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“Phillips brought here a pair of horse-shoes belonging to a drayhorse of the firm of Truman,”
“He could no longer serve his country in Paris, or create it in Philadelphia; he did not have to work like a drayhorse; he was beyond his mistakes.”
“Six feet six towered this hair-thicketed ogre, with a chest like a drayhorse, and arms as thick as stovepipes.”
“Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!”
“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.”
“She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a drayhorse, and examines it to see whether 'tis a stone in the frog or a cast shoe he has come for.”
“Although there are many varieties of the horse genus -- scores of them, widely differing from each other -- they can all be easily recognised by these characteristic marks, from the "Suffolk Punch," the great London drayhorse, down to his diminutive little cousin the "Shetland Pony.”
“Although such a drayhorse-looking animal, he could throw the ground behind him amazingly; and the deep-holding clay in which he now found himself was admirably suited to his short, powerful legs and enormous stride.”
“Taglioni flogged herself like a drayhorse for six hours a day, mastering everything her father knew and experimenting with stunts from Italy, where men and women were hoicking themselves up on their toes, even their toe points, no mean feat in satin slippers faintly stiffened with rows of darning stitch.”
“We don't want the delicate, delectable wines of June, gossamer as some early aircraft fashioned from string and paper, blown by a breath and a breeze, nor do we yet require the full-blooded, two-fisted drayhorse-drawn wines of November.”
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