dray-horses

The big wagons were coming on; the dray-horses 'huge hoofs were heard splashing in the mud and water.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

We had not moved far upon our return, when one of our most valuable dray-horses became completely overdone with fatigue, and I was obliged to take it out of the team and put in a riding horse, to try, if possible, to reach the plains where the grass was.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Mr. Moore, meantime, after stabling his dray-horses, had saddled his hackney, and with the aid of Sarah, the servant, lit up his mill, whose wide and long front now glared one great illumination, throwing a sufficient light on the yard to obviate all fear of confusion arising from obscurity.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

For miles after Caen there were long stretches of green pasture-lands -- hundreds of cows and horses, some of them the big Norman dray-horses resting a little before beginning again their hard work, and quantities of long-legged colts trotting close up alongside of their mothers, none of them apparently minding the train.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

Iroquois cur to be tied by his tail to a log of wood, and the celerity with which he drew it, yelping and screaming over a bed of ice, fully convinced M. Verdier that he was a legitimate descendant from those which perform the part of dray-horses among the Tartars.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Now the suppression of the stage-horses upon our principal thoroughfares, and of the dray-horses in the great commercial towns, may be calculated to economize a saving of food equivalent to the supply of the above number of human beings.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

Now and then he would amuse himself for an hour, sauntering in the sunshine about the wide, brightly gravelled yards, inspecting the huge dray-horses in their stables, exchanging "the top of the morning," as he facetiously called it to them, with the draymen.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

Do you order them round, as if they were so many dray-horses?

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

The town ran, in its lower part, to the grimy water-front, where there was ever a noise of the unloading of ships, the shouts of teamsters, and the clatter of dray-horses 'big hoofs on bare cobblestones.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

Candy-selling aliens jostled newsboys, and huge dray-horses endeavoured to the best of their ability not to grind the citizenry beneath their hooves.

Piccadilly Jim 1928