Thursis hod hôx Ahitnas, kai Thursidos adea phôna. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
None of his family hod cholera but neighbors had it. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Second place today puts another £80,000 in the hod. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Horses] Reference
Master Alex hod three stores and he kept the middle one. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
JoHannah became a brick hod, ferrying bricks along the site. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Glassman: What Is Work? Finding Your Path by Laying the Bricks] Reference
"Didn't come," grunted Marty, and picked up the empty coal hod. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
He was a hod carrier when dey built de old red brick Arlington. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference
Would ever get an O.B.E. Or a knighthood for good service to the hod. From Wordnik.com. [Building Up and Tearing England Down] Reference
Before he knew it Mike had him in his hod and was going up the ladder. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
"I'm no hod carrier but would be laying bricks to see him running at me". From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
So she had to go down cellar and bring up as much as she could in the hod. From Wordnik.com. [Pages for Laughing Eyes] Reference
Broadcloth is wiser, just as a skilled workman is wiser than a hod carrier. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
"Ye little runt, Oi bet I could carry yez up to the fifth story in me hod.". From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
They lost little time in beginning, each coming with his first hod of plaster. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
Delia caught up a coal-hod and strode deliberately off toward the cellar stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
A hod-carrier told her that he had just seen the bird in Saint-Melaine, in Mother. From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Soul] Reference
I carried the hod to assist in building the college in which I afterward graduated. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
So when I stepped out of the car, there was a hod (ph) carrier, which I used to do. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003] Reference
"C" Company dropped down the steep slope and waited in the hod for further instructions. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference
Step 3: Find the contour lines and establish your hod crops on the lower half of the farm. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
"I'm going right home," she said to Marty, when he came back with the replenished coal hod. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
She led him straight to the coal-box, on which she sat until he had filled a hod with coal. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
I could not walk a quarter of a mile before I got it, and could lift no more than a hod of coal. From Wordnik.com. [Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured] Reference
In other words I think I had got to the limit of my endurance, when a halt was called in the hod. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference
Irish lover of liberty that carries the hod or trowel, would leave at once, or compel him to leave!. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Those, however, rendered incapable, by habit and nature, of the task, may cast rubbish and carry a hod. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
Just what he had intended to do with useless clothing and a hod of bricks it was impossible to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
I see him he was in th 'buildin' an 'contractin' line -- carryin 'a hod an' pushin 'an Irishman's buggy. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
"What's this?" asked Aunt Stanshy, stopping before a discarded mantel-piece resting on a rabbit-box and a coal-hod. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference
The warlike Sam remained sitting disconsolately in the coal-hod; his instructions suggested no means of extrication. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
Why, of course! the hod of the swallow mason is none other than his mouth, and it holds as much as half a thimbleful. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
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