lurries

The same kind of bell is used on the shunting engines in goods yards, where roadways have to be crossed on which lurries and handtrucks circulate, and the results as far as prevention of accidents is concerned are stated to be very satisfactory.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

And by that he knew, too, that he had slipped back many thousands of years, because, of course, it is a very long time indeed since there were any mammoths alive, and able to draw lurries.

The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

Benedictines erasing the masterpieces of classical literature to make way for their own litanies and lurries, or selling pieces of the parchment for charms; a laity devoted by superstition to saints and by sorcery to the devil; a clergy sunk in sensual sloth or fevered with demoniac zeal -- these still ruled the intellectual destinies of Europe.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Meanwhile, amid these teeming Manchester streets with their clattering lurries and overflowing warehouses, there was at least one Englishman who took the war hardly, in whom the spectacle of its wreck and struggle roused a feeling which was all moral, human, disinterested.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

To this sad symbol they address their prayers and incense, chant their 'litanies and lurries,' and clash the rattles, which commemorate their rage against the traitor Judas.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

To this sad symbol they address their prayers and incense, chant their 'litanies and lurries,' and clash the rattles, which commemorate their rage against the traitor Judas.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

The lodge-door was like a common garden-door; on one side of it were great closed gates for the ingress and egress of lurries and wagons.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

As they drove through the larger and wider streets, from the station to the hotel, they had to stop constantly; great loaded lurries blocked up the not over-wide thoroughfares.

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Franciscans imprisoning Roger Bacon for venturing to examine what God had meant to keep secret; Dominicans preaching crusades against the cultivated nobles of Toulouse; Popes stamping out the seed of enlightened Frederick; Benedictines erasing the masterpieces of classical literature to make way for their own litanies and lurries, or selling pieces of the parchment for charms; a laity devoted by superstition to saints and by sorcery to the devil; a clergy sunk in sensual sloth or fevered with demoniac zeal: these still ruled the intellectual destinies of Europe.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866