hodman
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hodmen
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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
So that we cannot do better than give a few samples thereof, at least samples decent enough for modern readers, and let us begin, not with a hodman, but with Jonson himself.
From Plays and Puritans by Charles Kingsley
Pope, to whom Burlington acts as hodman, is depicted whitewashing Burlington Gate, Piccadilly, which is labelled "Taste," and over which rises Kent's statue, subserviently supported at the angles of the pediment by Raphael and Michelangelo.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson
The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
Mr Rollitt led the way with all the agility of a practical hodman.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed
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
Then, going to his carriage, he saw several hodmen lounging about, who were carrying mortar for some repairs that were being made at the palace.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
A dense tide of population thronged the close, confined passages, mostly of hodmen, bricklayers' laborers, and scavengers, with old-clothesmen, beggars, and others whose rollicking air and daring look bespoke more hazardous modes of life.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
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
The monks were not only the architects, but also the masons, and even the hodmen of their edifices.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
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