Phillips brought here a pair of horse-shoes belonging to a drayhorse of the firm of Truman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

He could no longer serve his country in Paris, or create it in Philadelphia; he did not have to work like a drayhorse; he was beyond his mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's First Dynasty] Reference

Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference

Six feet six towered this hair-thicketed ogre, with a chest like a drayhorse, and arms as thick as stovepipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Asteroid] Reference

Pegasus were more truly figured as a drayhorse than a steed with wings; he jogs along trot-trot, and occasionally he stands at an obstinate pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a drayhorse, and examines it to see whether 'tis a stone in the frog or a cast shoe he has come for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

Although such a drayhorse-looking animal, he could throw the ground behind him amazingly; and the deep-holding clay in which he now found himself was admirably suited to his short, powerful legs and enormous stride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

We don't want the delicate, delectable wines of June, gossamer as some early aircraft fashioned from string and paper, blown by a breath and a breeze, nor do we yet require the full-blooded, two-fisted drayhorse-drawn wines of November.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bigger Than Your Head] Reference

Although there are many varieties of the horse genus -- scores of them, widely differing from each other -- they can all be easily recognised by these characteristic marks, from the "Suffolk Punch," the great London drayhorse, down to his diminutive little cousin the "Shetland Pony.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

Taglioni flogged herself like a drayhorse for six hours a day, mastering everything her father knew and experimenting with stunts from Italy, where men and women were hoicking themselves up on their toes, even their toe points, no mean feat in satin slippers faintly stiffened with rows of darning stitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Then at seventeen he lifted an imported French drayhorse in a contest and his life’s work began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of the Day: The Strongest Man In the World: Louis Cyr] Reference