was stabling
- past progressive of stable.
Example Sentences
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That evening, as he walked by the docks, a slip of a boy came up and asked where he was stabling his horse.
From The Celtic Twilight by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
There was stabling, in which were kept a Victorian dogcart and a Georgian horse, used by the Councillor in his business.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
There were four hundred rooms, and thirteen grand staircases, to say nothing of the smaller ones, and there was stabling for twelve hundred horses.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
The situation was good though—without being too far from his former address—and there was stabling for a pair of horses.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
Then for one thing there was stabling for only forty horses; and of course, as I told them, this would never do.
From Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall
