presently he came face to face with a man who, with hands in his pockets, was watching the unloading of a belated dray. The Diamond Coterie An endless, unbroken line of drays, beer-wagons, vehicles of every sort, moves up one side and down the other of the hurrying street cars which claim the centre roadway. Dorothy's Travels My boys said I would be stuck up when passing this spot, so I rode on the dray, carrying a loaded revolver. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 He had held his 8 hat in his hand while talking to the girl, and it must have touched her car at a point where the axle of the dray had rubbed. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure "What were you doing, coming from the west with a woman like that in the dray?" he asked. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush It is not, however, afraid either of horses or drays. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers They were subsequently filled in, and now are brewers' vaults, with only the high-vaulted roadway left open to form a passage for the drays and vans. The Strand District The Fascination of London I felt sorry for the joke, more particularly as for the remainder of the journey they would not leave the dray, or go for water, unless the black boy or I went with them. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 He was as big as a carthorse, as graceful as a dray and as meek as a missionary. At Good Old Siwash Accompanying the sound there was a perceptible tremor of the building, not more marked, however, than would be caused by the passage of a car or dray along the street. A Study of Recent Earthquakes “Here come the drays,” cried Rob, who had been looking out for them. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Wagons, drays,—everything that can be driven or rolled,—were loaded with the bales and taken a few squares back to burn on the commons. A Confederate Girl's Diary We eventually reached Lord's Table Mountain, where we had permission to remain, whilst I took the drays into Clermont to be repaired, and to obtain an additional supply of rations. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 And though a dozen brewers' drays Should rumble o'er the stones, Not all the noise that they can make Would rouse Young Lazybones. The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 We ran out, found a great crowd, a huge brewer's dray standing in the street, and a man run over. Robert Elsmere We will load the drays as fast as we can. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Charlie placed half of the trunks on the dray, leaving the rest for another trip; and we at last started off. A Confederate Girl's Diary In those days the range was in a primitive state, and coming down my mate capsized his dray. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Carabao drays are hauling fragrant cargoes of tobacco and Manila hemp, while over the gangplank runs a chain of men, gutting the warehouse of its merchandise. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia He was perfectly willing to sit there and study over again the advertising chromos on the walls and gaze out on the everlasting procession of rumbling drays. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Without a moment’s delay the drays were loaded. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The little maid goes over to the window and says, 'Goody, here comes Mr. Merriam the detective in a dray,' and then you go out to meet me, and that's the first act. Tutors' Lane I succeeded in buying 24 bullocks and two old drays, with three horses, for £400, agreeing to take the carrier and his wife to Cooktown, and paid a deposit. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 The horses under the heavy drays pulled their loads as if they were not heavy. Mary, Mary A few days later my mate arrived with the dray, which we at once unloaded, and then turned the horses out to feed and have a spell before working them again. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 Already the dray was as full as it could hold. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Perhaps there is a fight going on over the boundary-pegs of a claim which have been squashed by a heavy dray passing along, laden with stores from Castlemaine. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The man was speared while reading a book beneath the dray, and the woman was sewing, sitting against the wheel of the dray. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Clarence called a dray, and had all Flora's things conveyed to the house he was fitting up as his residence. Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants A brewer’s dray, as it leaves the yard, carries with it increase to the taxation, and hunger and nakedness for little children! Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Paul, having bid farewell to his family, accompanied by Harry and Reggy, who were going to see him a few miles on the way, rode after the drays, which had started at daybreak that morning. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers When Dr. Lively came in to announce the dray at the door he found his wife making for a trunk with a tin baking-pan in one hand and a cloth duster in the other. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 I then bought a new waggon for £60, and sold the two old drays to the blacksmith for £20. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 They were obliged to proceed slowly, so great was the throng of carts, wagons, drays, cabs, coaches, and carriages that encumbered the streets. Rollo in London The crowded trolley cars, the rushing, rattling lines of drays, the ugly, dirty, cheap-looking people hurrying past—it was all horrible! The Root of Evil Now and then Hector was persuaded to join them in the former duty, but he would never even attempt to learn to drive a dray. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers "They're worth a thousand times more than those old rocks and things you've loaded up the dray with," Mrs. Lively maintained. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Flour, sugar, tea, gunpowder, etc., etc., were heaped up on the ground, but there was no sign of the dray. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 If you wanted 159a carriage from here to the city, you would be lucky to escape for a sovereign, and a dray load of baggage drawn by a single horse would cost fifteen dollars. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent We drained together its honeyed wine, We cast the seeds away; I slipped and fell on the moony rinds, And you took me home on a dray! The Book of Humorous Verse Biddy and Betty clung to the hinder part of the dray, struggling in vain to get in. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers That afternoon saw the last dray load of boxes and furniture taken down to be loaded into the freight car. Chicken Little Jane Portions of the dray, stripped of all the iron work, were also found. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Making my way with difficulty through the crowds of people and among teams, drays and carriages, I at length emerged into the streets of New York. The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative In the steep roadway on the right a dray, loaded with barrels, creaked and jolted upward. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Bendigo cracked his whip, and his horses dashed forward at such a rate that it was a wonder the dray did not immediately capsize. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers There could be no mistaking it—neither could there be any reason why the driver of a Covent Garden dray should exhibit such an ensign. Men of Affairs He had brought in drays from Surbiton station to be repaired. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 At last, when the foreman had bullied his lusty understudies into a certain degree of sullen system, and the drays began to move away with their mysterious burdens, Dennis ventured to address him. The Flaw in the Sapphire As soon as all the wool was done up into bales, it was packed on the drays to be sent off to the port to be shipped. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Thinking that Bendigo might be useful in learning from any blacks they might meet if Paul’s drays had been seen, he asked whether he would go. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers He had a punch like a kick from a dray horse but when called upon to use his hands he preferred to rely upon his mascot to ensure success. Men of Affairs While I was assisting him, I had a Colt's revolver stolen off my dray, presumably by some of the road party who were cutting down the steep parts. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 The business streets are crowded with carts and drays. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The drays were low, like those of brewers, had no sides, but upright pins to keep in the bales, those at the corners being of iron. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Sometimes they drove one of the drays carrying provisions and stores, a task which was not so pleasant as galloping over the country. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Through the offside window Cranbourne caught a glimpse of the man in charge of the dray horses—a powerful person, high perched, his weight thrown bask against the tightened reins—his face purple with effort. Men of Affairs Shortly afterwards I noticed the smell of burning, and on looking round saw a dray with a load of wool well alight. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Harnessed to a dray or a wagon, it shuffles along, its big, flat feet seeming to walk all over the road. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Each dray carried about twenty bales, and was drawn by ten stout oxen. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Greetings were over by the time the first dray drew up at the door. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The front nearside wheel of the taxi was in a ditch, the wind screen broken and a large dray horse was trying to put its fore hoof through the buckled bonnet. Men of Affairs We then tipped the dray up, thinking the ropes had been burnt through, and that the bales of wool would roll off, when we could deal with them. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 A platform is made by rolling logs together, and after the plants have been uprooted and hacked to pieces they are hauled in drays to the platforms. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The bullocks were turned loose to pick up their food; and while Boyce went to bring them in, Wells lighted the fire, cooked their breakfast, and made the dray ready for starting. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The second dray now drove up, and Hector, a delicate-looking youth, was the first to get out, stretching himself and yawning as he did so. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Richard noticed the driver of a large dray was leaning against the railings pouring tea into the saucer of his cup. Men of Affairs After capsizing my dray three times on the road, and pulling down a fence in the town, I delivered the wool. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 All the Irish he knew worked on the section or drove drays. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Towards evening, a dray laden with stores was seen, its wheels and bullocks’ hoofs as it drew near the station stirring up the dry earth into clouds of dust. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The drays were not at all like the cumbersome vehicles which are known under that name in England. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers That man had he lived in Oliver’s time would have made a capital ironside, especially if mounted on one of those dray horses of his. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest I was despatched with a black boy, three horses and a dray, to bring them from Maryborough. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Three or four negroes followed with my baggage to the nearest store, where I got a two-horse car, or dray, just put upon duty for the day. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. At night, tarpaulins were let down at the sides and ends of the dray. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The drays having been sent on ahead, the captain and Harry, wishing the loved ones at Stratton good-bye, mounted their horses, and quickly overtook them. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Waggons and drays were put in requisition to convey the party and their goods through the forest, while the leader and his staff, with other gentlemen, rode on ahead to prepare for their reception. Janet McLaren The Faithful Nurse Their luggage filled the dray, but I managed to find room for the two women and the children. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 You see, a dray passed over my arm—that was all. The Lost Child From stations far up the country, drays are two months and more on the journey to the sea. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading “If I could manage to get hold of a well-built dogcart from London, I should have no objection to turn out a tandem,” he said, as he contemptuously surveyed the dray. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Charley White was engaged, I should have said, to my eldest girl, Mary; and just before they were to be married he started off in the dray to Sydney. Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler I was suffering from a severe attack of sandy blight in both eyes, so had to ride a horse which was tied to the bullock dray. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 "Then I must try what fortune can do for me without the brewer's dray." Orley Farm Den I got a dray an' hauled for fifteen cents a load from de Durham depo' to West Durham for fifteen years. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Besides the horses for the drays, four others were taken, in case the new arrivals should wish to ride. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Having bought a couple of horses at great cost, and a light waggon, or dray rather, I stowed therein the most indispensable portion of our goods and provisions. Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler The vehicle was a little larger than an ordinary handcart, and was mounted on wheels that had probably served their time on a Boston dray before commencing their travels in Secessiondom. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time It resounds with the dull rumble of cruising drays, which bear the names of well-known brands of groceries; it is faintly salted by an aroma of the docks. Pipefuls And the horses that went by our windows had mostly drays behind them, so they were not very tempting. Three Margarets The drays for the intended journey were packed, and the horses put to. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers We found when we moved on that we had not more men than we required for conducting the dray and driving the cattle. Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler The crowd of people on the sidewalks going and coming, and of carts, drays, wagons, and coaches in the street, was immense. Rollo on the Atlantic The writer inquired as to "who may find a dray or a cart or a hack driven by a colored man?" The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 The heavy dray horse is far from having the arrangement necessary for the purposes of the turf, while the thorough-bred is as ill adapted for the dray. The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals The tent which had been stowed at the station had been put up for the accommodation of the ladies, while the rest of the party slept either in or under the drays. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers But, I say, if you wanted to go into the dray business, there's a first-class opening now. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen They had stopped at the crossing of a street; a heavy dray was lumbering slowly past them. Georgina's Reasons The work of loading them on the drays was performed by prisoners, and he managed to be in the vicinity as often as possible to help. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive Nothing can stay the placing of his wares— Not bus, nor cab, nor dray! Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses The dray is very like ours, and the rider like Paul. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The drays ran over the pavement with muffled sounds; winter had set in with a heavy snow-storm. Children of the Tenements Through coaches, drays, choked turnpikes, and a whirl Of wheels, and roar of voices, and confusion, Here taverns wooing to a pint of “purl,” There mails fast flying off; like a delusion. Newton Forster The Merchant Service I said, expecting to see a dray come along. To The West They possessed guns, parting gifts from Mr Prentiss; but, not being required as a means of defence or offence, they had been left in the dray. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia The huge drays were each dragged by twelve bullocks, the two polers and leaders being steady old stagers, as were those immediately in front of the polers. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The air quivers, the gutters smoke, the buildings tremble as the heavy drays pass and collide at the corners of the narrow streets. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) What will—” At this moment there was a loud shout of “Hoy! hoy!” from the lips of a carter who was coming with a brewer’s dray out of the inn-yard. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found I'm just a wooden horsy, and I work hard all the day At hauling blocks and dollies in my little painted dray. A Jolly Jingle-Book A dray had just arrived from the west, and Green made his appearance with the letter-bag in hand. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia “Harry!” he exclaimed, “run and tell Sandy to put the horses in all the drays, and bring them down here.” The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Here the roar of a passing dray drowned his utterance. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton In this instance a dray was backed up to the curbstone, with paper. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Next the logs are dragged out to the dray roads, Fig. Handwork in Wood In vain Larry and the men with the dray shouted and ran after him with their guns. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia Three drays, each drawn by four horses, to carry the ladies and children, were covered over and fitted up internally as comfortably as circumstances would allow. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Mr. Lower mentions that in recent times in Sussex "Swallow" was a common name in stables, even for heavy dray horses. Highways and Byways in Sussex For a little he stood stock-still on the pavement watching the throng of people and the perpetual buses and drays and the jingling hansoms picking their way through it all. The Lunatic at Large If the log is very heavy, one end is put on a dray. Handwork in Wood There was the bullock-driver in charge, with his chum, a newly hired hand, and Sam Green, who walked or sat on the dray; while the two Gilpins rode alongside on horses, provided by Mr Prentiss. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia “I think I see something very like a dray, with two horsemen near it,” said Harry. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Society men, clubmen, millionaires, longshoremen and negroes took up the work, loading the bodies on drays and conveying them to barges. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado He had driven one of his three drays himself, standing sturdily in the front of the red-painted wooden two-horse wagon as it rattled up and down the main business thoroughfare of Winnebago. Gigolo None: yet half the column commanders have been content to parade the country as escort to drays packed with merchandise. On the Heels of De Wet Huge drays laden with bales of wool were slowly moving along the quay towards the ships taking in cargo, while porters, and carts, with ever-moving cranes overhead, were rapidly unloading other vessels of miscellaneous commodities. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia I’m sure it is a dray, with a man on horseback. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Jose Lawton, the oldest and best baker in the town this day received a dray load of Spencer & McKay's Cream Ale. Watch Yourself Go By "You are to consider, miss," said the brewer's daughter, "that my papa keeps a coach."—"Very true, miss," said the other, "and you are to consider that he likewise keeps a dray." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings There was a tramcar in his immediate rear, a cab in front of him, an outside-car and a bicycle on his right hand, and a dray laden with barrels on his left. Here are Ladies As riding on, in advance of the dray, they reached the door, a stout, hearty-looking old gentleman came out to meet them, and welcomed them in the most cordial manner. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia He expected the drays soon to arrive with the various stores and provisions he had purchased. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Jack Beckley was haled to court on a dray, too oblivious of everything to answer any charge. Watch Yourself Go By I could scarcely believe my eyes, but there were dolls and donkeys and drays and cars and croquet coming up in long, straight rows, and ever so many other things beside. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories First the teamster teeters and cajoles the box to the edge of the dray, then, with a sudden push, he throws it off down the shoot, from which it disappears with a booming sound. Journeys to Bagdad Then as she stood watching, and from away over, there came a rumble, deep and cavernous, as if a gargantuan dray were being driven over subterranean roads. The Beach of Dreams The other drays, laden with stores, were to be drawn by oxen. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The shops grew smaller and dingier; drays passed lumbering by and street cars jarred along beside them, but vehicles like their own were noticeably lacking. While Caroline Was Growing Express and dray horses, the very ones that had once scurried into side streets at sound of his hoofs, now insolently crowded him to the curb. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Be that as it may, all day long great drays 20go by with Earls of Leicester on their lofty seats, prevailing on their horses with stout, Elizabethan language. Journeys to Bagdad He drove a dray about town till he was twenty, and with money he'd saved he set up for himself in business. Dixie Hart It would be necessary, therefore, to dispatch the drays some hundreds of miles to obtain flour, and this must be done as soon as possible, before the regular rainy season should set in. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Milly inquired as they crossed the muddy street, dodging the procession of drays. One Woman's Life Many years ago, in New Zealand, I used sometimes to accompany a dray and team of bullocks who would have to be turned loose at night that they might feed. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals It was near quitting time yesterday that a dray was discharging cases down a shoot. Journeys to Bagdad Then he paid the dray driver and we fell to work. Branded “I wish the drays would come,” the captain said to his brother. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers She was silent, as she drove among the drays and omnibuses, out into the open street. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain The captain that walks the quarter-deck Is the monarch of the sea; But every day, when I'm on my dray, I'm as big a monarch as he. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Dorgan's dray would make a cheerful noise if it was the last sound on earth. Homeburg Memories Owing to the fire team colliding with a dray owned by Sheppard & Co. some minutes of delay occurred. The Cow Puncher As the drays had not arrived, Reggy offered to set off to hurry them on. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The crowd parted, and Ruth, looking up, saw a big horse, attached to a dray, dashing along one of the walks of Battery Park, having evidently come from one of the steamship piers nearby. The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas As Gregory Hilliard, I don't mind carrying a parcel or helping to load a dray; but I should not like, as Gregory Hartley, to be known to be doing that sort of thing. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman You could put the entire equipment in a dray. Homeburg Memories Hank, most ministers don't ride around the country on a moving dray. Green Valley The whole country around them seemed flooded, with the exception of the hill to which the drays had gone. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Every wagon and dray was pressed into service. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis After they had passed, the streets were clogged with carts and drays and wagons of all sorts, for the citizens were moving to places of safety. A Certain Rich Man At an equal distance from the east comes another cloud of dust and an even more terrible uproar, Clay Billings's dray having more loose spokes than Bill Dorgan's. Homeburg Memories And anyhow, things get as lonesome sometimes for a minister in the pulpit as the roads get for a dray driver and I'd appreciate it to have a friend like you along. Green Valley We ought to be thankful that the lives of all the family have been saved, and three drays full of property. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers The upper part of Main Street was choked with pillagers—men with drays, some with bags, some rolling their stolen barrels painfully up the hills. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis The lad, having bestowed the dishes, lent willing aid in loading the dray, while Mr. Quigg superintended operations. Ralph Granger's Fortunes The brewer's dray has been pulled across the road, and behind it are embattled a formidable confederation of vested interests. Liberalism and the Social Problem Nanny finally jumped on the trunks, snapped them shut, locked them and watched the expressman carry them down and out into his waiting dray. Green Valley The most difficult part of their journey was surmounting the range, when even Mrs Berrington preferred climbing up on foot to remaining in the dray. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Some, however, stayed to bring a kind of dray with them, and then, when these also had started, he could see Harry Scott moving slowly off in the waggon towards the town. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel The boatswain had sundry talks with sundry clerks and some drays were loaded. Ralph Granger's Fortunes When we came to an exceptionally difficult and steep pull, the drays were taken over one at a time with three horses yoked, and all hands helping them. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 "If you will pay me and let your clerk follow with a dray, I would return home immediately and have the bedstead taken down and sent to you." The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution Some bad boys, they see pa couldn't take care of the dray and they stole some things offn it. Honey-Sweet They led him away, after the little procession which had gone on with the dray and its load, but he neither resisted, nor indeed spoke at all. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel The street cars, the drays, the carriages, and the other intermingling vehicles puzzled his senses and deafened his ears. Ralph Granger's Fortunes For a day's pig-hunting on the plains a party of men on strong and fast horses, with a few kangaroo dogs and a bullock dray in attendance, formed the hunting party. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 The clerk did as he was requested, and soon after returned with the intelligence that the dray was ready. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution We have ponderous, heavy horses to-day; but they can not do as much work before the plow or dray as those of the eighteenth century. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside An hour later, the dray, now more carefully arranged and covered, brought its load to the door of the house which had been so lately prepared for the bride's coming home. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel He followed a line of trucks and drays towards the business part of the city, and presently dropped into a cheap eating house for breakfast. Ralph Granger's Fortunes I mounted again, and after getting the drays safely over, I rode on to the station. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Hambleton went on past the curving street-car tracks, dodged a loaded dray emerging from the dock, and threaded his way under the shed. The Stolen Singer The clatter of drays "down town" was like music in his ears, the dusty streets of the residential section were fair to his eyes for old time's sake. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe She glared at the city around her, at its tall, hard unfriendly walls, the jangling trolleys down below, the trucks and drays and the crowds rushing by her. His Second Wife The latter part of their journey was accomplished under difficulties, for the street was packed with drays and heavy vehicles. The Black Box The bridges and roads over the marshes proved quite satisfactory, and it was a real delight to me when the first teams of wool drays passed over safely. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 From the river to the inclosure they were hauled on drays in wooden tanks 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep, half a dozen at once. New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century Me, haply fleeing from his horse, He greets with language somewhat coarse, To which there’s no replying; A brewer’s dray comes down that way, And simply sends me flying! Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses On all hands were the waggons and drays unloading by tents not yet fully erected. In the Roaring Fifties Immense pools of mud and water were seen everywhere; and it was a favorite amusement of the boys to watch the attempt of a loaded dray to pass through those beds of muck. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell We purchased a strong one-horse dray which we loaded with about 10 cwt. of provisions, in the form of flour, tea, sugar, salt, ship biscuits, a small quantity of spirits for medicinal use and tobacco. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 And yet—— The clang of the trolleys, the rumble of the drays, the rushing of the people! The River and I He works hard every day in the dray business. Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry There had been a demand for drays, I remember, and on this day when our silks came in, I was able to procure but one. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Cap'n Sproul gazed for a time on this unwieldy passenger, surveying the arrival of various drays laden with tackle, shovels, mysterious boxes, and baled hay, and then took Hiram aside, deep discontent wrinkling his forehead. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Legge's horse and mine therefore were destined for the dray, tandem fashion, and upon trial they pulled splendidly. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 And the dray came so slowly that I was asleep before it had got safely out of hearing. Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Miss Ruston barely took time for luncheon, and by the time the dray containing her modest supply of household goods was at her door she was ready for work. Mrs. Red Pepper As I was telling, the dray was engaged about the second trip. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 She heard, in her workroom, the dull roar of the angry thousands through whose midst the insolent squatters drove in triumphal procession, as if inciting to lawlessness, with dragoon-guarded, police-protected drays of blackleg wool. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel The recent rain had swollen the stream, and either obliterated or washed away the rough dray track, which even at its best was not suited for the passage of a horse team. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Our party increased in number by the way, especially after we met with a dray carrying kegs of rum. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Dan Patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be. The Art of Public Speaking This last large silk-trunk was left behind perforce; pile it how one might, there had been no safe room for it on the already overloaded dray. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 If the traveller be accompanied by a dray, the tarpauling, is drawn round, and he sleeps beneath it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 We washed and bound his wound as well as we could and tied him to a bush of snow grass to await the dray. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 There is a licensed hotel, good stores and various tradesmen, likewise dray roads from Maneroo and Port Philip. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned They said they did not remember any explorers who had larger animals than horses and, strange to say, none who had drays. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills At sight of the dray he stopped suddenly, and then went swiftly forward to the cart, and said to Jack, "Goin' to take her out in that?" The Cromptons A dray, with eight, ten, or twelve bullocks in it, according, to load, will travel thirty miles a-day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Legge had already arrived, and we all sat down to take some food while awaiting the arrival of the dray. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Next morning he yoked his bullocks, put all his guests into the dray, and started for Dandenong. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Shortly afterwards Jemmy had a long conversation with them during which they informed him they had seen a party of explorers to the eastward, but that they had never seen any with camels or drays. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills It is our supremacy in Bloodstock alone that makes possible the governess car, the milk van, the brewer's dray, the very plough itself. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 The dray was put away in the cupboard, but he took the angel to bed with him. The Brownies and Other Tales It was two miles to the top, but such a two miles to take a horse dray over. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 The first party Davy met had a dray and bullocks. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Everything was still on the streets except the clatter of the milk carts, and the early drays and huckster wagons. The Fatal Glove Mr. Jarvis had been standing outside, superintending the unloading of several dray loads of American bacon. The Lighted Way Empty drays were driving at a trot down the street under his windows, and the busy Monday was again alive, on that dingy autumn morning. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel On the return journey we had as much company as when we came, and the road was even worse, but the dray being almost empty we experienced less difficulty in proceeding. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 After a while some policemen in plain clothes came along and examined the dray. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Thus it happened that close behind the dray conveying the petrol came a long procession, the sound of whose coming announced it from afar. Round the World in Seven Days They all crowded up around the dray and put the pennies in the box. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Instead of lumbering drays, many carriages; instead of bustle, leisure; instead of commercial haste, languid strolling along Pennsylvania Avenue. Children of the Market Place When the dray was loaded and covered over with a large waterproof tarpaulin, and our two fine horses yoked thereto, it looked a very business-like turn-out. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 After the rum, the dray, and the four horses were seized by the police. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned It looked out on a narrow street, through which drays rattled noisily, and occasional passengers picked their way along its muddy crossings. Inez A Tale of the Alamo Though very warm the walk is agreeable, and out of a cloud of dust before them, they soon descry a dray or two, each drawn by a long line of bullocks. A Source Book of Australian History In this condition he was sent to Adams' Express office in a dray, and thence by overland express to Philadelphia. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. We decided to take the drays over separately, yoking all four horses to each in turn, tandem fashion, by means of ropes with which we were well provided. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 They found fourteen kegs of rum in it, which they seized, together with four horses and the dray. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The vehicle was a little larger than an ordinary hand-cart, and was mounted on wheels that had probably served their time on a Boston dray before commencing their travels in Secessiondom. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The roads were crowded with travellers, carriages, gigs, drays, carts, and wheelbarrows; mixed up in one confused assemblage might be seen magistrates, lawyers, physicians, clerks, tradesmen, and labourers. A Source Book of Australian History A big dray put in a note of thunder and a clank of chains. The Inheritors We did not remove the harness from the horses, which were tied to the dray without any food for the night. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 It was afterwards remembered that the deck of the vessel was encumbered with cargo of various kinds, including a bullock dray, and that the deck hamper would unfit her to encounter bad weather. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Barden loaded them on a dray, and got on it, with his pants in his boots, and went up to deliver them himself. Peck's Compendium of Fun Masters were seen driving their own drays; and ladies of respectability and ample means were obliged to cook the family dinner. A Source Book of Australian History There were also enormous drays, which looked, as our frail bark passed under their bows, like huge Atlantic liners. The Princess Passes A messenger was despatched to the Ashburton in hope of finding a doctor, but in vain, and the lad was sent to Christchurch, 150 miles, in a covered dray. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Poor Mr. Spaull, he was ordained about three years after Mark came to Slowbridge, and a week later he was run over by a brewer's dray and killed. The Altar Steps He jumped off the dray, threw the two barrels of apples on, and drove off, saying he didn’t care a continental dam if the minister eat dried apples all winter. Peck's Compendium of Fun Poor Macnamee had in a great measure recovered, but for some days he was sullen and silent; the sight of the drays gave him uncommon satisfaction. A Source Book of Australian History At an early hour in the morning carriages and drays began to assemble on the levee, and all the noise and bustle of landing passengers, baggage and freight, commenced. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue On arriving at Dunedin we found that Legge had already disposed of the dray satisfactorily, and Smith finding a purchaser for his horse he parted with him, thus placing us all in funds. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 A hundred times he had to step quickly to avoid hand truck, or dray, or laden wagon. Half Portions For a moment Geary lost sight of him amid a group of men who were hoisting a piano upon a dray. Vandover and the Brute They seem as numerous where the rush of drays is thickest as in the open breathing-places where the fountains play. Roof and Meadow The thoroughfare each moment grew more tumultuous to his ears, with trolley cars and taxis, motor busses, trucks and drays. His Family A rendezvous was fixed upon where we were to meet at daybreak, a bullock dray having been sent on the previous night. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 And across the dray from him on a red-plush sofa is Alonzo Price singing 'My Wild Irish Rose' in a very noisy tenor. Somewhere in Red Gap The Strand was a roaring stream of omnibuses and drays, carriages were beginning to roll along the drives leading to Rotten Row, and all London was in the streets. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 We waited ten minutes on a broiling-hot corner and then, when we did get another car, it got blocked behind ten thousand drays and we had to foot it about eleven miles! The Adventure Club Afloat How they are perpetually sinking into prodigious ruts, along which the ponderous drays are forced to dance on one wheel in a paroxysm of agony and critical equipoise! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 I never could get over the idea while looking at a dray in motion, that the horse was endeavoring to walk through an arched gateway and taking it along with him. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Well, sir, I could have basted that fool Bush Jones with one of his own dray stakes. Somewhere in Red Gap The arms exhibit a shield with a pair of compasses, an axe, and a dray, or truck, with goats for supporters. Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 I was married then and had all my household goods with me, so he got a dray and carried me out to his house. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 He wanted to be among rough, honest people, to get down where the big drays bumped over stone paving blocks and the men wore corduroy trowsers and kept their shirts open at the neck. Youth and the Bright Medusa Or, to the lash of fate thy soul resigning, Wear a red cap and drive a brewer's dray? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 For several months he drove a dray in St. Louis, Missouri; then removed to Carrollton, Illinois, and studied law. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Found that Mr. Hodgkinson and Mr. Middleton had that morning started for the dray with the camels with a supply of water. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia Truck horses, great as elephants, magnificently harnessed with brass ornaments, drew drays, big enough to carry a small house, to the loading platform where they were quickly laden and sent away. The Rules of the Game Oily fed 'em dray loads of eloquence, but it didn't seem to be real fillin'. Pardners XXX on the beer-barrel: XXX on the brewer's dray: XXX on the door of the gin-shop: XXX on the side of the bottle. The Abominations of Modern Society His wife, big with child, coming about a fortnight before his death to see him in Newgate, was run over by a dray and killed upon the spot. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences At four and a half miles got to Appambarra, near old camp at the dray crossing. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia Then he set the great muscles of his broad back slowly, like a dray horse testing the load before putting forth his strength. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" The drays sunk to the axles, the whole of the soil in our way having become so liquid that it rolled in waves around the struggling bullocks. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 We no more need a dray full of ghosts than a dray full of jumping furniture. The Art of the Moving Picture It is a common sight when travelling in Australia, to meet a dray drawn by bullocks, laden with furniture, and white people. Far Off Was unable to get dray ready early enough to go a stage, but brought it in here in the afternoon, ready for an early start tomorrow morning. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia Through coaches, drays, choked turnpikes, and a whirl Of wheels, and roar of voices, and confusion, Here taverns wooing to a pint of 'purl,' There mails fast flying off, like a delusion. Newton Forster These men, who were at a short distance from the encampment collecting the sheep, were presently seen running with great speed towards the dray, pursued by a body of blacks throwing spears after them. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 We next yoked the bullocks to the empty drays and cart on the opposite side, and all were soon brought safely through the river. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 |
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