What is "syce"

Usage examples of "syce".

In fact the memsahib had saddled her horse and gone out somewhere, ordering the syce to accompany her on one of the pack horses.

The syce was reluctant to accompany her at first and when they approached the entrance to the temple, a cave behind the waterfall, he was trembling with fear.

It had rained during the night and Helen noticed, with relief, that the syce was driving very carefully.

When she looked out over the sides of the track, she saw the dangerous torrent below and was glad the syce had the horses well in hand.

What had they done to the poor syce, she wondered, for this driver of the phaeton was surely not her careful servant.

Just think, Rosita, if the relief guard riding to the Residency had not found the half-stangled syce in time for us to learn of her kidnap and the location of the secret Temple of Kali, which they had visited previously.

Sir George and Joe set off together in the carriage, two attendant aides-de-camp on horseback, two syce on the box and one man running in front with a lantern.

We managed to get the ponies loose in time, and the syce swam the whole lot of them off to the nearest rising ground.

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.

Malay syce with difficulty got it along by dragging it, and we had to walk up every hill in the fierce heat of a tropic noon.

As he had no syce with him he got down to light the trap-lamps and jumped in and drove on again very cheerily.

Behind them there was the sound of bullock-carts tearing free: the syce stood hovering to say the way was clear, the press extremely great and the horses in a muck-sweat.

T Ford in a haze of carbon monoxide rattled its way with a grinding of gears across the parade ground and a syce was to be seen applying the starting handle to the polished brass nose of a Morris Cowley.

As they drew into the Drummond compound, a syce ran up to take the horses and a bearer hurried to Nancy with a note on a silver tray.

As the syces were putting the rugs and clothing on the polo ponies, and loitering about the ground after the game, the watching natives drew near and advised them to be off home at once, for that there was going to be a fight.