They swung into the bungalow, and Finnerty sent the watchman to have a syce bring "Phyu," adding that if there was delay a most proper beating would eventuate.
Wishing to keep this meeting secret, he's left the syce at home and tied the pony to a tree up there somewhere; the shot probably frightened it.
Back around the turn I felt the dogcart tip up and knew the syce had jumped down, as I thought, to run ahead to see that the road was clear at this narrow turn.
Now it is evident that if the sycecan extort two pice from you for repairs and get the work done for five pies, one clear pie will adhere to his glutinous palm.
How to obviate this result is indeed the main problem which the syce presents, and many are the ways in vogue of trying to solve it.
And the syce is happy; but his happiness needs constant sustenance.
All I maintain is that there is no hypothesis which will satisfactorily explain all the facts, unless you admit the general principle that the sycederives advantage of some kind from the manipulation of the smallest copper coin.
You will never have respite from payments while an active- minded syce remains on your staff.
They all said they knew nothing of it, but this afternoon I discovered that a syce from the lines had gone up to the room for my saddlery about an hour before the affair and moved the tins.
No harm occurred except the heavy sniping has knocked out some poor horses and wounded a syce and spoiled some more palms.
To-day he had allowed his syce to drive him along the winding roads of the suburbs, heedless whither he was being carried.
When her landau appeared next forenoon to take her for a round of visits, she told the syce to drive her instead to Waller's Stables, where the hire of the required carriages was speedily arranged.
I called my syce to stop, and keeping my eye on the spot where the kite had dropped its booty, I picked up this.
At length he summoned his office-bandy, and at that unwonted hour ordered the sleepy syce to light the lamps, and drove off to town, leaving his wife in tears.
The hired bandy, its syce arrayed in an out-at-the-elbows blue tunic and turban, arrived duly one afternoon at the door of the house in Salamander Street.
He alighted, and directed hissyce to follow while he walked along the road.
The syce had instinctively drawn behind the nearest boulder, and had dismounted.
The third day he marched deliberately up past the syce to take his place near me.
In the rear seat were McMillan and myself, while a small black syce perched precariously behind.
The syce brought out his horse, as soon as he saw Dick approaching.
Tell the syce I shall come for my horse in a few minutes.
A shout brought his native servant, and another shout was echoed along the ship and soon sent his syce racing towards him.
Geoff turned at once, and, looking towards the strand where Sultan was being exercised, signalled to his syce to bring him along immediately.
In the distance he caught sight of his own fine Arab, of Sultan, and, signalling wildly with his hands, managed to attract the attention of the syce in charge of him.
The latter came to me afterwards and said that just as it was beginning to get dusk he went to look into the stable, as the syce had called him.
One day, just before sunset, after I had returned, the syce came out of the stable, which was under the room I occupied, and called one of the other servants.
By-and-bye, the Syce (the Burma policeman) summoned up courage and said he thought he could shoot.
Fortunately the Gwadlipichee subsides as rapidly as it rises, and just before dawn the syce came splashing back, with the ponies only fetlock deep in water.
We managed to get the ponies loose in time, and the syce swam the whole lot of them off to the nearest rising ground.
His voice was lowered for the benefit of the syce balanced on the back seat, but it was no less vibrant with bitterness.
Tell thesyce to bring round the cart, will you, Tristram?
A syce ran out to meet them and caught the reins, and a minute later Anne Boucicault had been lifted gently to the ground.
Tell the syce to have the best horse in the stable saddled by daybreak," she said.
A syce leading a horse by the bridle came out of the shadow.
She ordered the syce to wait for her, and a moment later she was kneeling in her old place, to the right of the pathetic altar, thanking God for the light that had been granted her.
I've a faithful syce waiting at the bridge-head five miles up.
Hereupon he arose and did with her as before, leading her to the garden, and the two, Syce and dame, ceased not to be after this fashion for three days solacing themselves and making merry and tasting of love-liesse.
Do thou cry out to the Syce that he fetch me hither an ass and accompany me to the house of my mother, wherein I shall lie some three nights after the fashion of folk.
My syce pats, and speaks soothingly to the trembling horse, while my peon with excited fingers fumbles at the straps of my gun-case.
My syce and pony would then walk slowly by the edges of the fields, and when the syce saw a peafowl ahead, making for the jungle, he would shout and try to make it rise.
I was sinking at every movement up to the knees, when the syce came to my rescue, and took charge of the horse.
The syce holds the horse firmly by the head, and as we leave the bank, we can distinctly see the outline of some large animal, standing out a dark bulky mass against the skyline.
But the country here is so wild, the river takes such erratic courses during the annual floods, and the district is so secluded and so seldom visited by Europeans or factory servants, that mysyce had evidently lost his way.
My spare horse had come on from the ghat, the syce had told them I was coming, and they had been indulging in all sorts of speculations over my non-arrival.
So agile did he become, that no name among the syce of Egypt was more renowned than that of Mahmoud.
One of the most novel and interesting sights which attracts the traveller's attention when he first arrives in Egypt is the syce running before the horses as they go through the narrow, closely packed streets.
The syce carried back the silk hat to Shere Ali's smart trap, and Shere Ali drove home in his helmet.
Shere Ali had come to the races wearing a sun-helmet, and, as the fashion is amongst the Europeans in Calcutta, hissyce carried a silk hat for Shere Ali to take in exchange for his helmet when the sun went down.
Ralston's horse was waiting, with a scarlet-clad syce at its head.
His syce was waiting for him outside the railings.
After this, we sat awhile, till the rest of the grooms came up, each leading a mare, and seeing me with their fellow Syce questioned me of my case, and I repeated my story to them.
Her horse was impatient, got his head round, and, as the syce approached, backed over the edge of the road.
She dropped something, stopped, and called a syceto pick it up.
What he did was to turn and ask the syce following if he had loosened the Turk's saddle-girths.
Still I found nothing to say, I could only put my arm in hers and walk with her to the edge of the veranda where the syce was holding her horse.
A syce ran to hold his horse from which he flung himself, and then the brothers saw he had a broad grin on his face and seemed immensely amused.
The syce had run all the way back, and told his master that some Englishmen had been attacked by the Dacoits, and that a young sahib had only just escaped being carried away by Hari Rām himself.
Tell Miss Sahiba's syce to go with you, he knows the place.
The following morning when they started, Frank Lindsay and Mr. Macgregor rode foremost, a syce running before them.
After a short time the conveyance drew up before a bungalow, and the syce sprang to the ground.
A syce in white stood at the head of a Burmah pony harnessed to a varnished two-wheel cart; and the whole thing waiting by the curb seemed no bigger than a child's toy forgotten under the soaring trees.
The pony plunged--the syce skipped out of the way.
The driver lay extended on the top of it, asleep, the syce squatted beneath the horse's nose and fed it perfunctorily with hay from a bundle tied under the vehicle behind.
The driver was certainly very drunk; his whip circled perpetually above his head; the syce clinging behind was stiff with terror, and fell off like a bundle of rags.
And I came to Bithoor, and became a syce, and I have been a syce ever since.
I had a syceor groom who passed by the name of Lal Biro.
The syce in an instant had the reins of the bridle round the pony's neck, and would have held him fast had not he been lifted off his feet by the latter's rearing up.
At last my pony with his syce and the missing kit arrived, and I was enabled to start for Gnatong the next day.
We left my syce in ambush just outside the defile, but this proved unnecessary; for the pony, now quite anxious about being left behind, pushed his way in ahead of the last mounted infantryman, so that at last we had him in a trap.
Then my pony who had come with me had to be despatched with the syce on two double marches to the railway terminus.
As he uttered the last word the syce darted back, and the horse went off at a quick walk down the side of the riding-school, along the end, right down the other side and bottom, and back to where the three were standing.
Here, run that trooper to the stables," he cried to the syce waiting.
The syce clapped the saddle on the horse again, and walked it away to the stables; and, after a word or two from the sergeant, the two officers marched back to quarters.
For the next moment the fellow had gone down heavily, his head striking against a stone, and then he rolled over and lay still, with the syce standing close by looking on.
He came and worked as a syce all that time, so that he might learn all about the drilling and training of the guns.
Brace glanced at me as I was thinking of the handsome, patient syce at the barracks, and the treatment I had often seen him meet with; and then, as if reading my thoughts, he turned away with a look of despair.
Yes, sahib," said the syce softly, for I had recognised Barton's groom.
I had to thrash my new syce this morning to bring him to his senses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
