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Example sentences for "ostlers"

Lexicographically close words:
osteopathy; oster; osteria; ostium; ostler; ostracised; ostracism; ostracized; ostrich; ostriches
  1. I can't make nought of it," one of the ostlers said, climbing up into the coachman's seat.

  2. The astonishment of the ostlers at seeing the horses covered with lather, and coachbox tenanted only by two boys, behind whom a little white face now peered out, was extreme, and they were unable to get beyond an ejaculation of hallo!

  3. At that moment Pollux began to rear and kick, so that it took both the 'ostlers to hold him.

  4. As he climbed into his saddle in the stable-yard, the muttering ostlers standing round, and the yellow-flaring light of the lanthorns stretching fingers into the darkness, he could have wept for himself.

  5. As the steaming horses stopped within a few paces of the chariot, the gentleman seated in the latter saw one of the ostlers go up to the post-chaise and heard him say, 'Soon back, Jimmie?

  6. The waiters and ostlers of Scotch inns, prying about the door, eager to catch any word that fell from Burns, were doing unconscious reverence to the Heroic.

  7. This is beautiful: but still more beautiful that which Mr. Lockhart has recorded, which I have more than once alluded to, How the waiters and ostlers at inns would get out of bed, and come crowding to hear this man speak!

  8. Therefore the ostlers and servants began to sing; they marveled at the silence which reigned among those riding in front of them.

  9. In a moment there were heard the voices of the ostlers chasing the herd toward the camp.

  10. No hostelry so respectable that it could safely give warranty for its ostlers without-doors and its servants within.

  11. I have three ostlers now, which is quite enough, and all I can afford to pay; but I suppose I can find enough for a boy to do about the house and the stable.

  12. Harry did take his place; and the ostlers declared that, in everything but cleaning the horses, he made good his place.

  13. Over the counting room was an apartment in which two of the ostlers slept.

  14. The ostlers took their meals at the house of Major Phillips, which stood at one side of the stable yard.

  15. The ostlers laughed at him when he took out his little Bible, before he went to bed, to drink of the waters of life.

  16. Meanwhile, the ostlers had brought forward the good charger.

  17. The fresh team were led jingling and prancing out of the yard, the ostlers running beside them.

  18. His Lordship, as he watches the 'ostlers rubbing down the restored Homing Nell, and confers with Mr. Biggs as to the plunder and the meting out of justice.

  19. During a halt overhearing the coarse language of the ostlers and the tipplers of the roadside pot-house: and besieged with beggars exposing their horrible mutilations.

  20. The coachman gathers up his reins and shakes squarely down into his seat; the ostlers step back.

  21. Mr. Overton was waiting at the chaise-door, the boys were ready mounted, and a few ostlers and stable nondescripts were standing round to witness the departure of ‘the mad gentleman.

  22. He gave instructions to the ostlers who rode them to wait outside the inns named till the gentlemen called for them.

  23. So without more ado we gave our horses to the ostlers at an inn.

  24. A swarm of ostlers and grooms had rushed out to us, and my uncle, throwing down the reins, gathered Fidelio on his cushion from under the seat.

  25. It was a large room with a wooden floor and an open square in the ceiling, which was fringed with the heads of the ostlers and stable boys who were looking down from the harness-room above.

  26. He next insisted that the servants should draw up in separate bodies, the attendants of each master in a distinct line, and then made the ostlers carry their lanterns along the face of each.

  27. Both the ostlers had gone out to see a procession of grey friars; and the bit and bridle were not to be found.

  28. This from Milo of Crotona, portentous of brow and stern of eye, as he overlooked the ostlers who were busily unbuckling straps and traces.

  29. I looked at him anxiously when we stopped to change, but I knew by his yet graver face as he stood watching the ostlers that he had heard nothing.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ostlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.