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单词 dray horse
例句 dray horse
He was riding one dray horse and leading the others. 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
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
“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
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
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
He crossed under the very nose-bag of a stationed dray horse. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z
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
He leaned against a filing-case like a heavy dray horse which had come to a final stop. Whispering Wires
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dan Patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be. The Art of Public Speaking
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"
She had consulted her lord and they were willing to lend their big dray horse if they could all join our party. My Home in the Field of Honor
The burly labourers of the old Victorian times had followed that dray horse and all such living force producers, to extinction; the place of his costly muscles was taken by some dexterous machine. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
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
Similarly the horse-raiser will breed for race horses or dray horses as the case may be, and the system works with almost mechanical certainty. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
A dray horse is infinitely more useful to us than an Arab racer, but is he as beautiful? Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Don Jaime became a dealer in dray horses, buying more or less defective animals from gypsies in Valencia, praising their virtues to the skies, and reselling them as thoroughbreds. The Torrent Entre Naranjos
I do not know how it happened, but when the head-yards were swung, I found myself pulling at the fore-brace, like a dray horse. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
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.  The Uncommercial Traveller
The burly labourers of the Victorian times had followed the dray horse and all such living force producers, to extinction; the place of his costly muscles was taken by some dexterous machine. When the Sleeper Wakes
To the last stumble of its stumbling end this dray horse must abide by the mandates of the lesser truth that is the truth of life and that makes life possible to persist. John Barleycorn
The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dray horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter. Sister Carrie: a Novel
Heavy guns, instead of bales of goods, were dragged through the streets by dray horses, and muskets, cutlasses, and boarding pikes met the eye at every turn. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
In the market square there were endless rows of carts drawn up, and behind the carts, horses of every possible kind: racers, stud-horses, dray horses, cart-horses, posting-hacks, and simple peasants' nags. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
Driving and dray horses may step short with the front feet, or show a stilty action. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
But he was determined not to disappoint her; so he procured a dray horse and started for his destination on a wintry night, with rain falling in torrents. Beneath the Banner
And the difference between the first-class men and the poor ones is quite as great as that between fine dray horses and donkeys. Shop Management
Yes, I would rather brake on a night way- freight; be a country doctor where the roads are always muddy; a dray horse on a granite-paved street; anything for me before being a credit man! Tales of the Road
The Bank of England emerges; and the Monument with its bristling head of golden hair; the dray horses crossing London Bridge show grey and strawberry and iron-coloured. Jacob's Room
Do you know that the Unionists cut our dray horses' throats? Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
It passes Union Square; and here the hoofs of the dray horses seem to thunder in unison, recalling the tread of marching hosts—Hooray! Strictly business: more stories of the four million
Great dray horses were dragging forward batteries, the heavy guns sliding and slipping In the absence of such information as only Henri had been wont to bring it was best to provide for the worst. The Amazing Interlude
Neither the modern dray horse nor the modern race horse was then known. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
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