saises

Among these apricot orchards I had a capital stable for twelve horses, and a good room attached to it for any number of saises, or grooms, and beyond that again was a little garden, through which the river wended its way.

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One subcaste, the Dumar, will do scavenger's work, but they never take employment as _saises_, because the touch of horse-dung is considered as a pollution, entailing temporary excommunication from caste.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

He arrived home after daylight with a very weary horse, and ordered the saises to wash the wheels at once, in order that the color of the dirt might be impressed on them thoroughly.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

Horses wheeled out from the shadow of the wall, led by saises, and the Rajput gentry mounted.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

My horse cut his fetlock -- nothing serious -- and I set your two saises (grooms) to work on it with a sponge and water.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

How should one protect the privacy of a palace gate if unknown memsahibs in dog-carts, with saises who knew English but did not answer when spoken to in the native tongue, were to be allowed to draw up in front of the gate at unseemly hours and remain there indefinitely.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

Later he drove Tess down-hill in the dog-cart, first changing his own disguise for American clothes because the saises might be up and about when he returned at dawn, and for them to see him in the costume of a sais would only have added to the risk of putting Gungadhura's men on the scent of Yasmini.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

He himself drove home by a very wide circuit indeed, threading his cautious way among the hills toward the gold-diggings, where he drove back and forward several times around the edges of the dump, in order that the saises might see the red dirt on the wheels afterward and believe, and tell where he had been.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

Samson found Utirupa giving orders to the saises, and shook hands with him.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

As for the personal attendants, the gun-bearers, tent-boys, and saises, as well as the head men and askaris, or soldiers, they felt as far above the porters as the latter did above the shenzis.

VII. Wild Hunting Companions 1916