"Probably one of the inn servants, because he called the ostler by name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and to tell him to get a post-chaise and four immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference

Sir Thomas took a few steps closer to the terrified ostler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

Sam said, lowering a relieved ostler all the way to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

"Not that I know of, sir," the ostler said, turning to his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

An ostler led his horse to the stables, and he entered the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Admiral] Reference

In another minute the ostler stood beside the once more disguised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

The head ostler had not been on duty last night after nine o'clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

Charles Wesley -- and told him the gossip detailed to him by the ostler.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

The ostler turned deadly pale, but in a moment the Colonel dispelled his alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

On arriving at the inn, he calmly dismounted, and called upon the ostler by name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

While these things were going on, the bandy-legged ostler entered, in manifest alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

Scarcely five minutes had elapsed, when the ostler rushed into the room, pale as death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference

"Never seen him afore, sir," returned the unabashed ostler, with an air of perfect candour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

'The ostler here, who brings this message to thee, is in our confidence, and may be trusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

As a boy Thomas Keats had come to London and found a situation as ostler in some livery stable.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Then the ostler at Chelsea, and his wife, are called to prove, that he was at a late hour in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference

"The old man is a trifle out of sorts," the ostler ventured to remark, as they entered the yard together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

The ostler had played his little game, and, having sheltered his companion, he now anxiously awaited the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

He was clever and steady, and before he was twenty had risen to be head ostler and married his master's daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

"Take care of yourself, sir," returned the ostler as he snatched up the pitchfork and began to toss the hay about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

Carlisle, I enquired of the ostler in a stable if he knew of any one who wished to hire a house servant or coachman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

The ostler, his grin frozen to his face, his feet dangling a few inches from the ground, found silence his best defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

"You are right," Bartholomew said, allowing himself one regretful look at the ostler before hurrying back to the carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

Mitford lifted her to the ground before turning with her to speak to the ostler who had come forward to see to the horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

"Oh, Lordy, yes," the ostler at the inn said with a look of gloom at the giant who vaulted down from the seat to confront him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

London and South-western Railway was opened, the old ostler cut his throat in sheer despair, for Othello's occupation was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

"There will be a goodly company to-day, my lord," exclaimed the ostler, as he drew his head in after a prolonged look round the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

"Halloa," shouted the ostler, as he stamped upon the floor with his fork, to convey the impression that he was busily engaged, at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

Faith, in those thrice happy days, every henchman could whistle to him his shabby poet, and every ostler hold court in the stable, with a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference