United States or Benin ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. If he only earned tenpence a day, that would at any rate find him something to eat.
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. But no enlargement of the vault was necessary; a couple of more shelves was all that would be wanted for many a year to come.
Resignedly Thomas got into his evening clothes. They might smile at his pumps, the hang of his coat, but there would be no question over the correctness of his collar and cravat. He was very bitter against the world, and more especially against Thomas Webb, late of Hodman, Pelt and Company, "haberdashers to H. H. the Duke of" and so forth and so on.
Good heaven! it sickens one to think of it. A fellow like you, as strong as any hodman, to let such a creature sacrifice herself to keep him in bread; and the only bit of a little place she can sit down in when she comes home It's too much, you know it's more than she ought to bear." "And who are you, to meddle with us and our arrangements?" cried Mrs Fred. "My husband is in his own house.
'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. I was too sick to care much about what they said." "You forget your breakfast," said my sister. "I'll thank you for another muffin, and another cup of coffee," said I. "Poor fellow!" said my mother, "what he must have suffered!" "Oh!
Everything about her at this moment was divine and lovely to him; all the qualities of her rich uneven youth which she had shown in their short intercourse her rashness, her impulsiveness, her generosity. 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.
It is extraordinary that he an 'honest hodman of science', as Huxley once called him should not have been content to allow others, whose horizons were wider than his could be, to pursue those purely intellectual surveys for which he had no species of aptitude.
By to-morrow you won't know you got a cold." The woman's face was a study; but the doctor entered at that moment and saved her. She said: "Dr. Hodman, this is Miss Doane, my nearest neighbor." Drusilla shook his hand heartily. "I'm real glad to see you. I've brung Mis' Beaumont some herbs. A little boneset.
As one of those candidates, I may be permitted to say, that I feel much in the frame of mind of the Irish bricklayer's labourer, who bet another that he could not carry him to the top of the ladder in his hod. 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."
Michael Malia's hodman had said that they might place me just above my grandfather, and my grandfather was a man of letters, a historian whose histories I had not read; and in the midst of the horror my probable burial inspired in me, I found some amusement in the admission that I should like the old gentleman whose portrait hung in the dining-room to have read my novels.
Word Of The Day