Fortunately the syce was a handy lad, for he not only guided us but held me from tumbling out of the saddle; I don't remember much of the journey except that it lasted for ages, and then we were among trees, with the hooves padding on grass, the syce was shaking my arm, and there ahead was the pavilion, half-hidden by the foliage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At last one day the princess happened to go on to the roof and looking down at the stables saw and thought she recognised her husband; then she leaned over and listened till she heard his voice and at that she was sure that it was he, so she hastened to the Raja and begged to be allowed to meet her husband, and the Raja sent to call the syce with the name which the princess had given but no one came, for the prince would not reveal himself. ❋ Cecil Henry Bompas (N/A)
By jove, I was feeling prime; I dandied myself up in no time, rinsed my face to clear some of the booze away, and was out champing on the verandah as the syce brought my pony round. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I had intended to pass the next day looking about the city, perhaps having a discreet word with Carshore the Collector and the colonel of the sepoys, but as the syce* (* Groom.) was bringing round my pony to the dak-bungalow, up comes Skene in a flurry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I took a couple of packages from my trunk, stowed them in my saddle-bag, waved to Skene, and trotted off to meet royalty, with only the syce to show me the way. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I must have been drunker than I felt, for it took me three shots to mount, and then, with a wave to Ilderim, who was glowering doubtfully from the verandah, I trotted off, with the syce scrambling up behind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I didn't want the syce spying, so I slid down and told him to wait, and then I pushed on. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After that, the pony could not, or would not, go; and the 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. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
All you had to do was to hand over all your uniform and clothes to the dressing boy, your ponies to the syce, and your money to the butler, and you need never trouble any more. ❋ WINSTON CHURCHILL (2003)
I had to buy two good horses, engage a military syce groom, and complete my martial wardrobe in many particulars. ❋ WINSTON CHURCHILL (2003)
Verrall had owned her two years, and till this moment he had never once allowed anyone else to mount her, not even the syce. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Soon they were out of earshot of where Mintaka was tending the horses like a syce. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
That was apparent from the first, and later, under cross-examination, her syce revealed that this had for some time been her practice, two or three times a week. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
'I was once a syce,' he boasted, in his usual endearing fashion. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
