Verb (used with object) : Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : a draft horse. ,draft ale.    From Dictionary.com. 

That is to say the Regiment ate home collects recruits, trains them and sends 'them out in draughts to the Regiment abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Organization of the Military Forces of the Empire] Reference

I complained, and was given another room where the draughts were the same, but I was without my coughing and hawking neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

He came to criticise and remained to play a game of "draughts," as he called them, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Time is a wean, playin draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heraclitus] Reference

The life is very monotonous; and the only amusement they have is fishing, with reading and a few games, such as draughts and chess.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference

"draughts" of eels on a Friday for the Saturday's work, a "draught" being twenty pounds, while now and then he has been known to get rid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners of Poverty Abroad] Reference

And those most favored swallow monstrous draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

In ventilating the stable we should avoid draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The room should be warm; there should be no draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Cattle-trucks provide ample novelty, aroma and draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

Chickens must have plenty of fresh air without draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

He seems animated by the draughts he takes from his wine-cask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference

A screen will be found useful to prevent draughts and to shade the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference

Rice, sugar, and molasses are our principal draughts from the Commissary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

The quarters should be clean, well bedded and ventilated, but free from draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

There are treacherous draughts under trees, and Polly was very careful of her mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Robin] Reference

So if you must sleep in the house, secure perfect ventilation without direct draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference

For a moment she leaned across the sill, drinking in deep draughts of the frosty ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

He or she is best and bravest among you who gives us the freshest draughts of reality and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

He would look for the wine-bottles of the promises and drink rich draughts of vitalizing grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Give nothing by the mouth until the breathing is relieved, and then only draughts of cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

He combed great handfuls of mud from his plastered features and snorted deep draughts of fresh air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

I have to withdraw many light-draughts from other points on the Mississippi to supply demands here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Some draughts were given which may have had some medicinal effect, but they were supposed to be enchanted drinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

He thought he was a student again, loafing along the arcades after dinner, eager for novelty, careless of draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Or make a bed alongside of the wall anywhere and box it in to protect it from cold and draughts, and mice and rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

It is very necessary that animals exposed to cold be provided with dry sleeping quarters that are free from draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

His draughts, however, for money, were always answered; and he hoped, from this circumstance, that his friends were well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference

McChesney stood on the bottom step, looking up and down Main Street and breathing in great draughts of that unadjectivable air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

When you are in a perspiration, do not lie down upon the ground, do not expose yourself to draughts, and do not drink cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

"One drinks in the air by long draughts; the eyes seem to be intoxicated with the sun, the very soul to bathe in the glory of colour!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

In cold weather it is very difficult to properly ventilate a crowded stable without too much loss of animal heat and creating draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

After vomiting has taken place with these, aid it, if possible, by copious draughts of warm water until the poison is entirely removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

They are kept out of all draughts of air for fear of a cold; and if they should take cold, why, they must take medicine of the most repulsive character as a penalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference