We see the ostler vividly--we do not see the man--save on the ostler side.
With Hardy we should see other aspects beside theostler aspect of the man.
Then again there is the inimitable ostler in The Romany Rye, whose talk exhales what Borrow would call "the wholesome smell of the stable.
It would take a male helephant to get to Sunbury to-night There’s been no such snow for six and forty year; old Jim the ostler can call it to mind; and then it was over the roof, he saith.
When the rig stopped she went to the door, where the ostler stood with a lantern, and caught her breath as Wilkinson got down.
Sadie, putting her foot on the wheel when the ostlerheld up the light, saw Charnock lying on a bundle of sacks.
The guests had gone to bed and the building was very quiet, but she had kept the ostler up.
Juno turnsostler in her fury, And joins the horses in a hurry.
The old ostler went, measuring the five pounds which he had made by the treasure he had lost, and finding no comfort in the possession of that which only an hour before had been a fortune to gloat over.
Passing through the inn yard, his quick eye detected in the ostler a quondam stable-boy.
The ostler turned deadly pale, but in a moment the Colonel dispelled his alarm.
He had a sort of name too; but if he did anything better than he fished, the head ostler was a Dutchman!
There, a lame ostler crawls about with his hands thrust into the capacious pockets of his jacket, feeding on memory.
From within the inn came again landlady and chamberlain, and from the stableostler and boy, obsequious all and of no interest to Mr. Caryll.
The fine gentleman looked up and scowled; the parson looked up and trembled; the ostler and his boy looked up and grinned.
Landlady, chamberlain, ostler and a posse of underlings hastened to give welcome to so fine a gentleman, and a private room above-stairs was placed at his disposal.
Heard you no reason given why they should prefer me to your chamberlain, your ostler or your drawer?
And Ostler John's tale was as follows, so far as I could make it out, by means of good luck, and by watching his face.
This tale, which Ostler John delivered at ten times the length of the above, caused a very great stir and excitement and comparison of opinions.
I said to the ostler I'd give him half-a-crown for the gal as washes, as she introduced me to the lawyer.
There was a bright flush of pleasure in her cheek as she mounted to her place in the little cart, assisted by Joe Filmer, the ostler at the Ship, and folded her shawl about the living morsel that was all the world to her.
I were born and bred at Cheam, but I was ostler first in Chertsey, and then for six months at Twickenham.
I got the ostler to saddle and bride the gray mare, and mount her afore old Clutch's naked eyes.
Well, the ostler he trotted on till he came to a turn in the road, and then he went down a lane out o' sight.
The ostler of the Ship stumbled up the stairs and saluted the sick girl with cordiality and respect.
Then the ostler thrust forward a bottle that had been in his pocket.
That is the story which the ostler believes through and through.
On descending from the coach, the German with some difficulty made the ostlerunderstand that he wanted a post-chaise in a quarter of an hour; and then, without entering the house, he and his friend strolled to the arbour.
Philip; and the ostler was despatched to the house.
It was assumed that he was at the inn waiting for his "vale," like the ostler and the Kellner.
An oil lantern hung across the street, emitting a feeble light; the ostler had a horn lantern, wherewith he and the postillion adjusted the harness of the horses.
The servant-girl who brought out the glass, not being able to reach the lady, the ostler very imprudently left the horses' heads to do the polite.
Never for an instant did the idea cross our minds that such a highly superior ostler and chambermaid could be anything but acceptable to the good people of the inn.
When I was an ostler my unrazored chin passed without comment; but the moment I improve my condition I must shave every morning, or else be more miserable than ever I was in my former station.
The ground was wet; it had been drizzling for several hours, but a misty sun was now struggling up the sky, and Tom ostler foretold a fine day.
I will awaken the ostler and leave him in charge of the inn.
He accompanied theostler to the stable and saw the horse well rubbed and fed.
He went into the inn, and soon returned with a cup of wine, while an ostler brought a pail of water for the horse.
The ostler was a happy fellow, evidently; perhaps his master was better than he appeared.
The ostlerwas a good Catholic, and had a solid crown piece in his breeches.
Then when the first ostler had returned, Sergeant Blick started, and by half-past one eight waggons were disposed across the streets that led to the castle and not far from the men round the watch-fires.
Why, you would not compare a berth at a place like that with the situation of ostler at my inn, the first road-house in England!
I was not half so good an ostler as old Bill, who had never been presented with a silver currycomb, and I never expected to become so, therefore what chance had I?
Should I give up that situation, and remaining at the inn, become ostler under old Bill?
After a contest of one hour and a quarter, Ostler having broken a bone in his hand by a fall, was obliged to give in, and Cricknell was declared the victor.
A prize-fight took place at Thurton for 5 pounds a side, between Ostlerand Cricknell, well-known Norwich pugilists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ostler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
