stable-boys

Tharos kitchen servants followed to pelt me with rotten fruit, and stable-boys threw stones.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Tharos kitchen servants followed to pelt me with rotten fruit, and stable-boys threw stones.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Tharos kitchen servants followed to pelt me with rotten fruit, and stable-boys threw stones.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Well, then, one of our stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in the river, he fancied he had seen the Spanish Grandee swimming some little way off, just like a fish.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Well, then, one of our stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in the river, he fancied he had seen the Spanish Grandee swimming some little way off, just like a fish.

La Grand Breteche 2007

And so we gave him his wig back, which one of the grinning stable-boys put on and carried to him as he lay in the straw.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

Mrs Winterfield kept a low, four-wheeled, one-horsed phaeton, in which she made her pilgrimages among the poor of Perivale, driven by the most solemn of stable-boys, dressed up in a great white coat, the most priggish of hats, and white cotton gloves.

The Belton Estate 2004

He would make his stable-boys hunt rats upon skates.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

The horses who had run in the last race were being led home, steaming and exhausted, by the stable-boys, and one after another the fresh horses for the coming race made their appearance, for the most part English racers, wearing horsecloths, and looking with their drawn-up bellies like strange, huge birds.

Anna Karenina 2003

And so it fell out; and when the sixteen stable-boys saw that he would drink nothing, they drank it all themselves, and one by one lay stretched around the board.

The Orange Fairy Book 2003