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

“I’ll call him,” went on the hostler, thinking there might be a chance to earn a dime.

From Leo the Circus Boy by Stratemeyer, Edward

There was neither porter nor hostler visible, and the Englishman, unquestioned, crossed the threshold, and found himself in a large stone-paved apartment which, from its scent, he judged to be a stable.

From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.

The hostler was quaking visibly, and the Colonel seized her arm as though rescuing a drowning person.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett