If the jockey is a syce's son who cannot speak seven words of English, he may be rejected."

I was once a syce,' he boasted, in his usual endearing fashion.

When he rode up withhis syce in attendance his greeting was cool.

When she appeared in her rickshaw he dismounted, and gave the reins to his syce.

She resisted it to the end, and presently beckoned to the syce, who came up leading the pony.

The syce was already walking the saddled horses.

We managed to get the ponies loose in time, and the syce swam the whole lot of them off to the nearest rising ground.

Soon they were out of earshot of where Mintaka was tending the horses like a syce.

Syce ran with it.

What he did was to turn and ask the syce following if he had loosened the Turk's saddle-girths. '

We engaged a third syce called Makonnen; he turned out to be a quarrelsome intriguer and we eventually got rid of him.

Our ponies with Habta Wold, the syce who accompanied us, were always waiting for us as we finished breakfast.

He replied, "O beautiful lady, how should the syce have access to thee, and how should he share in thee with me?"

Many words joined imperial English, but faded as the empire did: the sepoy, the Indian soldier; the syce, the groom, of his British officer.

She was an eight-time winner of the Syce Cup, a trophy for the women's sailing champion of Long Island Sound.

Fortunately the Gwadlipichee subsides as rapidly as it rises, and just before dawn the syce came splashing back, with the ponies only fetlock deep in water.

Attendant Syce, Litter Bearers, Heralds, Trumpeters, etc.

Behind them there was the sound of bullock-carts tearing free: the syce stood hovering to say the way was clear, the press extremely great and the horses in a muck-sweat.

Still I found nothing to say, I could only put my arm in hers and walk with her to the edge of the veranda where the syce was holding her horse.

The lady looked out as the ponies galloped up to the first changing-place, and, seeing a saddled horse held by a syce, cramped herself a little into one corner to make room.

The single female flower is at the center, with an elevated ovary pendant on a long stalk, which when fertalized and mature, bears a capsule fruit, and so the name "syce" ("fig").

Naro Mahadeo early took a keen interest in the cavalry horses of the general, and one day persuaded a syce to allow him to ride a fiery war horse to the river to drink water.

This stolen ride was observed by the alert Santaji, who roundly scolded the syce, but also began to take a deep interest in the prodigal boy, who rode so well without any formal a training.

After this we sat awhile till the rest of the grooms came up, each leading a mare, and seeing me with their fellow syce, questioned me of my case, and I repeated my story to them.

We were also lucky enough to find Goutama, whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914.