A warm smell of stables blew in their faces as the two men tiptoed into the manure-littered farmyard.
Stumbling on each others' heels they climbed up into a dark loft, where the air was heavy with the smell of hay and with an acridity of cow manure from the stables below.
A groom came across from the stables and joined him.
Recently, however, modern stables had been built on the other side of the road, and it had become the custom to mount the causeway and enter the Castle on foot.
A man came running out from the stables with a lantern; a light flashed in the doorway of the Castle.
This minister was fond of proverbs and he told me pertinently that one did not seek to save the stables when the house was on fire.
Hence the small reinforcements for the stables of Canada.
But I've sent for ye to say that ye'd best say ye were down at the stables then, and I'll back ye out.
She saw him drink more spirit, and then he left the room, going toward the stables with a lowering brow and an angry heart.
Yes," said Henderson, and then he turned away, and went whistling out of the stables with his hands in his pockets.
When he reached the stables he found the groom smoking in the yard.
Say ye were on yer way to the stables when Ben met ye.
Mr. Churchill, who was a man with a keen eye to a bargain, immediately led John away to inspect his stables and paddocks.
He was insolent and overbearing, and bought horses and sold them, often actually using the stables at Stourton for his own purposes.
He had to pass the stables on his way, and as he did so he saw they were fully lighted.
A horse, hooded and sheeted to his ears, left Yale's stables and was taken, very unwillingly, into the Civil Lines.
His own advantage over other bidders was in his living on the spot, with his stables and teams near at hand.
Grogan's house and stables lay just over the brow of this hill, in a little hollow.
They had cut the grain and pulse without waiting for their maturity, the roots of which were even torn out of the ground: the houses and stables were empty.
As we had been together for about an hour and had got no further than the bar, I proposed that we go to his stables and see the horses, for I was always fond of good stock.
Leonard is well known, having kept stables in New Orleans and Cincinnati for many years.
The most unpleasant of all Hercules's labors was the cleaning of the stables where Augeas, king of Elis, kept his herd of a thousand oxen.
Not far from the stables flowed two rivers, the Peneus and Alpheus, and these Hercules turned out of their courses and made them rush through the filthy building until every part of the stables of Augeas was washed perfectly clean.
These stables had not been cleaned for thirty years; and when Hercules caught one glimpse of the filth within them, he felt that this was too degrading a task for him to undertake.
That is a capital idea, Geoffrey, and I will have a talk with the man as soon as we get back; for if he is not still there, I am sure to be able to learn from some of the men about the stables where to find him.
In rear were the stables and granaries, the butts and tennis-court, beyond which was the court of the tournaments.
Dissipated stablemen, such as those whom we saw last century deserting their English stables under the direction of the Duc de Chartres to come over here and prepare the Revolution.
Our stables were vast, and filled with expensive horses of which my father was very fond and very proud.
From morning stables at seven until evening stables at six, each hour held its duty, for in that regular, clock-marked life, recreation was counted a duty just as surely as were the daily drills.
When they aren't fighting, they do sentry and stables and things.
The whole household knew it a moment later--the maids, the men at the stables and the corral.
There was no one to put up his horse, and he drove her into the stables and fed her and spread her bed while Honora watched what he and she had laughingly termed "the outposts.
He pointed toward the stables and drew the colonel after him; but the colonel held back.
It appealed to him as being so rich an idea that the stables rang with his laughter.
Seven large brick buildings were destroyed, and some frames were burned, between the stables and the public square.
The horses in the stables bore only partial riders.
She and Marie Louise went about in breeches and shirts and worked like hostlers around the stables and in the paddocks, breaking colts and mucking out stalls.
There was not a housemaid about the rooms or a groom in the stables who did not know how terrible a reprobate their master had been.
It's the same, as far as the stablesare concerned.
And then, when it was dusk within the house, he went out, and passed through the stables and roamed about the gardens till the evening had altogether set in, and black night had come upon him.
A dozen footmen belonged partly to the house and partly to the stables and received 2 to 6 pounds yearly.
The best kinds of stables are large and lofty, well ventilated and drained, smoothly paved, and well provided with means for admitting the direct sunlight.
No gallies have been built here for a great many years, and the dock is now converted into stables for the Grand Duke's Horse Guards.
They were fed on any coarse food that could be picked up, and were lodged for the night in sheds and stables if any could be found; if not, under the sky.
The premises about the house were kept neat and attractive, and Mr. Day had somehow found the money to paint the house that spring, while the stables and other outbuildings looked much neater than when Janice had first seen them.
And so the horse was sent to the stables of the White Horse Cellar, in Piccadilly, and left there at my order.
And of horsemen whom the King pays he has six thousand, and all of them are on the stables establishment (?
It is within the enclosure of the royal palace, and close to the rear of the elephant stables still standing.
In his stables he had 400 horses of Arabia and Persia, exclusive of those-of mixed breed foaled in India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
