They helped at the gardens, these old men, and as they rested on their hoes and listened to the laughter of the women and children, they said one to the other: "Our camp is as it was in the days when game was plenty.
Many of the hoesand spears had been taken from the slaving parties whose captives we liberated; for on these occasions our Senna friends were always uncommonly zealous and active.
A few days afterwards, a good chance of investing in hoes offering itself, he ripped off both sides, tore them into a dozen pieces, and purchased about a dozen hoes with them.
The Gentleman's name who delineated the Road for me toHoes Ferry is Thompson.
Native manufactured iron is so good that the natives declare English iron "rotten" in comparison, and specimens of African hoes were pronounced at Birmingham nearly equal to the best Swedish iron.
In place of the common hoe drill of a form used in the early part of the century, the hoes being forced into the soil by the use of levers and weights, what are known as "shoe drills" have largely succeeded.
He has great difficulty sometimes in inducing them to take their hoes and go out to the field along with the men; it was the case particularly with the mothers!
He immediately rode to the estate and found the people standing with their hoes in their hands doing nothing.
The men and women were intermingled; the latter kept pace with the former, wielding theirhoes with energy and effect.
As we approached the laborers, the manager pointed out one company of ten, who were at work with their hoes by the side of the road, while a larger one of thirty were in the middle of the field.
On the following morning, as I was handing to each of the hands their hoes from the tool house, I caught Harry's eye.
I saw wooden hoes used for tilling the soil in the Bechuana and Bataka countries, but never stone ones.
In the spring of the year we was hoein' and when they quit at night they'd leave the hoes in the field, stickin' down in the ground.
It's bad luck to carry hoes and rakes in the living house.
In the action of this stanza the seven dancers in the front row make seven ceremonial hills, mellowing the earth with the wooden hoes and gathering it into little hills made smooth on top.
When singing the fourth line all should begin to stir, to adjust their pouches, tighten their hold on the wooden hoes and, as if moved by a common impulse, should prepare to go and seek the source of the call.
During a repeat of the refrain the dancers should drop their hoes and gather in groups as if to look at the field; this action will bring them into the position required for the fifth stanza.
As the first line of the first stanza is sung the dancers should stand in a loose group, adjust their hoes and pouches to be ready to go to the "field"; during the singing of the second line they should break into a file and move off.
The action for the last stanza should indicate an abandonment to delight; hoes should be dropped as the groups mingle and act out pleasure not only at what is seen but what is promised.
He immediately rode to the estate, and found the laborers, with hoes in their hands, doing nothing.
They were in working clothes, with hoes and pickaxes on their shoulders.
In the Museum of the Deutsche Gesellschaft at Leipzig, is a greenstone implement resembling these adzes or hoes at its broader end, but at the other, instead of being square or rounded, presenting an axe-like edge.
The so-called stone hoesof North America[668] are not perforated, though sometimes notched at the sides.
As has already been suggested, it is by no means improbable that some of these ruder unpolished implements were employed in agriculture, like the so-called shovels and hoes of flint of North America, described by Professor Rau.
I hoes a little cotton, picks plums and blackberries but dewberries 'bout played out.
My daddy was de blacksmith for Mr. Jackie Davis en he could make plows en hoes en all dem kind of things.
Dey jes take de rice en beat it 'cross somehoes dat dey hab fix up somewhey dere on de plantation.
Everywhere were busy people with ploughs and cultivators, hoes and rakes, and I was with them wherever there was work to be done.
With the sounding of the horn the hoes were left in the field or put on the shoulder for the march to the barn, where, in its little room, the toilet for meals was made.
He gave them warm clothes for defence against the cold, and plough-shares and hoes for plentiful harvests.
But then, you see, we have no hoes to dig clams with; and we want some eggs, potatoes, and apples to bake with them.
As dull as a hoe," is a very common phrase, and implies that hoes are necessarily or ordinarily dull.
But it is advisible for farmers to keep their hoes sharp, as they regard a saving of labor.
Among them was the old chief whom we had seen on the day of our capture; a number of the men had hoes and other implements of agriculture.
Next day we were called up at early dawn, and the hoes again were put into our hands.
A little up the sand the Indians stopped; several who kept to the rear were squaws, with hoes of clam-shell and baskets, but at the front were two warriors, who now came noiselessly down the beach.
In between, the green corn straggled up, and several squaws were tending it with hoes made of great clam-shells.
There are no instances of hoes with metal blades, except of very late time, nor is there any proof of the plowshare having been sheathed with metal.
No wonder that during the rest of the day Blue Bill wears an air of abstraction, and hoes the tobacco plants with a careless hand, often chopping off the leaves.
Even their conversation is hushed, or carried on in a subdued tone; the hoes being alone heard, as their steel blades clink against an occasional "donick.
Could we have any doubt of the madness of the man who would propose that all iron hoes should be abolished, to furnish more extensive employ to labourers who should be provided only with a crooked stick cut out of a hedge?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
