truck-horse

There was a crashing in the underbrush; then a magnificent black truck-horse broke across the road in front of us and was gone.

THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010

And me loaded down with conditions a truck-horse couldn't haul!

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

You see, while most of my school training was in advanced physics and mathematics, I worked my way through by computing and designing, and I've done a lot of truck-horse labor of various kinds besides.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

There was a crashing in the underbrush; then a magnificent black truck-horse broke across the road in front of us and was gone.

The Dream of Debs 1914

A stocky, bow-legged son of Kosciuszko, built close to the ground, and with a neck on him like a truck-horse, as I remembered Anton.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

There are times when they look upon me as a sort of truck-horse.

Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Courtney, coming in a little late, -- in fact, Miss Margaret Slattery already had removed the soup plates and was beginning to wonder audibly whether a certain guy thought she was a truck-horse or something like that, -- found the editor of the Sun anticipating by at least twelve hours the forthcoming issue of his paper.

Quill's Window George Barr McCutcheon 1897

There was a crashing in the underbrush; then a magnificent black truck-horse broke across the road in front of us and was gone.

The Strength of the Strong Jack London 1896

What a ridiculous exhibition a great truck-horse would make on the race-track; yet this is no more incongruous than the popular idea that law, medicine, and theology are the only desirable professions.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

There are many strange stories told of the truck-horse.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855