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  • This I have known so to surprize my small Beer Customers, that they have asked the Drayman what was the matter: He to act in his Master's Interest tells them a Lye, and says it is the goodness of the Malt that causes that sweetish mawkish taste, and then would brag at Home how cleverly he came off.

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Abraham, Prince, and "Dan the Drayman," the latter a man of seventy, -- and their heads placed on poles at the four corners of the town.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

  • The ostensible Stroke Oar of this Domestic Combination was a Graduate of one of those Towns in which the Occidental Hotel faces the Depot and all Trains are met by a Popular Drayman wearing a Black Sweater.

    Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

  • From his noblest successes, _The Weavers_, _Drayman Henschel_, _Michael Kramer_, the artifice of complication is wholly absent.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • The action of _Rose Bernd_ opens on a bright Sunday morning in May, that of _Drayman Henschel_ during a bleak February dawn.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • The last play in this volume, _The Rats_, appeared in 1911, thirteen years after _Drayman Henschel_, nine years after _Rose Bernd_.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • A.M. ROBERTSON for "The Drayman," from _Songs of Bohemia_, by Daniel

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Abraham, Prince, and "Dan the Drayman," the latter a man of seventy, -- and their heads placed on poles at the four corners of the town.

    Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • Drayman depicted as an Evangelist, I see nothing to commend or admire in the performance, however great its reputed Painter.

    Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 1841

  • "My interaction with her had mostly to do with finishes -- with floor samples, selections, stains, paints, grout, tile, selection of this one item versus another item," Drayman said.

    latimes.com - News 2011

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