Grooms

There one of the grooms from the Court will meet you, and drive you to the house. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The weddings, which entitled the grooms, often already married with families back home, to stay in the UK, were conducted by Brown usually without the knowledge of his congregation or church wardens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“True — ay — your horses — yes — I will call the grooms”; and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rang again: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The grooms were the first he saw, coming out to water their horses; and he asked, in so distressful a manner, what was become of Pamela, that they thought him crazy: and said, Why, what have you to do with Pamela, old fellow? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Circe, enrag'd to be so affronted, had recourse to revenge, and calling the grooms that belong'd to the house, made them give me a warming; nor was she satisfi'd with this, but calling all the servant-wenches, and meanest of the house, she made 'em spit upon me. ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

As they dismounted the porter loudly called grooms to lead the horses into the stable and have them relieved of their burdens, but Sir Richard would not allow it, and left Little John to watch over them at the abbey portal. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. ❋ Unknown (1884)

All the dogs of his farm-yards formed a pack of hounds at need; his grooms were his huntsmen; and the curate of the village was his grand almoner. ❋ 1694-1778 Voltaire (1736)

The accounts turned out to be a hoax, but not before they caused a small scandal back on the mainland—particularly among the fiancées that several new "grooms" had left behind. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The introduction of tobacco from the colony of Virginia was followed soon after by a reduction of price that led to more frequent use among the poorer classes, such as grooms and hangers on at taverns and ale-houses, who are alluded to in Rich's "Honestie of this Age": ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

My other sister, the Duchess of Parma, is equally scientific in breaking-in horses; for she is constantly in the stables with her grooms, by which she 'grooms' a pretty sum yearly in buying, selling, and breaking-in; while the simpleton, her husband, is ringing the bells with the Friars of Colorno to call his good subjects to Mass. ❋ Various (N/A)

One lay on the floor with a coarse kerchief, such as grooms wear, knotted round his throat. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

So he took little Alric's leathern belt, such as grooms wear, and bound it round his hand to guard the flesh, and he struck the door where the leaves joined in the middle, once and twice and three times, and it began to open inward, so that they could see the iron bolt bent half double. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The vast majority of gays don't want to get married but they would use the opportunity to import mail order "grooms" for money. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An unhealthy relationship initiated by a sex offender may begin as a mentor or friend relationship as the offender "grooms" the child for intimate behaviors. ❋ Rev. Debra Haffner (2010)

Two other "WTO brides" walked beside "grooms" with suits carrying the logos of food and drugs multinationals like Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Roche, Pfizer, Novartis and Bayer.