dray horse

Historical Examples

• Look at the race and dray-horse, or at the greyhound and mastiff.

  On the Origin of Species

  Charles Darwin

• The dray-horse of these countries has a large share of Flemish blood in him.

  The Stock-Feeder's Manual

  Charles Alexander Cameron

• Awakened by the oath, he just got out of the way of a huge Flemish dray-horse dragging a brewer's cart.

  Dreamers of the Ghetto

  I. Zangwill

• It was as marvellous as though a man should walk down the street carrying a dray-horse on his back.

  Cyrus Hall McCormick

  Herbert Newton Casson

• His lady, who has to work all day like a dray-horse and scold the servants besides, to get things into order, loses her temper.

  The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

  Anthony Trollope