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 Phillips, Henry Wallace

Colonel Tennytown had directed a hostler who followed the party to bring out a sorrel gelding of which he was especially proud.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

"She gave Mat, hostler, stuff that cured his ague in no time," shouted a voice.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur