He dropped the hoe and ran.

And he, too noble to despise the past, Too proud to be ashamed of manhood's toil, Too wise to fancy that a gulf lay wide Betwixt the labouring hand and thinking brain, Or that a workman was no gentleman, Because a workman, clothed himself again In his old garments, took the hoe or spade, Or sowing sheet, or covered in the grain, Smoothing with harrows what the plough had ridged.

The men and women were intermingled; the latter kept pace with the former, wielding their hoes with energy and effect.

This grass is sometimes cut by the inhabitants, who use for the purpose a hoe.

Huckstep advanced within a few steps of him when Harry raised his hoe and told him to stand back.

You will then see the swarthy Dangur, with his favourite child on his shoulder, wending his way back to his hut, followed by his comely wife carrying his hoe, and a tribe of little ones bringing up the rear, each carrying bundles of the indigo stubble which the industrious father has dug up during the early hours of morning.

The negroes had laid down their hoes and rakes; the little tots had placed themselves behind the large, sheltering trees, while the old black women were peeping around the corner of the house.

The slave, seeing no end of his labour, stands over the work, and only throws the hoe to avoid the lash.

He looked as if he would not have minded seizing a hoe that very moment.

On the following morning, as I was handing to each of the hands their hoes from the tool house, I caught Harry's eye.

Wagons, plows, harrows, grubbing hoes, hames, collars, baskets, bridle bits and hoe handles were all made on the farm and from the material which it produced, except the iron.

I cleaned and sharpened my hoe.

As to matings: "While watching the negroes in the field, Mr. X. addressed a girl who was vigorously plying a hoe near us: 'Is that Lucy?Ah, Lucy, what's this I hear about you?'

Her mother told him if he put her daughter there in that hole she'd cop him up in pieces wid her hoe.

The day after Tommy went to Mr. Barlow's the clergyman took his two pupils into the garden, and, taking a spade in his own hand, and giving Harry a hoe, they both began to work.

You are for we minister, and for we only friend; and if you did not advise we to go on work till things settle down, we no lift another hoe.

"I know they said it was bad luck to bring a hoe or a ax in the house on your shoulder.

Do the potatoes need hoeing, ma?

I have furnished them with seed and lent them hoes, on condition that they do not work on the Sabbath.

The frequent shortage of water in this régime made the flooding irregular and necessitated many hoeings of the crop.

Numerous edicts prohibited hoeing and weeding, lest young partridges should be destroyed.

The black abandoned his hoe, and took a position on the side of the mountain, that gave him a view of the whole bay.

Its culture is very similar to that of the Teazle, with this difference, it requires the hoe at work constantly all the summer months.

If any one would send me a broader, sharper hoe, I'd use it on those ugly weeds and cut more with one blow; but till I got a better hoe, I'd work away with Bobbie's.

"I reckon he 's got away," he said, as he set the hoe up again by the door.