How To Use Ostler In A Sentence
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It didn't take long to pack things up with nine thousand men - not counting the servants, cooks, healers, horse hostlers, officers, and other assorted peoples - to do the work.
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She prosecuted her trade too with every attention to its diminished income; shut up the windows of one half of her house, to baffle the tax-gatherer; retrenched her furniture; discharged her pair of post-horses, and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Faster than some contemporary hostler can rustle up fresh horses or the unseen manager can replace fleeing steeds who take legal tender while tending behind the isthmus separating employee from customer.
When Is a Bar Not a Bar? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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Robert Creedle, too, who travelled with Giles, had been incidentally informed by the hostler that Dr. Fitzpiers and his young wife were in the hotel, after which news Creedle kept shaking his head and saying to himself, “Ah!” very audibly, between his thrusts at the screw of the cider-press.
The Woodlanders
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With the haste of a double-fee’d hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him.
Peveril of the Peak
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He paid the bill, watched as the hostler saddled his mount, and then rode out
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL
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Ay, Dougal!" shouted a tattered hostler, running up to grab the halter of the lead horse.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Grinder delivered the white – legged horse to the hostler of a quaint stable at the corner; and inviting Mrs Brown and her daughter to seat themselves upon a stone bench at the gate of that establishment, soon reappeared from a neighbouring public – house with a pewter measure and a glass.
Dombey and Son
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Oliver and Sikes got in without any further ceremony; and the man to whom he belonged, having lingered for a minute or two ‘to bear him up,’ and to defy the hostler and the world to produce his equal, mounted also.
Oliver Twist
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No one would have mistaken him for anything other than a stable-boy or hostler, and these aristocratic brats always made it a point never to look twice at a servant.
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Then stepping to the kitchen door, with an audible voice he called the ostler, and in a very graceful accent said, "D-- n your blood, you cock-eyed son of a bitch, bring me my boots! did not you hear me call?
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
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The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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The ostler and humpbacked postilion, one bearing a stable-lantern and a hay-fork, the other a rushlight and a broom, constituted the advanced guard; Mrs. Dods herself formed the centre, talking loud and brandishing a pair of tongs; while the two maids, like troops not to be much trusted after their recent defeat, followed, cowering in the rear.
Saint Ronan's Well
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But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
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After Desmond spoke to the ostler, they climbed into the gig and drove off toward Ealing.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
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He partook of a leisurely breakfast, paid his reckoning, had the ostler bring his horse, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air.
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Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and to tell him to get a post-chaise and four immediately.
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
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As soon as I came into the stable I took the bridle off the horses, and called the ostler to me to help me, and to give the horses some oats.
Royalty Restored
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Like it was for most railroaders working in and out of Russell, RU Cabin became a daily institution… a key element in the workplace for countless train crews, yard crews, hostlers, yardmasters, and dispatchers.
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Improvements in translation technology will not change this by making it less important to learn second languages at all, despite claims such as Nicholas Ostler's in The Last Lingua Franca.
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The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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A sleepy ostler trotted it out and Colum, patting and talking to it gently, led it out into the street.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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When the two of them reached the entrance to the stables, a hostler came walking up.
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Baning was employed there as an hostler, and to that extent he was entirely within his rights.
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So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary.
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Probably one of the inn servants, because he called the ostler by name.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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He was a farrier as well as an ostler; he could bleed, remove lampers from the mouths of the horses, and was well instructed in horse medicines.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.'
On Dictionaries
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Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind – legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly.
Oliver Twist
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Erial smiled gratefully as the hostler brought up three horses.
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The coach had set down six inside and ten out passengers (all voters) about ten minutes before Murphy marched up to the inn door, leading the black mare, and calling "ostler" most lustily.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
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With the haste of a double-fee'd hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him.
Peveril of the Peak
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As he dismounted, a hostler came out of the stable across the street
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL
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The author was really Gordon Ostlere, a former anaesthetist and ship's surgeon.
Safe in their hands? Margaret Drabble on the threat facing the NHS
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This time the aspirant was a gay young hostler, who conceived the desperate project of posing as the regent's son.
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa
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‘All these things put together, excited their curiosity; and they engaged a peery servant, as they called a footman who was drinking with Kit. the hostler, at the tap-house, to watch all her motions.
Clarissa Harlowe
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The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right.
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I was rudely awakened by an ostler with the news and came immediately here.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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_ You handed the candles to him, and went immediately to call the ostler?
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
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Candle makers, after all, cannot be expected to hail the invention of the electric light bulb, nor hostlers the advent of automobiles, nor canal-boat owners the building of railways, nor TV broadcasters the laying down of cable systems.
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Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o 'game, Rugby," answers hostler.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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_ Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and tell him to get a post chaise and four immediately.
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
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Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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After searching the entire castle, I eventually found them in the stables handing their horses over to the hostlers after a ride.
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This fierce and buccaneerish person summoned the dozing hostler in a coarse, imperative voice, flung him the reins, sprang from his seat, and assisted his companion to alight.
The Redemption of David Corson
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So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary.
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The next morning Costler was as crazy as a loon — the mountain fever had attacked him.
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He rode about the city those days behind a team of spirited bays, whose glossy hides and metaled harness bespoke the watchful care of hostler and coachman.
The Financier
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In the love of the lady he will be succeeded by a gardener, who will be replaced by a monk, who will give way to an ostler, who will be deposed by a Jew pedler, who shall, finally, yield to a noble earl, the future husband of the fair Mathilde.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Now that caution found its reward: a mark whose fat purse he remembered from the inn in Durham, where Neil had ordered up a hasty meal to be eaten in the saddle and the rider had heaved himself down from his mount and pulled out his bulging purse to toss a handful of coins to the ostler who ran up to tend the horse.
Shameless
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That story had been whispered around the llys from ostler to maid to armourer to page, and come early to the ears of the last hostage from Ceredigion, who alone could observe all these goings-on with an indifferent eye, since Gwynedd was not home to him, and Owain was not his lord, nor Gilbert of Saint Asaph his bishop.
His Disposition
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He was waiter and hostler to a village inn; and the scene in which he, upon wine being called for by a customer, produces, condemns, and consumes, a bottle of the "_black seal_" was the perfection of acting, the different phases of ebriety were well portrayed, and in the course of the play, additional red patches appeared upon his face, to show the effects of his habits.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
