Seest thou all these servants and soldiers and riches and hoards and treasures?
I carried off of it what I could carry and said to myself, 'Were my brothers with me, they might take of this gold their fill and possess themselves of these hoards which have no owner.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from the shore; Hoards e'en beyond the misers wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.
Th'offended burgess hoards his angry tale, For that blessed year when all that vote may rail; Their schemes of spite the poet's foes dismiss, Till that glad night when all that hate may hiss.
So were they taught by kindred zeal, that they at camp oft 'gainst any robber their land should defend, their hoards and homes.
This year the Romans collected all the hoards of gold (14) that were in Britain; and some they hid in the earth, so that no man afterwards might find them, and some they carried away with them into Gaul.
Their forgotten engines were lying half buried in the ditches--the primeval structure which had served them for a banking- house was roofless, and held the hoards of field-mice and squirrels.
The positions of managers and manipulators of these huge hoards of the people's money have become the greatest financial prizes of the day.
The immense opportunities for profit afforded by the control of these great money hoards are taken advantage of in various ways.
Such a discovery would scarcely be more surprising than that of the Punic hoards found at Corvo, the most westerly island of the Azores.
Not only hoardsof Greek coins, minted in the fifth century B.
Hence when the first hoards of palæolithic flint implements were accidentally discovered in Sussex and Kent, their Celtic or British origin was assumed without question.
But he tells me that his grandmother is a miser and hoards up valuables just like a magpie.
She hoardsevery penny-piece, and then gloats over her money-box, by the firelight, when the rest of the camp is asleep.
Yes, my dear, it is for this they gather their hoards in mild weather; which also supports them in the spring months, and possibly even during the summer, till grain and fruit are ripe.
The red And blood-stained hidden hoards of gold They hollowed from the stout ship's hold, And bore in many a slim canoe-- To where?
Here the miser hoards health and money, his only two objects: he has chronicles in behalf of the air, and battens on tokay, his single indulgence, as he has heard it is particularly salutary.
Were there vast hoards of wealth hidden in that dark place, hoards which would make us the richest men in the whole world?
Wealth, too, I coveted, And heaped its shining dust in hoards around me, And yet it was but dust, as barren of Enjoyment as the ground we tread upon.
Thou shouldst not have heaped and hidden it here, Till the breath of battle was hot and near, But have sown through the land these useless hoards To spring into shining blades of swords, And keep thine honor sweet and clear.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.
There fed on dates and herbs, would I despise The far-fetched cates of luxury, and hoards Of narrow-hearted avarice; nor heed The distant din of the tumultuous world.
This account, however, includes some interesting notices of hoards discovered in his own day: "King Donald was the first king of Scottis that prentit ane penny of gold or silver.
The neighbourhood of Largo Bay is celebrated in the annals of Scottish Archæology for one of the most remarkable hoards ever discovered, described in a later chapter as the "silver armour of Norrie's Law.
Numerous other weapons and implements, of the same metal and character of workmanship, have been found in the Scottish tumuli, or in the chance hoards of bogs or alluvial deposits.
Several hoards have been discovered at different times in Scotland, of small gold pellets, marked with a cross or star in relief, and which, there can be little doubt, is the earliest Scottish minted money.
You know, of course, that there are many stories extant in this country as to the existence of vast hoards of buried treasure?
Take heed lest men should say: Like some old miser, Rustum hoards his fame, And shuns to peril it with younger men.
No glad pipings thrill The hedge-row elms, whose wind-worn branches shower Their leaves on the sere grass, where some late flower In golden chalice hoards the sunlight still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
