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Usage examples of "hostlers".
He attended to the paying of the station-keepers, hostlers, drivers and blacksmiths, and discharged them whenever he chose.
Hanshiro beckoned to the hostlers who were bringing three horses from the stable next door.
Hanshiro and Kasane stopped only to visit the wayside privies, change hostlers in Ishiyakushi and Kameyama, and buy food to eat as they rode.
Grooms and hostlers were busy with their tasks, currying horses and checking hooves.
The hostlers unfolded curious shaggy ponchos with slits that left their bare arms free.
The hostlers, honest traders once welcome throughout the empire, were war refugees, as were many other folk.
The negative news disheartened the hostlers, who quietly posted guards.
The hostlers and station-keepers treated the really powerful conductor of the coach merely with the best of what was their idea of civility, but the driver was the only being they bowed down to and worshipped.
We could not eat, and there was no conversation among the hostlers and herdsmen--we all sat at the same board.