drayhorse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Puddle A very old drayhorse splashed through a puddle on a Boston street.
From Time Magazine Archive
While her competence as a poet equips her to understand the genius of Keats, it also seduces her to scorn prose as a drayhorse that must shamble in the path of the Winged One.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phillips brought here a pair of horse-shoes belonging to a drayhorse of the firm of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co., to astonish the Moors by their size, who are great connoisseurs of horse-flesh.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by Richardson, James
Pegasus were more truly figured as a drayhorse than a steed with wings; he jogs along trot-trot, and occasionally he stands at an obstinate pause.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
Six feet six towered this hair-thicketed ogre, with a chest like a drayhorse, and arms as thick as stovepipes.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Wellman, Manly Wade
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