Cars once displaced lots of coachmen and stable boys but created many more new jobs laying out highways and attending service stations.
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One of the writers of the libretto was E.M. Forster, no stranger to gay literature and the closet (read "Maurice," intentionally published after his death, for stable boys climbing through young men's bedroom windows).
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After a fairly conventional Star Wars shot of the battle-scarred heroes regrouping on the main deck of the Millennium Falcon — the kind of image that would ordinarily lead directly to John Williams' rousing exit theme — Johnson cuts back to Canto Bight, where the impoverished, oppressed stable boys and girls are already sharing the legend of how Luke Skywalker returned to the fray to stall the First Order and buy his friends time to escape.
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Somerset, pp. 5–6. The new queen had a larger staff of servants than Catherine. There were more than 250 servants to tend to her personal needs, from priests to stable-boys, and more than 60 maids-of- honour who served her and accompanied her to social events. She also employed several priests who acted as her confessors, chaplains, and religious advisers.
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They and their horses headed the procession followed by farmers, grooms, and stable boys, all leading their animals to be blessed. The village fair that ended the religious procession was celebrated by various games, music, and feasting, followed by a competition to ride the carthorses bareback. The winner entered the church on bareback to receive a hat made of roses from the parish pastor.
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Smith convinces Howard to acquire a colt, "Seabiscuit", who comes from noted lineage but had been deemed "incorrigible" by past handlers. Smith has difficulty finding a jockey able to handle Seabiscuit's temperament. After witnessing Pollard brawling with other stable boys, Smith recognizes him as a kindred spirit to the feisty horse and hires Pollard as Seabiscuit's jockey. Seabiscuit and Pollard become close, and they begin to race together.
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The court dwarfs were normally not given wages but only clothing, food and room: however, in individual cases some of them, such as the African court dwarf Carl Ulrich, could be given schooling and training in a proper occupation and formally employed as chamber servants or stable boys and thus given proper wages,Fabian Persson (1999). Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721. Lund: Wallin & Dalholm.
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When Mardi Gras came, he wore the wig. The king took him for a king's son, but Jean admitted to being his stable boy, and the king took the wig. The other stable boys told the king that Jean said he could marry King Fortunatus's daughter, and the king demanded that Jean bring her. Jean went to his horse in the forest, and it told him to get three ships, with beef, millet, and oats.
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Duchesne was himself using a discovery made earlier by Arab stable boys, who used molds to cure sores on horses. He did not claim that the mold contained any antibacterial substance, only that the mold somehow protected the animals. The penicillin isolated by Fleming does not cure typhoid and so it remains unknown which substance might have been responsible for Duchesne's cure. In Belgium in 1920, Andre Gratia and Sara Dath observed a fungal contamination in one of their Staphylococcus aureus cultures that was inhibiting the growth of the bacterium.
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Little is known about her father (except that he had the same magic that Beka herself carries), but Beka's mother was an herbalist before she died of lung cancer, leaving Beka the oldest of five children. Beka has two younger sisters and two younger brothers, named (oldest to youngest) Diona, Lorine, Willes, and Nilo, respectively. All of her siblings live in Lord Gershom's house and serve as ladies-in-waiting, seamstresses, couriers, or stable-boys. Beka doesn't have a close relationship with her sisters due to their loyalty to Lord Gershom's wife—Lady Teodorie—who disapproves of Beka's career.
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The cars were housed in the stable block, along with the hunters and other horses, and attached were three rooms for the chauffeurs. Within the thatched stable block was a house for the head groom and rooms for the stable boys. In total, Horwood House had a staff of some fifty people, including a butler, footman, lead parlour maid, assistant parlour maid, cook, kitchen maid, three under maids, between maid, two ladies maids, chauffeurs, electrician, farm bailiff and all the farm staff. There was a bothy next to the head gardener’s house that housed five improver gardeners.
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During the race Papyrus was "struck into" by another horse and returned bleeding freely from several cuts to his legs, one of which narrowly missed a tendon. Immediately after the St Leger, Papyrus was sent to the United States for his previously arranged match race with Zev. He was shipped by ocean vessel with his own special feed mix, his stablemate Bargold, his stable cat, two stable boys, his trainer, and his jockey, Steve Donoghue. Despite these special arrangements many British commentators felt that the race was futile, with the effects of the sea-voyage and the change in environment making Papyrus's task almost impossible.
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John Mytton, Esquire, Halston, Salop, by William Giller after William Webb, 1841 Mytton riding his bear, by Henry Alken, 1837 Mytton had hunted foxes with his own pack of hounds from the age of ten and went hunting in any kind of weather. His usual winter gear was a light jacket, thin shoes, linen trousers and silk stockings, but in the thrill of the chase he sometimes stripped off and continued the hunt naked, even through snow drifts and rivers in full spate. He also continued hunting despite being unseated and sustaining broken ribs -"unmurmuring when every jar was an agony", and sometimes led his stable boys on rat hunts, each stable boy being equipped with ice skates. He had a wardrobe consisting of 150 pairs of hunting breeches, 700 pairs of handmade hunting boots, 1,000 hats and some 3,000 shirts.
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Drawing on his experiences as a jockey and his intimate knowledge > of the racetrack crowd — from aristocratic owners to Cockney stable boys — > the novel contained all the elements that readers would come to relish from > a Dick Francis thriller. There was the pounding excitement of a race, the > aura of the gentry at play, the sweaty smells from the stables out back, an > appreciation for the regal beauty and unique personality of a thoroughbred — > and enough sadistic violence to man and beast to satisfy the bloodthirsty. Fred Glueckstein, in Of Men, Women and Horses, wrote, "During the course of York's adventures, one can identify in Francis's work the elements that would precede his future success: a lone hero fighting villains with honor, courage, and determination; skilled plotting; action and suspense, and classic scenes of equestrian fiction." Dead Cert is included in the "fiction core list" in Carol Alabaster's book Developing an Outstanding Core Collection: A Guide for Libraries by Carol Alabaster (2002).
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In gratitude to the racecourse it was agreed that as the new clubhouse would only be used during the winter, beds would be brought in during the summer for the stable boys and jockeys. Never ones to miss a trick and with due democracy the players wives were volunteered to run the hostel with all moneys going into the rugby club's funds. The new ground was to be at Green Lane on farmland owned by Lord Zetland, the contacts that we had made through Dr. Ian Mackinlay and others gave us this opportunity to grow. Willie Wardman farmed the land, Willie remained a member and good friend to many at the club until his death. In 1959 the land was bought and prepared, in 1961 the first games were played at green lane however for the next two years the old club continued to be used for both changing and the entertainment of our guests.
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