hodman
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hodmen
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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 Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
It was not a vicious wrath, rather a good-humoured wrath; but it impressed the hodman.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Mr Rollitt led the way with all the agility of a practical hodman.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed
During a dust-storm everybody has the appearance of a toiling hodman.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
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.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
To them are joined a considerable number of furnace-men's assistants, stovepipe-men's assistants, mason's assistants, and hodmen who assist the assistants of the masons, the furnace-men, and the pipe-men.
From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Edward Everett Hale
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.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
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.'
From Plays and Puritans by Charles Kingsley
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.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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