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

Is this a tavern! are you all dead! where's the landlord! the hostler!

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.

It happened one evening I wandered over the hills to the end of the little jerk-line that ran our way, and watched the hostler put the engine in the shed for the night.

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

Crossing the plaza, he dismounted at the hotel he had previously visited, and sent for the majordomo when the hostler grumbled something about the stable's being full.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold