hodman

1 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.

2 In turn he tried to learn a baker's calling, became a mason's hodman, secured work at the markets, but without ever fixing himself anywhere.

3 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.

4 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.

5 And he was weary already; sick at scouring the town, at earning twenty-five sous an hour from ignorant architects, who treated him like a hodman.

6 What you propose to do is much the same as doing nothing; it is no better than a hodman's work, and can be done by machinery.

7 Strength and Direction build the Temple: Strength, or Manual Labour, represented by the hodmen and quarrymen, and the rest of the "hands:" Direction, or Mental Labour, represented by the overseers.

8 Deal with the nostril as you will; I am but a hodman who bears the bricks, you are the heaven-born architect.

9 If you, dear good hodmen, would have but let me fall!

10 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.

11 As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road.

12 Mankind resembles the bricklayer and the hodman who help to raise an imposing edifice without any knowledge of the general plan.

13 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.

14 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.

15 "Then I must go as a hodman or a breaker of stones," said Brian, "for I mean to go."

16 And her first lesson causes her great surprise, for she hears Geraldine swearing like a hodman at the duke, who suffers with most ecstatic submissiveness.

17 Fancy a one-armed and legless hodman ascending the under side of a ladder to the roof, and reflect on the conveniences of gymnastic habits.

18 Journeymen masons feasted on venison pasties, carpenters' apprentices and hungry hodmen, for once in their lives stayed their appetites with roast pheasant and pat� de foie gras.

19 Mr Rollitt led the way with all the agility of a practical hodman.

20 He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman.

1 搬运工

hamal hod carrier porter remover bearer bummer razorback Sherpa heaver redcap removalist

2 雇工

help hand servant hind hireling

3 小工

laborer

4 苦工

slave toil fag travail drudgery drudge moil swink hard navigator fag out

5 雇佣文人

penster grub