What is "stableboys"

Usage examples of "stableboys".

If some of the stableboys or anyone else had ducked in here for private merrymaking, there would be the sound of voices and giggling.

Dain jogged through the rain, squinting, his shoulders hunched up, he saw the Thirst stableboys standing in the doorway, gawking and chewing straws.

All the workers, from the sweeps to the stableboys to the milkmaids to the cheese-makers and so on, sat and feasted together, clinking their brass cups in toasts, tossing bones to the dogs, laughing and jesting in good fellowship.

Careless stableboys sometimes abandoned half-eaten apples or tossed the cores away.

The stableboys drew lots and pulled off their tunics for wrestling, until they were sweaty and winded from their efforts.

Rupert had delegated his chauffeur and two of the stableboys to take them to Southampton in three cars with what little luggage they still had.

Where the hawk in the deserted west tower and the rodents that made their nests in the courtyards below heard only the wind and the stirrings of dead grasses as they rasped against the weathered stones, the two men heard music drifting lazily from the inner keep, the voices of stableboys and maids gossiping in the courtyard, horses stamping in the stables, the creak of the wooden pulley as water was drawn from the well, and the hundred other sounds of an occupied keep.