hostler

• Off you go again: well: scarce is your back turned, when the filthy carrion begins running my rabbits up and down the yard; eats up all that he can catch; and never a one would have been left to tell the tale, if the great giantical hostler (him as blacked your shoes) hadn't ha' cudgelled him off. —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
• His feet are big, his head is small His German blood is slow, But at the call for volunteers Why, didn't Heinie go He's workin' as a hostler He used to be a clerk) He don't enjoy his job, that boy But Heinie is no shirk. —  With the Colors Songs of the American Service
• Guess he'll let you hang around for a week or so I'll go up as hostler," said Tim, "but you just say in that there note that Tim Doyle pays his own way after he gets there In that way it was settled. —  Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
• But in the matter of Barnacles he felt more free to express something of his uneasiness I didn't ship for no hostler, Cap'n, an' I guess I'll make a poor fist at it, but I'll do my best," he said Guess we'll manage him between us, Lank," cheerfully responded the Captain. —  Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
• The coachman was also hostler, and when the carriage was ready he altered his attire by removing a coarse, gray shirt or tunic and putting on a long, olive green coachman's coat, with erect linen collar and cuffs sewed into the collar and sleeves. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)

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