Example Sentences

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She thought of Richard, and wished that she could have hoed a blessing into every bean of his that she had hoed.

From Living Alone by Benson, Stella

And my host who had hoed the whole day long, Hearty at eighty years, sat with his pipe Reading the organ of the Adventists, His wife beside him knitting.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee

So, when the guards had hoed, the King said to them: "Take this Chief Counselor and throw him away."

From The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

But when he saw that she had hoed the potatoes after all he was not pleased.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

Foe I jined the Yankees I had hoed and I had picked cotton.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration