Grooms

Examples

• They know we are poor, so it's no use pretending that we have grooms, buy three or four hats a season, and have things as easy and fine as they do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sir Percival himself dismissed the grooms and stablemen, sending them, with all the horses but one, to London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The horses are splendid, and the men, especially the grooms, ride well, but the women are stiff, and bounce, which isn't according to our rules. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They went around, one after the other, their heads down, the grooms leading them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I fancy them guarded by grooms of the chamber with flaming silver forks with which they prong all those who have not the right of the entree. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After breakfast, his two grooms rode up to the door with three horses: one of them was a delightfully quiet-looking lady's horse. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Edited by Jason