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单词 hodman
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There is no scaffolding, no hodman with bricks and mortar; the solid stone walls seem to grow up in the most hopeless confusion.  Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z
They have been the administrators, the servants, living by borrowed precept, receiving orders, doing hodmen's work. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism
A dense tide of population thronged the close, confined passages, mostly of hodmen, bricklayers' laborers, and scavengers, with old-clothesmen, beggars, and others whose rollicking air and daring look bespoke more hazardous modes of life. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas
Journeymen masons feasted on venison pasties, carpenters' apprentices and hungry hodmen, for once in their lives stayed their appetites with roast pheasant and pat� de foie gras. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.
"Then I must go as a hodman or a breaker of stones," said Brian, "for I mean to go." Under False Pretences A Novel
The carts were toiling ere the dawn; The mason whistled, the hodman sang; Early and late the trowels rang; And Thin himself came day by day To push the work in every way. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers
Every one knows that the result of ten days' labor of a skilled watch-maker does not exchange for the result of ten days' labor of an unskilled hodman. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy
What you propose to do is much the same as doing nothing; it is no better than a hodman's work, and can be done by machinery. The Sand-Hills of Jutland
But one fine day he walked in upon the principal builder, and told him to come next morning, to his garden, with the necessary workmen--stonemasons, hodmen, and so forth--and build him a house. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.
If not here caught by the bricklayer, it would return to the hodman with an accelerated motion, and reach his hand with the precise velocity it possessed on quitting it. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
This "hodman's work" is the basis of the great generalizations which constitute the framework of the modern scientific systems. Human Traits and their Social Significance
‘Only!’ repeated the lieutenant, ‘I thought it had been one of the big stones for the new bridge, and the owner of it a drunken Irish hodman.’ Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer
Mr Rollitt led the way with all the agility of a practical hodman. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth
The monks were not only the architects, but also the masons, and even the hodmen of their edifices. Illuminated Manuscripts
If a hodman, for example, wished to land a brick at an elevation of sixteen feet above the place where he stood, he would probably pitch it up to the bricklayer. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
It wakes the drowsy lounger of the East, Who lolls in sunshine idle as a gourd, To toil like Irish hodmen My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale
As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2
He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman. His Masterpiece
But perhaps I have done a hodman's work, by bringing a little mortar, with which some of the nobler materials may presently be put together. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911
Let her but trust herself to him, and she should try her social experiments as she pleased—she should plan Utopias, and he would be her hodman to build them. Marcella
It will be a success when the Jews in it are scavengers, when the Jews in it are sweeps, when they are dockers and ditchers and porters and hodmen. The New Jerusalem
They walk circumspectly, lest a baker, sweep, or hodman, stumbling against the coat, may deprive its wearer of what to him represents so much ready money. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
And he painted like a whitewasher, mixing his colours as a hodman mixes his mortar, and managing to make the clearest and brightest of them quite muddy. His Masterpiece
The idea of low "Hirish" hodmen or labourers rescuing prisoners from them, the valiant and the brave! The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession
Fancy a one-armed and legless hodman ascending the under side of a ladder to the roof, and reflect on the conveniences of gymnastic habits. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
Pope, to whom Burlington acts as hodman, is depicted whitewashing Burlington Gate, Piccadilly, which is labelled "Taste," and over which rises Kent's statue, subserviently supported at the angles of the pediment by Raphael and Michelangelo. De Libris: Prose and Verse
Mankind resembles the bricklayer and the hodman who help to raise an imposing edifice without any knowledge of the general plan. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
And he was weary already; sick at scouring the town, at earning twenty-five sous an hour from ignorant architects, who treated him like a hodman. His Masterpiece
From the Irish reaper or hodman to the chief justice or the minister of state, nearly all the work of society is remunerated by day wages or fixed salaries. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
Strength and Direction build the Temple: Strength, or Manual Labour, represented by the hodmen and quarrymen, and the rest of the "hands:" Direction, or Mental Labour, represented by the overseers. Moral Philosophy
They were shown the plan of a building, and the "greater" members, furnished with trowels, were obliged to build it in edibles, the "lesser" acting as hodmen, and bringing materials. Fra Bartolommeo
The executioners led him into the interior of the guardhouse, which was filled with slaves, archers, hodmen, and the very dregs of the people, but there were no soldiers. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
In turn he tried to learn a baker's calling, became a mason's hodman, secured work at the markets, but without ever fixing himself anywhere. Fruitfulness
Roast lamb, boiled beef, "heaps of smoking roasted potatoes," pots of porter,—a noontide meal for a hodman,—and the hour midnight! The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
There was something suppressed in this—a mean evasion—for he could not easily have told Mr. Edgcrton, without a blush, that, instead of the mercantile establishment, he would have made me a bricklayer's hodman. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story
Your man DID come here—drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night—came a-purpose to mock me—stuck his head out of the door an' called me a crucified hodman. Life's Handicap
After four days new red bricks began to arrive, carried by a quite guiltless hodman who had not visited the house before. The Old Wives' Tale
If you, dear good hodmen, would have but let me fall! Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
Deal with the nostril as you will; I am but a hodman who bears the bricks, you are the heaven-born architect. Pearl-Maiden
Such were the preparations that were made for the obsequies of the defunct king; and his body was watched by a few servants and these hodmen whom Andouille had employed as messengers. Joseph II. and His Court
On this point there can be no doubt; for these hodmen of poetry 'made a wall in our father's house, and the bricks are alive to testify unto this day.' Plays and Puritans
The hodman met the full storm of Constance's wrath. The Old Wives' Tale
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 am a very hodman, a spiritual Sisyphus. The Wizard
Then, going to his carriage, he saw several hodmen lounging about, who were carrying mortar for some repairs that were being made at the palace. Joseph II. and His Court
So that we cannot do better than give a few samples thereof, at least samples decent enough for modern readers, and let us begin, not with a hodman, but with Jonson himself. Plays and Puritans
It was not a vicious wrath, rather a good-humoured wrath; but it impressed the hodman. The Old Wives' Tale
The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York. North America — Volume 1
Mirabeau himself has his instructive Journal or Journals, with Geneva hodmen working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Female Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. The French Revolution
And her first lesson causes her great surprise, for she hears Geraldine swearing like a hodman at the duke, who suffers with most ecstatic submissiveness. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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