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

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.

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

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.