Brides' mates

Usage examples of grooms.

The grooms and the warder at the great gate she will trust, but it is the postern she feareth, because she thinketh an enemy might be secretly admitted there.

Here the men-at-arms were dismounting, horses were neighing, and grooms running about.

He gave the necessary commands to two grooms, and the lads, each the counterpart of the other, waited a few moments and then started toward the tower stairway, followed by the grooms bearing the huge dog between them on a stretcher.

He entered into conversation with the grooms, and let fall, in a loud voice, such a weight of opinions as must have crushed any intelligent mind to consider.

Eric had led him out of the city, but the grooms had successfully delayed him half an hour longer.

So thinking he bestrode the vicious beast which backed and plunged about the inn yard, and from which the grooms and the watching maids fled in all directions.

And one of the grooms who took the horses was the same vacant-faced, foolish fellow who had received the coin from Walter Skinner.

Whereat, somewhat crestfallen, he was fain to lead the horse away, the others having been already taken care of by other grooms who had no thought of the Isle of Axholme, and no hopeful expectation of coins.

But he did not miss him, for the landlord himself had come out into the yard to see him off, while all the grooms stood about, and two or three maids looked on.

And then the innkeeper said civilly that he and the grooms had meant no offence, but that the horse had certainly been stolen from the Swan two nights before.

He now came down, and the innkeeper, without a word, led the way to a private room, while the grooms exchanged glances.

Though Walter Skinner had commanded the innkeeper and the grooms to keep what he called his confidence on pain of his vengeance, what he had said flew abroad.

At the same moment of his arrival the innkeeper came back, and a little later the grooms began to straggle in.

I knew no good would come of your father allowing you to run wild among the grooms and the gardeners.

It would be a dull evening for them unless they could start up a dice game or a fight with the other grooms and servants abandoned to nearby taverns.