syce

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And the syce is happy; but his happiness needs constant sustenance.

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  • I asked the syce,who looked at his master before answering me. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
  • Yet Manila is worth a visit, for it represents a new form of the East—an East without the ricksha coolie or the syce, without the Indian or the Chinaman, a bustling nervous East, totally at variance with Oriental traditions. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • "Lieutenant's licking his syce, sir, for being dirty Oh!" —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
  • There is a little too much of the iron heel of the despot on their necks I thought of Barton's treatment of the syce, and of many similar incidents wherever I had been since I came out, and then forgot every one but the fact that the post had come in, and with it a letter from my father, enclosing two others from my mother and sister Where are they now?" —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
  • "Did that syce, Lieutenant Barton's man, bring this just now Yes, sahib. —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
 

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  1. Hindi sā'is, from Arabic, active participle of sāsa, to tend, manage, perhaps denominative from *sūs, horse, Hebrew sûs.
 

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