hostler

Example Sentences

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The new streets-as-buildings would provide garages at every stop, making disposal of the auto as simple as flinging the reins to the hostler at the local inn.

From Time Magazine Archive

The groom or hostler, a man she had never seen, was standing in the door, eyes wide with fright.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

We find him then as hostler in Chicago where he was laid up with an attack of cholera, and as he did not fully recover his strength he returned to the old home again.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

But the hostler was a still more wonderful man.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace

But he kept on larfin till he was black in the face, when he fell over on to the bunk where the hostler sleeps, and in a still small voice sed, “Twins!”

From Why Lincoln Laughed by Conwell, Russell Herman