How To Use Hostler In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o 'game, Rugby," answers hostler.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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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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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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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
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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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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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But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
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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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But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
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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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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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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.
