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dray
1. Uncle Todd had come down from the top pastures where he farmed so that with his horses and dray cart he could help take the equipment and staging back to Dorts council maintenance building Everything got stored there, even Mr
2. Around the back of the stables were two old, reconditioned Dray wagons
3. Egret Lane was a common enough street, wide enough for the dray wagon to unload huge casks of beer and liquor and pretty enough that the businesses had flower boxes on the windows
4. The inside was cold and dray, and smelt earthy with a hint of the acrid smell of metal
5. “Shut it fore, there,” screeched a witch of a voice from within the dray
6. Mary Draper flicked the horses with the long fly whip, and the dray wobbled into its geriatric, lumbering perambulations
7. Her other two unsolicited travelling companions had bravely insisted upon waiting back in the dray, which was parked behind a copse at the curve in the road
8. Johnny and Caesar had been sitting still in the cramped dray for long enough to hear the trees come alive with birdsong and for the crickets to return from the cracks in the parched earth
9. He re-emerged with two rusty flintlocks in his hands (his own numerous weapons were still in Mary's dray)
10. McGuire, Johnny and Mary sat up front as the dray ambled down a narrow side road while Caesar elected to sit on his own with legs dangling from the rear
11. Mary's dray was still here at least
12. “Well I don't know about you two, but I'm out of here quick smart,” said Caesar, disappearing into the freak show of a shack, returning moments later with two large flagons of booze, which he loaded upon the dray
13. Without so much as a pause Mary jumped into the back of the dray, rummaged around and appeared again with a long rifle pointed directly at Johnny
14. Johnny stepped to Caesar and took the coin, turning it this way and that in the midday sun while Mary began to load up the dray again
15. All around, as the lumbering dray moved further into wilderness, the hunger of nature seemed to cry out for a kill
16. Mary only agreed to follow once they had disguised the dray in foliage and tied the horses up further into the trees
17. Caesar, having long since slunk back to the dray, continued to sleep off his best attempt at denying the blackskins their chance to savour Johnny's gift of grog they had all shared in
18. Two days later, Caesar's strung-out head wobbled against the floor of the dray
19. “I should hope not,” came Mary's voice from the dray
20. The smaller of the two naked Taungurong children picked herself up from the earth and snuck, with no sign of fear, down the slope and up to the looming dray, followed closely by her brother
21. ” He hooked his thumb at his chest then turned to retrieve another small sack from the dray
22. Sitting in plain sight, below, was the dray – next to a freshly quenched hearth
23. Mary remained by the dray while the two men went back to the river
24. She spat on the sponge, dipped it in the white powder and began dabbing the stencil upon the canvas of the covered dray
25. “Dead Shot, Lead, Shot, and Sinker,” read Johnny, where Mary had stencilled the words upon the side of the dray
26. While Johnny dug and Caesar kept watch, Mary continued disguising the dray
27. As they readied their dray Caesar stood back to admire the disguises in the dying light of day
28. Mary urged the horses forward and the dray came clean through the mud onto surer ground
29. When Mary finally retired that night he followed her like a bad smell, slipping beside her over the cold, hard, timber surface of the dray
30. “We're not going anywhere with that,” said Johnny, jumping from the dray
31. From within the shade of the dray she could now hear Nigger's low growl
32. After a few moments of abandonment Johnny spotted her chatting to an old man by one of the dray caravans that was parked nearby
33. “What is there to it? All that lead and tin my informant told me was in the coffin dray – they were obviously fixing on passing pewter for silver shillings
34. Olin had rented a one-horse dray from Jake Lorrent's livery in order to convey the man along with his luggage and tools to the recently erected log cabin at The Rocks
35. Olin helped the man carry his bag and toolbox to the dray and after loading them the two climbed to the wooden seat and Olin lightly snapped the reins upon the horse's back to begin the journey to The Rocks
36. Andre met the dray when they arrived and helped carry Zygmunt's bag and box to the cabin
37. They both nodded affirmatively and Olin stepped out the door of the cabin and mounted the dray in order to return it to Jake Lorrent
38. As she mounted into her rented dray she knew that she would recommend to her brother and husband that all their throats be cut once they had served her purposes
39. The Bank of England emerges; and the Monument with its bristling head of golden hair; the dray horses crossing London Bridge show grey and strawberry and iron-coloured
40. The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and
41. But before he could conclude, the barman had clutched him by the collar, dragged him violently to the door and shot him into the middle of the road, where he fell in a heap almost under the wheels of a brewer's dray that happened to be passing
42. In desperation she nephews observed impertinently that while he didn’t especially enjoy driving a dray, it raised the wage she was offering but she was still refused
43. Merriwether’s was his own dray and he would rather get somewhere under his own steam than Scarlett’s
44. We were somewhere in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire (’twas all Lancelot would disclose of the Location of his Hideaway—lest, he said, I e’er be apprehended and put to grievous Torture), and we were to journey by Land to a small Stream call’d the Mill Brook, thence tow the Swag by Barge and Dray Horse to the River Thames, thence remove it to another, greater Barge, and enter London triumphally by River
45. He 'elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray
46. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached to four horses harnessed tandem
47. chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds
48. Two or three had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet
49. In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of rough stone
50. On the outside, the front of the barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect
