If, while passing under the ladder, a hod of bricks should fall through it and strike you on the head, then an "accident or affliction" shall have befallen you: otherwise not.

If the pepper happens to belong to the Cayenne persuasion, he magnifies it into a hod of bricks.

It is his hod way of accounting for it.

After this the emperor came to St. Peter's church and confessed meekly all his sins tofore all people, and what wrong he had done to Christian men, and made to dig and cast out to make the foundements for the churches, and bare on his shoulders twelve hods or baskets full of earth.

He carried some charcoal hods nearer to a stove needing replenishing.

One barricade had been built of wagon bodies and the big iron hods of road-scrapers; the wrecks of these were still piled at the road's edge.

* Memory Gems: The working men, whatever their task, Who carve the stone, or bear the hod, They wear upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God; And worthier are their drops of sweat Than diamonds in a coronet.

They evince throughout a patient, persistent industry in investigating original documents, from the mere labor of which an Irish hod-carrier would shrink aghast, and thank the Virgin that, though born a drudge, he was not born to drudge in the bogs and morasses of unexplored domains of History; yet the genius and enthusiasm of the historian are so strong that he converts the drudgery into delight, and lives joyful, though "laborious days."

The masons' helpers, who are mostly women, carry bricks and mortar upon their heads instead of in hods on their shoulders, and it is remarkable what heavy loads their spines will support.

He hod found it in the road and recognized it.

This derives its name from the habitation of the trouts (the banks of the "becks") which are called "hods" or "holds" and more frequently "pods," and this net therefore goes by these three names.

* THE TIN PEDDLER Jason White has come ter town Drivin' his tin peddler's cart, Pans a-bangin' up an' down Like they'd tear theirselves apart; Kittles rattlin' underneath, Coal-hods scrapin' out a song, Makes a feller grit his teeth When old Jason comes along.

A gentleman of Staffordshire recommends the preservation of apples for winter store, packed in banks or hods of earth like potatoes.

I dropped a coal-hod in.

In two hours and a quarter that coal-hod came up again.

The coal-hod went down, faster and faster, till it reached the centre of the earth.

For spunging and brushing Robyn Hods cotys . . . . . .

But there's no good quarrellin' wi' teathy folk; and it may lie in his way to do the George mony an ill turn, and mony a gude one; an' it's only fair to say it happened a long way before he was born, and there's no good in vexin' him; and I lay ye a pound, Captain, the Doctor hods wi' me.

The system had two advantagesit enabled me to do my trading in the commune, which I liked, and it relieved Amélie from having to carry heavy hods of coal in all weathers from the grange outside.

[Greek: Hod' eís tò sôphron ep' aretàen t' ágôn érôs, Zaelôtos ánthrôpoisin] Eurip.

Fink, who was the veteran bill poster of the town, was as round shouldered as a hod carrier.

" "Ye-e-e g-hods!

The sedentary philosopher, turning from his demonstration of the hopeless inferiority of woman, finds with dismay that his Irish or negro handmaiden can lift a heavy coal-hod more easily than he.

The ant has to tug just as hard to carry a grain of corn as the Irishman does to carry a hod of bricks.

The hod-carrier's son carries hods.