dray-horse

Thus, the spaniel and the greyhound, the dray-horse and the Arab, the pouter and the tumbler, breed together with perfect freedom, and their mongrels, if matched with other mongrels of the same kind, are equally fertile.

Essays 2007

“A sture woife, and a dour,” said one Cumbrian peasant, as he clattered by in his wooden brogues, with a noise like the trampling of a dray-horse.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

As they rode along the forest, they met Athelstane the Thane powdering along the road in the direction of Rotherwood on his great dray-horse of a charger.

Burlesques 2006

Gyalpo, which kept turning out either too small for a mule or too big for a dray-horse.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

I had frequently seen him before, and wondered at him; he was barely fifteen hands, but he had the girth of a metropolitan dray-horse; his head was small in comparison with his immense neck, which curved down nobly to his wide back: his chest was broad and fine, and his shoulders models of symmetry and strength; he stood well and powerfully upon his legs, which were somewhat short.

Lavengro 2004

Like a willing dray-horse the Wolseley responds to it.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

He would not be more astonished than would the ancient Eohippus on meeting with a modern dray-horse.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

"He doesn't want to be used as a dray-horse," observed Leo, sympathetically.

Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

He is, moreover, as strong as a dray-horse, and as handy, so John declares, "as a fiddle."

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

We have since found out, by experience in Egypt, that these camels were of what may be called the cart-horse breed, and there is about as much difference in riding such a one and a properly-trained dromedary as there is between a dray-horse and a thoroughbred.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various