1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page79:
When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind ofraft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as hisraft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the firstraft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced.
Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... I agree.Y'know, I think he actually could havefitted on that bit of door. There was plenty of room on theraft. I know. I know, I know.
For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria,rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang.
1977-1980,Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors),We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Pomeroy asked me araft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.
2007, Edwin Mullins,The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published2008, page31:
Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing araft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, inBBC Sport[3]:
The goals and entertainment dried up after the break as Wales made araft of substitutions but, with more meaningful challenges to come, a capacity crowd at the Stok Racecourse appreciated the bigger picture with Croatia on the horizon.
