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
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 Henry Wallace Phillips
Either the hostler did his work with his eyes shut, or the leather of the harness gave way, or the iron work of something.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
There were torches lighted in the mews; an hostler took Warlock; I swung out of the saddle and stepped back to a shelter from the storm.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
