While the hostlers were saddling a pony and leading it out in front of the station, he snatched some cold meat from the table, gulped down a cup of lukewarm coffee, and hurried outside.
When the last trace had been snapped into place the hostlers would very gingerly free the vehicle from its moorings and, as the ropes came slack, leap for their lives.
As he drew near the station each man let out a long coyote yell; the hostlers led his animal into the roadway.
A stable-boy slid from her back on one side as Bull Page threw the saddle across her from the other; hostlers caught at the cinches, while others hurriedly rubbed the legs of the quivering mare.
Hostlers running through the barn called shrilly back and forth, and de Spain springing up the stairs to his room provided what he wanted for his hurried flight.
They stayed here all day, and one of my hostlers says the dog tried to break loose several times.
He let Rex trot into the stable yard, and, dismounting, told one of the hostlers to feed and water the animal when it had cooled off.
I know a lot of hostlers that are better hostlers than a lot of lawyers that are lawyers.
Hostlers shall be paid at the rate of two dollars and forty cents per day; twelve hours or less to constitute a day's work.
If the king who sent me this letter has such hostlers and such scullions, how great must be his khans and viziers!
And he is a great king, lord of many lands and many seas, who has no need of secret messengers, hostlers and scullions of whom no one has heard, to persuade strangers of his greatness.
The boys applied whip and spur, the waiters shouted, the hostlers cheered, and away they went, fast and furiously.
The hostlers had taken her over the cinder-pit and cleaned out the fire-box.
Before the 1847 slipped from the turntable into the waiting stall, the hostlers and the wipers were at her.
At that hour thehostlers have made the 1847 fit for service.
Like the engineer and the hostlers in the roundhouse, he takes no chances, no responsibilities that do not fairly belong to him.
An indescribable bedlam of confusion followed, lords and gentlemen, tradesmen and grooms, hostlers and apprentices, all tumbling after, many crying with laughter.
Presently, indeed, it was beyond my power, and I could only smile feebly at my Lord when I heard Dolly asking him that the hostlers might be more quiet.
The roundhouse men and a few hostlers were still working, so it was an easy thing to get a yard engine out.
To make matters worse the roundhouse men and the hostlers caught the fever, and out they went.
As we came out of the tavern-door Lady Coleville nodded, and her coach moved off, passing our horses, which the hostlers were bringing round.
Sleepy hostlers in smalls and bare feet tumbled out in the glare of the coach-house lanthorn at my shout.
He has just so much of politics as hostlers in the university have Latin.
He was never so much discredited as in one act, and that was of parliament, which gives hostlers privilege before him, for which he abhors it more than a corrupt judge.
Outside the talk of hostlers grew so loud that the birds fled from the inn yard to the still deserted bowling green.
Two horses were being groomed in the courtyard, but as he had discussed all their points both with their owners and the hostlers at least half a dozen times before, he was not inclined to pursue the outworn theme farther.
While he sat in the taproom discussing life with an elderly bagman, one of the hostlers of the Blue Boar to whom he had confided his destination brought him a note.
The boys applied whip and spur, the waiter shouted, the hostlers cheered, and away they went, fast and furious.
Esquires ought never to want to sleep," said Denis; and then quickly, "nor grooms nor hostlers neither.
We could not eat, and there was no conversation among the hostlers and herdsmen--we all sat at the same board.
The hostlers and station-keepers treated the really powerful conductor of the coach merely with the best of what was their idea of civility, but the driver was the only being they bowed down to and worshipped.
Canvassmen, hostlers and actors--all in the hotels.
All imagined the two hostlers were fighting and endeavored to separate them.
Illustration: He Could Feel the Clutch of Long, Bony Fingers on Him] The hostlers flew, both trying to enter the narrow door of the tavern.
The hostlers ran to walk the horses till they cooled, and to rub them down before they fed, for they were all afoam.
The stout landlord was plain in the doorway, and visibly much distressed; hostlers and others appeared with lights; riderless horses were prancing and snorting about with angry men pursuing them.
Innkeepers gave them their best attention; hostlers looked to their horses with unexampled solicitude; the townspeople gathered about them burning to hear the news from the lips of the lads who had been in the battle.
So Mr. George and Rollo remained quietly standing by the side of the diligence while the hostlers finished harnessing the horses.
Hostlers came running from the stables and stood by the horses' heads.
Our animals were also quite stiff, but the hostlers attributed this not so much to their yesterday's service as to their long ride in the cars.
One of the hostlers and a Mexican were left in camp, the remainder of our force accompanying us, with a couple of wagons to bring in the game.
When they were trotted out for inspection, by some hostlers whom we had hired that morning for our trip, the inhabitants must have considered the sight the next best thing to a circus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hostlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
