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The young officers' buggies now stood all day in Major Warrener's compound, with the patient syces squatting near, or talking with the servants, while the major's horses stood ready saddled in the stables.

From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

But I suppose he'll have punkahs and khitmutgars and syces and be the devil of a chap.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

Such of them as are placed in mediocre circumstances arrange with their Mussulman syces and get fowl curry or roast as often as they choose.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder

When the morning of the shooting party arrived Wargrave and Raymond, having sent their syces on ahead with their guns, rode at dawn to the Residency.

From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon

Ordered to carry revolvers, they stuffed them unloaded into side-pockets, or left them in the hands of syces to bear behind them.

From Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)