| They used their backs as hods to carry mud, clasping their hands low down behind them and letting their companions load them up. |
| Were going to keep right on fillin the hods, and if anybody forgets when its his turn, Im goin to beat him on the bean. |
| Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders. |
| Up on the plains old hods he got and there his trouble began. |
| Success began to look not like an aurora, but like a solid structure built of bricks that must be carried in hods. |
| From the days of the Pharaohs they had carried their bricks and their mortar in hods on their heads or on their shoulders. |
