| 单词 | hod |
| 例句 | At various times he was a hod carrier, a logger in Alaska, a stock clerk, a truck driver, a manager of a hot-sheet motel and a gym instructor. Joe Gores, Crime Writer in Dashiell Hammett Mode, Dies at 79 2011-01-14T02:35:11Z When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier. Charlene Mitchell, 92, Dies; First Black Woman to Run for President 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z He worked as a coal-bagger and then a hod carrier as a young man to help supplement his family’s income, building formidable upper-body strength. Gordon Banks, soccer star who made ‘save of the century,’ dies at 81 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The Librarians When a town named Feud hods a Civil War reenactment they are plagued by ghosts in this new episode. Wednesday's TV highlights: 'grown-ish' on Freeform 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Women hod placards as they demonstrate in the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France, Tuesday, Oct. Dreams, smugglers feed migrant myth of El Dorado in Britain 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or carrying a hod, stop for a moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better? Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first - BBC News 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z He looks strong and solid enough to carry a hod full of bricks, but he would be the first to suggest that the bricks might not resemble any you’ve ever known. Here comes the future: We’re making robots that feel! 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The clods are passed from man to man to the bank, where other men stand with their backs turned, and their arms crossed behind them, so as to make a sort of primitive hod. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z He had begun life carrying hods of mortar for masons, and covering up bricks with straw—a half-starved urchin, his feet as naked as his head, and his body pretty nearly the same. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z They are bowing themselves beneath hods of untempered mortar. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z It was all that I could do to lift a hod of coal to the stove. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Hod′man, a man who carries a hod: a mason's labourer. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z His kist o' money won't hod na time, I warrant ye, when once that lassie gets her pretty fingers under the lid. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Your eyes get used to the dark—just like you went down cellar at night for a hod of coal.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z I ought to add, that this kind of faith is uncommon among folks who carry hods or build walls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z He was then dressed like a mason with hod and trowel, and so conveyed over the frontier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Hodograph, hod′o-graf, n. a curve the radius vector of which represents in direction and magnitude the velocity of a moving particle—a term suggested by Sir W. R. Hamilton. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z They cut the timber, run saw-mills, dig drains, make bricks and mortar, carry hods, and plaster the inside of houses. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z Here Jasper went to a large, old-fashioned wooden hod, and taking big lumps of coal, put them on the fire. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Could he drive a team, or carry a hod of bricks? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z The hoe, the hod, the plough, the scythe, the shovel, the woodsaw, and the axe, these are all old friends of mine. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z If a man don’t understand latin now a daze, he kant hardly enjoy the conversashun ov a hod carrier. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z But history, even up to to-day, shows that the knight of the hod faces any odds of position or numbers at the command of his officer. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z He can mix the mortar; he will soon be able to carry the hod. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z "Hit's a bit hod about the chimney, sir." The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Yes, Gabriel carrying his hod full of bricks up a steep ladder, was a symbolical representation of his race. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z He suspended the editor for printing the announcement and set him to work carrying a hod. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z Plowmen transformed to heroes, such as shall forever put Cincinnatus in the shade; day laborers, carriers of the hod, claiming—and rightfully, too—high places in the Pantheon of heroic demi-gods. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Fowler," responds the mother, "if I wear my fingers to the bone, my boy shall never carry the hod. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Made mortar, carried de hod and brick and when quittin' time come you was tired. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z In that hod full of bricks not only his own sad experience was represented, but the entire history of the native Californians of Spanish descent was epitomized. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Not a single hero of the hod appeared. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z Lime Grove and Englefield Grange, however, were at least a mile from the station, and for the present, therefore, safe from the invasion of the pickaxe and the hod. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z It is of no importance whether he win this by wearing a hod upon his shoulders, or a crown upon his head. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier. Andy Holmes obituary 2010-10-25T18:11:00Z He had carried many loads, and was beginning to tremble with fatigue, when upon going up, carrying a hod full of bricks, the ladder slipped to one side a little. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z He wasn't much good at school – he says he might have been a bit dyslexic, or just a bit thick – and left at 15 to carry hods on a building site. Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Believe this, and you won’t have to stumble slowly up, as I did, with a hod full of old precepts on my back. Where the Path Breaks Its victims are found in all classes from the hod carrier in his bespattered rags up to the members of Congress in their ruffles. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution “Losh, what would make him hod it?” demanded the old woman. The Little Minister One calls for a hod of mortar, another for his hammer. A Short History of French Literature A good supply of mortar having been brought to the Prince of Wales in a mahogany hod, His Royal Highness spread a sufficient quantity to make a setting for the stone. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 A beery Milesian, ascending a ladder with a hod of mortar, slips and falls on the pavement below. Here and There in London Children, with a sort of hod at their backs, run about collecting argols, which they pile up in heaps around their respective tents. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The laborious task of the garrison still went on, much to the disgust of Jack, who swore ditching and hod carrying was no part of a sailor's duty. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia And cried through the lifted thunder Of thronging hammer and hod ‘Throw open the third window In the third name of God.’ The Ballad of St. Barbara And Other Verses We want the carpenter’s son, With his saw and hod. Songs of the Army of the Night The great weight which a Singhalese or Tamil woman can carry on her head is something marvelous, far exceeding that of an Irish laborer's hod of bricks or mortar borne upon the shoulder. The Pearl of India There are yet others, in that land which boasts of its high civilization, who live by carrying to the city immense loads of sand for sixpence a day,—harder work than carrying a hod. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 The hod became too uneasy a burden for the boys’ shoulders, even though it was padded with sheep-skin. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Two infants, whose parents had just been murdered, were carried in a hod and cast into the Seine. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 One hod of this mortar will go a great way, as it is to be laid on in a thin smooth coat, without the least space being left uncovered. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The whole house was prettily finished and in the two rooms down stairs there were fireplaces which took my eye, although they weren't bigger than coal hods. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America Let him be employed as a journeyman, and every Irish lover of liberty that carries the hod or trowel, would leave at once, or compel him to leave! Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject “But I shall want one of you to carry the hod for me,” said the mason. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The white man was up in a twinkling, but by that time the porcupine hod settled himself in a crotch, out of reach of the smoke, and the woods were silent again. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals While thus employed, with a hod of mortar on his back, he fell from a platform and was killed. The Mines and its Wonders I gripped her hand and sat staring into the little coal hod fireplace which we didn't light more than once a month now. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America I sat upon a hod, In my hand there was a clod, And I threw it at a crow— An old one I trow. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young He filled his hod with mortar, and he stooped down and took the hod of mortar on his shoulder, and he went trotting 24to the ladder, and he went down the ladder. The Doers The Steward, who had gone out, returns at once, whip in hand, followed by a poor old man, half naked, and covered with mud, who carries a hod. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Men and children passed him with lowered heads and backs bent beneath hods of white-wood, containing provisions for some villa or pension, the balconies of which could be distinguished on the slopes. Tartarin On The Alps Why her father, a kindly soul who had risen from hod carrier to contractor, happened to choose Leslie Manor for his youngest daughter must remain one of the unanswered questions. A Dixie School Girl Broadcloth is wiser, just as a skilled workman is wiser than a hod carrier. The Diamond Coterie And the man filled this hod with mortar, and he turned around and put the hod across one shoulder with the bottom of the trough resting on his shoulder. The Doers To be sure, they made no use of that ladder, even though they were masons and had their hods of plaster to carry way up near the top of their cliff. Bird Stories The hods carried by these girls on their heads were flat, wooden trays, square at each end: once poised on the head, they balanced themselves, and were carried around without a fall. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Well, his father died when he was little, and his mother married a brick-layer; and Ben used to carry hods of mortar up ladders,—oh me! what a strange world it is! Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Costing little if any thing to support them, they were excellent labor-saving machines, and did three quarters of the work that in our country would have been done by hod and wheelbarrow labor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And he dumped the mortar out of the hod on to a board near the men who were building the wall. The Doers They lost little time in beginning, each coming with his first hod of plaster. Bird Stories A maker of hods or a maker of hoods? The Romance of Names A light wooden mine hod, covered, probably, with hide, hangs at his back by a shoulder-strap, fastened to his belt. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean Success began to look not like an aurora, but like a solid structure built of bricks that must be carried in hods. Jewel Weed He had gone into the house with a hod of mortar. The Doers Why, of course! the hod of the swallow mason is none other than his mouth, and it holds as much as half a thimbleful. Bird Stories But always, as I crossed toward the opening of a wide new street, where against the sky were tall scaffoldings and men busy with hod and mortar, I saw Irma coming towards me. The Dew of Their Youth She commanded him to fetch a hod of coal. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The Swallow's Nest Day after day her nest she moulded, Building with magic, love and mud, A gray cup made by a thousand journeys, And the tiny beak was trowel and hod. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children The man hoed the mortar for a few minutes, and then he took up a queer-looking thing that he said was his hod. The Doers Perhaps their mouths were tired of being hods for clay they could not eat. Bird Stories Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders. The Dew of Their Youth "The idea of a hod being left standing, and then being blown over into the street doesn't satisfy me!" The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving He told her that he had loved Dolores for more than four years, but that she had known it only a few months, and that she hod made no response to his declaration of love. Which? or, Between Two Women The mortar man hurried off with his hod of mortar, and the little boy wandered over to where the carpenters were. The Doers The strong bull-necked man that follows him with a hod of mortar is an unmistakable seaman of one of the Mediterranean ports. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale I never saw an Irish labourer, with his hod and his pipe, mounting a ladder, but I was sure to discover that he was an idler. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 A customer coming out of a store next door caught sight of the bricks and the hod. The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving Let a man be apprenticed to a skilled trade, and carry a bricklayer’s hod, or a carpenter’s rule. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. Recently the hod carriers in San Francisco presented a petition to their employers for increased pay and pressed for its consideration. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Their trade implements consist of a pickaxe, a basket, and a thin wooden hod to fill the earth into the basket. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala O, my lord the basket, my lord the pickaxe shaped like a snake, and my lady the hod! The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) The hod must have been left standing near the edge of the building—perhaps against the top of a ladder. The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving Through some accident one of the hod carriers fell from the structure and dropped dead at his feet. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune He called his board of public workers together and remarked: 'I see all the contractors are tying up work because of the hod carriers' request. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Pipe to carry your drink to you; Rail to speed your rations through; Road to march on firm and true Past bir and hod. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 He carried the hod until he found better work, and never left one position until he had found a better one, no matter what his real or supposed provocation might be. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail The fire was built up with the last scrap of coal in the hod, and then Ronald lay down without undressing. Sue, A Little Heroine Besides serving as scare-crow, he assisted his father in his mason's work, and became a hod-carrier as soon as he was able to carry a hod. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money So she had to go down cellar and bring up as much as she could in the hod. Pages for Laughing Eyes It was pathetic to think of old Mother Ugba squatting in a concentration camp on the Canal and dreaming of the obscure charms of her beloved hod! The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 I could not walk a quarter of a mile before I got it, and could lift no more than a hod of coal. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured The mortar is taken up in a hod or hoisted in pails and deposited on ledged boards about 3 ft. square, placed on the scaffold at convenient distances apart along the line of work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Two men of the same avoirdupois may be walking side by side on the street, but one of them may be a genius and the other a hod carrier. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing One of the strangest items in his scheme was a plaster hod moulding round each of the arches above the arcade. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See Suddenly the store door closed behind me; broom, oil can, coal hod and scissors knew me no more. Confessions of Boyhood The ashes are caught in a hod—not a square pan—far below the grate; the left-hand hod in the picture. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes St. Hugh of Lincoln was not the only Bishop who could plan a church, instruct the workman, or handle a hod. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry There was a string that hoisted and lowered the coal hod from the cellar through a square hole in the kitchen floor, thereby saving one the fatigue of tugging it up the stairs. Flood Tide In other words I think I had got to the limit of my endurance, when a halt was called in the hod. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 He also carried in the fuel for the house, using a crate or hod hoisted on his back. Life of Father Hecker You see, we have made a place for the coal-hod, inside the stove, and we furnish both hods. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes “It's lyin', anyhow,” he said, sulkily, once, when he loaded the shoes on his shoulder, like a mason's hod, and was starting forth from his uncle's shop. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel "A coal hod is such an infernal tote to tote!" Flood Tide "C" Company dropped down the steep slope and waited in the hod for further instructions. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 He searched among the coals in the hod until he found a hard piece of slate. Maida's Little Shop She had a black satin Methodist bonnet, very much the shape of a coal hod, and the color of her own complexion, only there was a slight shade of blue in it. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is One who judged from goldite talk only, would conclude that silver is a burden in those countries, that they have to carry it about in hods. If Not Silver, What? His working gear had suffered heavily, two of his windlasses were disabled, scaffolding, platforms, hods, and loose planks had vanished; a few small tools only remained, mixed together in a mash of puddled lime. The Ship of Stars The 6th and 7th therefore extended and assumed attack formation to pass through the hod. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 They took charge of the work themselves, letting the colored brick-masons act as hod carriers for them. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel Little Pat and big Mike had had a dispute, when Mike in contempt said: "Ye little runt, Oi bet I could carry yez up to the fifth story in me hod." More Toasts Those, however, rendered incapable, by habit and nature, of the task, may cast rubbish and carry a hod. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 "They are after him for a traitor, but I cannot see as it's anything to me what they do with him when they catch hod on him; it's nothing to me, is it, mother?" The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Just what he had intended to do with useless clothing and a hod of bricks it was impossible to understand. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper The poorest man with a hod on his shoulder carrying brick up a wall begrudged not the philanthropist his carriage as he rode by. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Before he knew it Mike had him in his hod and was going up the ladder. More Toasts Prosperity grabs ivry man be th' neck, an' sets him shovellin' slag or coke or runnin' up an' down a ladder with a hod iv mortar. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen "Hod thy tongue, lad, hod thy tongue," said Mrs. Garth, with a whimper. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance To rule and shine was as much her métier as it was the métier of a bricklayer's labourer to carry hods. Marcella At first he had carried hods of mortar and cement up ladders to the masons. Waysiders III To scythe, to sceptre, pen and hod— Yea, sodden laborers dumb; To brains overplied, to feet that plod, In solace of the Truce of God The Calumet has come! John Marr and Other Poems In Calcutta, women are the masons, and maybe seen daily conveying their hods of cement, and spreading it on the tops of their houses. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses There were the geese, all barefoot Trampling the mortar, and when all was ready They handed it into the hods, so cleverly, With their flat feet! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The clock struck one, the time to pick up his hod again. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations And on one side we heard all the Socialist gang wage A war against Broadhurst, who carried a hod once. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 Each builder worked with a sword hanging by his side; each porter held a hod in one hand, and a weapon in the other. The King's Cup-Bearer Fink, who was the veteran bill poster of the town, was as round shouldered as a hod carrier. Round the Block He was a hod carrier when dey built de old red brick Arlington. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 A gentleman of Staffordshire recommends the preservation of apples for winter store, packed in banks or hods of earth like potatoes.—Communication to the Horticultural Society. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 An Irish laborer laid a wager with another hod bearer that the latter could not carry him up the ladder to the top of a house in his hod, without letting him fall. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 He hod found it in the road and recognized it. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 The masons' helpers, who are mostly women, carry bricks and mortar upon their heads instead of in hods on their shoulders, and it is remarkable what heavy loads their spines will support. Modern India Inside and outside alike; bricklayers, painters, carpenters, masons; hammer, hod, brush, pickaxe, saw, trowel: all at work together, in full chorus. Ten Girls from Dickens To see your neighbor carrying in hods, foretells your surroundings will be decidedly distasteful and inharmonious. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Inside and outside alike: bricklayers, painters, carpenters, masons: hammer, hod, brush, pickaxe, saw, and trowel: all at work together, in full chorus! Dombey and Son None of his family hod cholera but neighbors had it. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 I ought to add that this kind of faith is uncommon among folks who carry hods or build walls. The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow He was then convinced that the storm would "hod off," at least till morning, that the sheep would get shelter enough from the stone walls of the "intak," and that all was well. The Case of Richard Meynell One carried a rope, another a pickaxe, the third a trowel and hod of mortar. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Walter carried his hod full, and was a man. Home Again Master Alex hod three stores and he kept the middle one. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Every alternate day the cage is placed on loose ground in sun and wind; and once a week there is a longer sparring-bout with thick leather hods, or spur-pads. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I But how could they put the mortar into hods? The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 He took his wooden hod, filled it with bricks and slowly climbed the ladder. The Path of Life "Hod back, ye saucy thing! hod back, I say!" The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea And a tale came forth of the woven slain Sequent and whole, Of flint and bronze, trowel and hod, The wheel and the plane, The carven stone and the graven clod Painted and baked. Toward the Gulf A king and clown beneath one planet's nod Are born; one wields a sceptre, one a hod. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes One barricade had been built of wagon bodies and the big iron hods of road-scrapers; the wrecks of these were still piled at the road's edge. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front There was talk of a silver hod and trowel, which the old lady was to use herself, determined to figure to triumph, with her eighty-two years. Doctor Pascal It seems they had flipped pennies and Bill hod been left behind with the truck and the tools while the others went down to the mill pond in the valley below. Great Possessions He carried some charcoal hods nearer to a stove needing replenishing. Andy the Acrobat I met him several times in the corridors or on the stairways, and one day I was going up-stairs, carrying a hod of coals, as he was coming down. The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander If the pepper happens to belong to the Cayenne persuasion, he magnifies it into a hod of bricks. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 If, while passing under the ladder, a hod of bricks should fall through it and strike you on the head, then an "accident or affliction" shall have befallen you: otherwise not. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 Now then, now then, don't hoist me as if I were a hod of bricks. The Head of Kay's It is better to carry a hod, or wield a shovel, in an honest endeavor to be of some use to humanity, than to be nursed in luxury and be a parasite. The True Citizen, How to Become One Servants, lawyers, hod carriers, merchants, old maids, widows, mechanics, sly wives, thieving clerks, and the "demi-monde," all throng to the portals of the "Big Board." The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance It is his hod way of accounting for it. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 He found one and then went to work as assistant to an architect and builder, carrying a hod all day and studying politics evenings. The Gilded Age, Part 4. The poor quietly died, as usual; the well-to-do ventured a hod and a stick or two in open grates, or sat huddled under rugs over oil or electric stoves; or migrated to comfortable hotels. In Secret She led him straight to the coal-box, on which she sat until he had filled a hod with coal. Friends and Helpers My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental—for the externals—no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next man. Lord Jim Brother Hod; a familiar name for a bricklayer's labourer: from the hod which is used for carrying bricks and mortar. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue My dear Foster, There was an Irish bricklayer who once bet a hodman he would not carry him up to the top of an exceeding high ladder in his hod. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 "I wish she'd bring us a hod or two of coal." In Secret When he needed any, he'd say to a servant: "James, fetch me up a hod of change." Cape Cod Stories "Losh, what would make him hod it?" demanded the old woman. The Little Minister Apropos of Edinburgh I feel much like the Irish hod-man who betted his fellow he could not carry him up to the top of a house in his hod. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 What we want to know is, ar-re we goin' to have coal enough in th' hod whin th' cold snap comes; will th' plumbin' hold out, an' will th' job last. Observations By Mr. Dooley Stevedores, draymen, street porters, roustabouts, hod carriers and ditch diggers still remember to this day what money they earned by the day during this mad summer. Yama: the pit Selecting the highest tree near he chopped a staircase and went up it almost as quickly as a bricklayer mounts a ladder with a hod. It Is Never Too Late to Mend The article in question, together with a fork, hod been a wedding-present from Mrs. Sprowl, whose character had in it a sort of vulgar generosity, displayed at times in gifts to Harriet. The Unclassed Till now all the bricks even for a high building were carried up to the mason in hods. Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy A. Well, I know it is with me—every last sentence of it; and a couple of hods of Ollendorff, too, for emergencies. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories There was an Irishman coming down a ladder with a hod of bricks," he said, "and a Dutchman was standing on the ground below. Mark Twain's Speeches An' then at t' news I has a lewk; Or hods a bit o' talk wi' t' wife, The praade an' comfort o' my life. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems She knocked a whole plank out of the bottom with a hod. Sixes and Sevens Did you think, sir, that it was a hod of brick—with which I have no doubt you are most familiar—that you could dump down any place and any how, sir? The Red Acorn He found about a cupola a terrace which he had not earlier noticed, and on this terrace a hod of plaster, a trowel, and a ladder some seventy feet long. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Porterage being the sole means of transport, they came to carry our things as they would have carried their own, in skeleton hods strapped to their backs. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan We have her, we have her, Fast i' a tether Coom help us to hod her. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems How would it work to see the same ghost again, minus the overalls, and have gold bricks in the hod? Sixes and Sevens Pray how much does a man earn who climbs the ladder with a bricklayer's hod upon his shoulders? Caught in the Net Some were laying bricks, some hewing stones, some carrying up the heavy hods and pails and bringing them down empty. Resurrection I carried the hod to assist in building the college in which I afterward graduated. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries For noo that life, which all hod dear, Is gean, alas! Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems He had this house built from his own plans; but—oh, a hod! Sixes and Sevens You can distinctly feel the circular saw at work and you can taste a hod of mortar and a bucket of hot tar and one thing and another that have been left in the wings. Cobb's Anatomy I hod no judgment when to her I swore. A Midsummer Night's Dream When we got tull sea, I found he hod no receipt for the cable. The Strength of the Strong She had her revenge upon her hostess by relating, with grim enjoyment and sarcastic humour, her story of the vision carrying the hod. Sixes and Sevens By a spiteful eye, a Revolutionary knapsack might easily be construed to be a hod. Sixes and Sevens One would think every brick in the hod had dropped on her. Sixes and Sevens “He was the owner of the lighter, an’ when he hod told hus story, I says, ‘I dudna see ony lighter.’ The Strength of the Strong But freights was up, an’ they hod a charter o’ coals for Portland. 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