No one ever took up a farm in those days without a dray and a team, a year's rations, a few horses and milkers, pigs and fowls, and a little furniture.
Then we met a loaded dray and team in front, that had rations and swags and a tent.
She could ride like a bird and drive bullocks on a pinch in a dray or at plough, chop wood, too, as well as here and there a one.
To see me dressed out with my team and my dray too, Wid a whip like a flail and such gaiters, Ohone!
It is a common sight when travelling in Australia, to meet a dray drawn by bullocks, laden with furniture, and white people.
Preparations had to be made for his journey by filling a bullock skin with water, and sending a dray with it as far as possible; and on the eighth day he returned.
Sending the drayand horses back, Eyre, with one white man and the black boy, went on, having buried some casks of water against their return.
Then he cracked his whip, and the bullocks strained at their harness, and the dray creaked slowly onwards.
Then the shafts of the dray were roofed and hung round with the tarpaulin, and a bed of dried leaves was made for Alice.
The awning over the dray protected her from the sun; the grateful shade, the buzz of insect life, even the gentle jolting of the dray and the faint crack of the driver's whip, all invited repose.
Pariset, sitting at the back of the dray with his face to the door, began to hum a tune, and Kenneth caught the words "En avant!
In turning the horses for the journey back, Kenneth contrived to bring the dray close against the wall, so that from his high seat he was able to look over.
A heavy dray laden with beer was lumbering down the road.
When the dray drew up before the door, Pariset sprang down and jerked the iron bell-pull.
The dray is probably waiting for the tide to come in.
Dorgan's dray would make a cheerful noise if it was the last sound on earth.
He is lashing his horses with the ends of the reins, while from the bounding dray small articles of no value, such as butter-firkins and cases of eggs, are emerging and following on the road behind.
At an equal distance from the east comes another cloud of dust and an even more terrible uproar, Clay Billings's dray having more loose spokes than Bill Dorgan's.
There the bottom was so soft, and the dray wheels had become so embedded in the mud, that only with the assistance of the second team could the passage be effected.
It was determined by the Fergusons that the dray then on the station, should go down to town with the first load of their wool; and that William should follow it, and procure furniture and other necessaries for it to return with.
His sister had expressed her willingness to join her brothers; and the dray having arrived from Alma, with the necessary materials to complete their dwelling, John had hurried on the carpenters with their work.
The second dray was not even so fortunate as the first; for all efforts of the double team were unavailing to pass the rubicon; and it settled in the mud mid-way between the banks.
We left John Ferguson on the bank of the river, gazing on the dray safely (or rather unsafely) fixed in the bed of the river.
The Australian bullock dray with its bovine traction, we may remark, is without exception the most primitive means of conveyance that can either be devised or imagined.
If I dwelt face to face with a brick wall and saw no motion save that of horse-cars and over-laden dray horses I might be more satisfied with what I accomplish.
The tread of dray horses and the rumbling of carts sounded in his ears from earliest dawn till late night.
As for Alice and me, the inside passengers, we found the sensation of jumping a creek in a dray most unpleasant.
They arrived as usual on a dray late in the evening, tired and wearied enough, poor souls.
He had never even drawn a dray in his life, so far as we knew, but at the same time we felt sure that when once Jack understood what was required of him, he would do his best to help us to get to our croquet ground.
By and bye I hears a rumbling and a creaking, and cracking of whips; and when I looks out, what do I see but the bullock-dray from Simmons' coming up the flat.
A dray was suggested (carriages we had none; there being no roads for them if we had possessed such vehicles); but alas, and alas!
From Monday to Saturday (when the dray returned), this state of things went on.
A large dray with a couple of powerful horses was in readiness, and into this springless vehicle we were unceremoniously bundled.
At last the driver, fearing for his life, jumped off his dray and left all to their fate.
The joke about Dray's doctor was that Dray never knew a doctor other than the medical inspector at school.
Jack was hugging Walter and Dray was smoothing Ed's black hair.
I'm sure Dray didn't use the tooth brush on her before we came out," spoke Jack, accusingly.
Thus chanted Jack, Walter, Ed andDray Ward, as they saw the advancing girls.
Finally Walter and Ed, after a private conference with Dray and Jack, decided to give to the unfortunates all the food they possessed, "in order to avert worse damage to their property.
Dray stood up and did something that caused the bow of his boat to shoot up, while the stern seemed to bury itself in the waves.
And you had a 'Doins' last night," Drayreminded him.
Dray can get his awning up quickly enough, but this one has not been opened yet.
By this time Dray had turned off the gasoline and the Dixie merely heaved up and down on the swells.
I hope dinner will bear out the reputation," Freda replied, a bit shyly, forDray was somewhat of a stranger to her.
That sounds fine," Dray told Freda, who in her blue linen sailor suit looked quite as well as the young ladies who put in most of their time "leisuring.
We didn't have any but 'pretense' milk, so Dray is now out looking for a cow.
Dray ran his boat, the Dixie, alongside, and together the fleet of two comprised what the boys termed a "White House Lunch.
Next the logs are dragged out to the dray roads, Fig.
Back from the skidways, into the woods the swampers cut rough, narrow roads called dray roads or travoy roads,--mere trails sufficiently cleared of brush to allow a team of horses to pull a log thru.
The dray is very like ours, and the rider like Paul.
The second dray now drove up, and Hector, a delicate-looking youth, was the first to get out, stretching himself and yawning as he did so.
Bendigo cracked his whip, and his horses dashed forward at such a rate that it was a wonder the dray did not immediately capsize.
Greetings were over by the time the first draydrew up at the door.
Harnessed to a dray or a wagon, it shuffles along, its big, flat feet seeming to walk all over the road.
Illustration: The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along] When the Philippine Islands became a possession of the United States, one of the first things done was to establish several thousand schools.
Furbish was about starting off on his dray when Walter reached the stand.
Just ahead of them, a dray was being driven down the wharf at a rapid rate, making the loose planks rattle again.
The editor did not print it, but he wrote me a crisp and saucy postal card, requesting me to call with a dray and remove my stuff before the board of health got after it.
I do not remember now what this plant was called, but I know it was sent to us wrapped up in a piece of moist brown paper, and half an hour later a dray drove up to the house with the name of the plant itself.
It is better to be the successful driver of a dray than to be the unsuccessful inventor of a still-born motor.
Out on the sidewalk the riverpigs came noisily, but when they saw the dray with its burden they stopped abruptly.
He ordered a plain pine coffin, and after procuring a dray for a hearse, drove up to Blank's saloon for the boys.
As for Simon Ketzel, he found himself at once upon the very crest of a wave of popularity, for through the driver of the dray it became known that it was Simon that had come so splendidly to the rescue.
But as the shadows of evening began to gather, the great brewery dray with its splendid horses and its load of kegs piled high, drew up to Paulina's door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dray" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: barge; boat; bus; caravan; carriage; cart; coach; ferry; float; haul; raft; ship; sled; truck; van; wagon
