drayman
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draymen
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At the age of 19, Vaselli enlisted in the army for one single purpose: to save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court.
From Time Magazine Archive
To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip?
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes they let him ride with the drayman.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Below the ranks of skilled craftsmen, were the carters, draymen, and laborers who kept urban commerce moving by land, as throngs of sailors did by sea.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars."
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile a horse-company, consisting of many draymen, hostlers, and butcher-boys, was to meet at Lightwood's Alley and then scour the streets to prevent the whites from assembling.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various
Whether or no the draymen of Barclay and Perkins have degenerated, the Commune which includes Szekeres has not degenerated.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It is not the tyrants that are lacking, but the draymen.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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