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Drays and carts and private carriages rattled away, the harsh crash and grind of iron on stone, and as their noise departed, so too did the wash of human voices.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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Sale of the Drays and part of the Equipment 28 00 00
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Drays and lorries crawled for ever laboriously along it, seeming glued to the earth by the monstrous sticky heat of the veiled sun.
Australia Felix 2003
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There is also a late Invention practised by a common Brewer in the Country that I am acquainted with, for the safe Carriage of Drink on Drays, to some distance without losing any of it, and that is in the Top Center of one of these Bungs, he puts in a wooden Funnel, whose Spout is about four
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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Drays passed through it to the Grand Trunk station, but they passed one at a time; a certain number of people went up and down about their affairs, but they were never in a hurry; a street car jogged by every ten minutes or so, but nobody ran after it.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Drays and carts clattered over the cobbles, and an incessant shuffling of thousands of feet rose from the pavement.
The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886
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Drays pulled in to the curb, automobiles stopped, people stood on the street corners, and some -- the pilgrims -- uncovered.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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Drays, carts, and wagons were seized with a simultaneous stampede, which soon cleared the middle of the street, and, uninjured by the collision, our carriage flew on.
Beulah 1872
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