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    Use "livery" in a sentence

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    livery


    1. For eleven of those years, White Feathers had spent quite a bit of time up at James Connor's livery stable when other family matters weren't pressing


    2. This all happened a year and a bit before the twins were born to George and Belle, and White Feathers at once began helping the new father care for his son while James also kept up his livery stable business


    3. Belle mentioned his abilities and interest to Mandy, so Mandy dropped round to James at the livery one afternoon


    4. Connor, I have lost an assistant chef to a restaurant in Sacramento and am now short-handed; would you consider allowing Jameson to help out on weeknights and the odd weekend in my kitchens?” She inquired tactfully of the Livery proprietor


    5. Jameson's father was about his usual routine at the livery on as normal a day as any that passed in the little village


    6. Titania then split her efforts between her duties at the Lodges and chores at the livery helping her Great-uncle when Jameson was in the kitchens


    7. And for Titania's part, her assistance to White Feathers opened her eyes to the far reaching impact of a village's livery stable


    8. The Summer Season's tourist trade impacted the livery in every way, from the numbers of horses kept available rather than pastured and the space available for seasonal boarding, up to the obvious, that is: someone who knew both what they were doing and the current state of the livery to interact with the public at large


    9. Jameson was, by inherited nature, meticulous and thorough, both from his life in the livery and from having been under the tutelage of White Feathers near from birth


    10. The carriage occupants were too shaken to help themselves, so it fell to George and Jameson, Belle, Titania and Hipolyta to send for the doctor, rescue the driver and passengers from their now very crumpled carriage, extricate the horses from their harnesses, right the nearly overturned carriage, remove the damaged carriage and still unhurt horse to the livery and lead away the injured horse

    11. Titania was returning from the livery stables after putting out fodder and watering the resident beasts; Hipolyta was sitting in front of the Mercantile enjoying the evening breeze while finishing the weekly logs, and Jameson was soon to leave the kitchens for the day


    12. Titania and Jameson herded the horses not required for off-season commerce up into the pastures owned by the livery for this very purpose


    13. White Feathers found that the head of one of those families, Melvin Pierce, a nice fellow with a pair of roan geldings stabled at the livery, had a real knack for husbandry and a serviceable business sense


    14. His wife was with their second child and he made sure that Melvin's time at the livery was well compensated


    15. He discussed the matter with Jameson as if with a business partner, and of course to test the depths of Jameson's attachment to the livery in memory of his father


    16. The slack made at the Livery, as a result, was filled by Mr


    17. been reckoned a very moderate price of wheat, since it required a particular statute to oblige servants to accept of it in exchange for their usual livery of provisions ; and it had been reckoned a reasonable price ten years before that, or in the 16th year of the king, the term to which the statute refers


    18. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase


    19. Wil appeared less stressed as they moved their horses to the picket lines where mortal men in Wolf Rohjor livery moved to take the reins as they dismounted


    20. “Not a bad piece of livery,” Fergus said, “made of hazel, nicely chamfered handle and what’s this?”

    21. In the moonlight, he could just make out their livery: a gold star with a black sword piercing its centre


    22. They were dressed in the green and gold livery of the local land-owner—a man the villagers only saw once a year during the winter solstice celebrations


    23. They hurried the traveler’s warhorses to the livery stable where they were groomed with currycombs and fed grain


    24. Bjorn watched a gathering of gnomes open the doors of what he had taken to be a livery stable


    25. I knew there was another livery in the bad section of town so I headed down Albemarle Street


    26. It was their usual rendezvous with his livery staff and they were waiting by the terminal as the WWII fighter taxied up to the hangar


    27. the drive seat sat Crocus and Bluebell dressed in livery


    28. the waiting white limo in a specially designated area for livery service


    29. and noticed a young chauffeur in the livery


    30. While stuck in this thought, a lorry with livery from the Czech Republic pulled up to the stop and the driver then attempted to ask directions towards Dover

    31. I can check over at the livery stable


    32. walking rapidly toward the livery


    33. Then they would stop by the livery stable


    34. Ingrid nodded her head with satisfaction on seeing the sky blue and white paint scheme of the presidential fleet, with ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ and the presidential blazon painted on the fuselage side: Vice-President Warren was certainly doing his best to show the United States in its most impressive livery for this first official visit to the just proclaimed new Republic of Vietnam


    35. The next morning, Athash had promptly sent the necessary note to the quartermaster�s office, and Rush had showed up in short order, still dressed in the livery of a palace courier


    36. At the end of the pavilion they were met by a group of stable boys in dark green livery


    37. I left the building and hired a horse and buggy at the livery stable, then drove north beyond my father’s house to the rim of Coltsfoot Canyon


    38. As a pair of cleaning ladies approached, followed by a floor attendant in bright livery, Teller took the key from his pocket and opened the door


    39. One of them was Jake Lorrent, the owner of the livery stable and he also was deeply secretive in regard to his involvement in helping to move escaped slaves northward into Canada


    40. The horses leaned sharply into their harnesses and the wagon moved briskly out of the livery stable and at a trot the horses pranced their way up the street towards the train maintenance barn

    41. He handed these to Holnami and then he remounted his horse and caught up the reins of James Lorrent's other livery horse that she had been riding


    42. Lorrent's livery was on the west side of town and he would release the horses in the woods about a mile away from it knowing they would smell home and be there before sunrise


    43. It still wore the servant's livery but the clothes were ripped, the torn fabric flapping uselessly


    44. Lewis, the bank president and the livery owner


    45. Olin had rented a one-horse dray from Jake Lorrent's livery in order to convey the man along with his luggage and tools to the recently erected log cabin at The Rocks


    46. "From Jake Lorrent's manure piles at his livery


    47. The saltpetre had been obtained as white crystals from the base of the manure piles at Lorrent's livery


    48. On the morning of Monday, January 1, 1855, Olin walked to Jake Lorrent's livery to rent a horse and wagon on behalf of the railroad


    49. Pentahelm had reserved a horse and buggy at Lorrent's livery and had informed the man that she wished to take a long ride in the country air in order to get out of the town and to enjoy the winter countryside that was blanketed in brilliant white snow


    50. The sound of heavy footsteps and metal clanging as armored soldiers marched about in the regal red and blue livery of Caldera







































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    Synonyms for "livery"

    livery delivery legal transfer bilious liverish uniform suit apparel ensemble

    "livery" definitions

    uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs


    the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another


    the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay


    suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress