livery-stables

In 1753 there existed in Paris twenty-eight cab-stands and sixty livery-stables, containing in all one hundred and seventy carriages.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

The proprietors of two rival livery-stables, situated alongside each other in a busy street, have been having a lively advertising duel lately.

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

Smith's livery-stables, at the Cross-keys yard, Chelsea.

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 William Brodie Gurney

On his arrival he called at all the livery-stables in the village, and had a few minutes 'serious conversation with the proprietors.

Howards End 1924

And here, in the very first stage, I was supplanted by a shabby man with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like a livery-stables, and being able to walk across me, more like a fly than a human being, while the horses were at a canter!

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

The conditions of horse-cars in the neighboring avenues showed for many years no improvement upon this discomfort, and the prices of "hacks" and "coaches," procured after much preamble at the livery-stables, were prohibitive save for the solvent citizen.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

In the immediate foreground, to be sure, would be the yard of the livery-stables and the rather slummy dwellings of the colliers, sloping downhill.

The Lost Girl 1907

I was obliged to hire horses at livery-stables, and the coachman, instead of putting me down for the night at the posthouses, took me to wretched cabins where there were no beds and nothing to eat, so that in most cases I spent the night in my carriage.

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

Mrs. Symons had helped the charwoman, and the gardener, and the driver from the livery-stables, when they were in special difficulties, and Henrietta had continued to do so, and had had her hour at the hospital.

The Third Miss Symons 1902

At the well-known livery-stables in Holywell, he found a certain animation.

Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885