During a dust-storm everybody has the appearance of a toiling hodman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference

The hodman met the full storm of Constance's wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America] Reference

Mr Rollitt led the way with all the agility of a practical hodman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cock-House at Fellsgarth] Reference

It was not a vicious wrath, rather a good-humoured wrath; but it impressed the hodman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America — Volume 1] Reference

Deal with the nostril as you will; I am but a hodman who bears the bricks, you are the heaven-born architect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearl-Maiden] Reference

After four days new red bricks began to arrive, carried by a quite guiltless hodman who had not visited the house before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference

Mankind resembles the bricklayer and the hodman who help to raise an imposing edifice without any knowledge of the general plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference

As the carpentering business was not prosperous, he would turn day laborer, be a mason's hodman, a ditcher, break stones on the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories] Reference

'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.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer] Reference

` 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.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

The challenged hodman won his wager, but as the stakes were handed over, the challenger wistfully remarked, "I'd great hopes of falling at the third round from the top.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Science & Education] Reference

Supposing the hodman competent to impart to the brick, at starting, a velocity of sixty-four feet a second, or twice its former velocity, would the amount of work performed be twice what it was in the first instance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference

Scarcely had I quitted the pen, when there came two other men in uniform; one of them, whose arm and sleeve up to the very shoulder, as well as the sabre, were covered with blood, said, He was as weary as a hodman that had been beating plaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

One day the silence of the woods was broken by the sound of a mason's hammer, and on making inquiry from a passing workman -- his hodman probably -- I learned that on opening the vault it had been discovered that there was not room for another coffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

It was my good fortune to have helped as a hodman in the study of these creatures, with a view to a Text-book we were to have written conjointly, and as I realise what he was intending to make out of the dry facts, I am filled with grief at the thought of what we must have lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

A hodman, of a scavenger of the roads, instead of the decent suit of kersey, or of Sabbath doeskins, such as had won the respect and reverence of his fellow-townsmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

A kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

The mason whistled, the hodman sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Emblems] Reference

"Well, you might walk as far as Melbourne," said the hairy man, "and then you could get fourteen bob a day as a hodman; or you might take.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

I am a very hodman, a spiritual Sisyphus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard] Reference

Hodge, 134 hodman, 114 hoe-cake, 43, 55, 57 hoed, 245 hog, v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference