hoast
Britishnoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of hoast
from Old Norse
Example Sentences
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One was William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mocke not Enobarbus, I tell you true: Best you saf't the bringer Out of the hoast, I must attend mine Office, Or would haue done't my selfe.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
He was very busy when I went in, and never noticed me till the hoast took me.
From International Short Stories English by Various
"Well, she has that kechering hoast and spit now, and so Grizel brings her up here out o' the blasts."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
He that compard mans bodie to an hoast, Sayd that the hands were scouts, discouering harmes, The feete were horsemen, thundring on the coast, The brest, and stomacke, footmen, huge in swarmes.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt
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