ostler

• The ostler, his grin frozen to his face, his feet dangling a few inches from the ground, found silence his best defense. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
• With a nod for the ostler, he backed the curricle preparatory to making a stylish exit from the yard. —  AN UNWILLING CONQUEST
• Take charge, Mr. Blackfellow-ostler, and while you do your duty let me amuse myself with my notebook. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• I can at least answer for the ostler, who required some other gentleman as aide_, turning out on this, and on other occasions, a most assiduously civil fellow; and as for our host, he served up the steaks of his bear as though it might never have danced to any but the "genteelest o' tunes," and himself have been its instructor He certainly gave us, in a plain but comfortable way, the best game dinner possible, including trout and codling of the finest flavour. —  Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
• "Our upper ostler," said he, "died about a week ago; he was a clever fellow, and, besides his trade, understood reading and accounts Dear me," said I, interrupting him, "I am not fitted for the place of ostler--moreover, I refused the place of ostler at a public-house, which was offered to me only a few days ago." —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"

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