"Syce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a thing done by the lazy hounds you have for servants. The more you keep, the less there is done. I had to thrash my new syce this morning to bring him to ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn
... was always furnished with a long halter or tethering-rope: thus I ordered the syce and another man to jump into the river and secure the crocodile by a rope fastened round the body behind the fore-legs. This was quickly accomplished, and the men remained knee-deep hauling upon the rope to prevent the stream from carrying away the body. In the mean time Monsoor ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker |
