Under the forecastle fifteen ponies close side by side, seven one side, eight the other, heads together and groom betweenswaying, swaying continually to the plunging, irregular motion.

He had to light fires, clean windows, groom horses, and make himself generally useful.

He determined to ride forth in quest; and with a groom laden with all sorts of cloaks for her protection from the storm, that now raged furiously, started, feeling naught but the pain at his heart.

To stimulate the knights to greater efforts by a view of the promised prize, the emperor bade a groom lead forth the renowned steed.

In the cool early mornings, when the heavy night dews still lie glittering on the grass, when the cobwebs seem strung with pearls, and faint lines of soft fleecy mist lie in the hollows by the watercourses; long ere the hot, fiery sun has left his crimson bed behind the cold grey horizon, we are out on our favourite horse, the wiry, long-limbed syce or groom trotting along behind us.