The ingredients of hodge-podge exist in rerum natura, and the place they occupy and the function they fulfil in it are no less deserving of our inquisitive regard.
A hodge-podge it undoubtedly was, an amalgam of ancient Manichaeism and elements of eastern origin, which were not Christian at all but Mazdeist, together with certain features of pure Christianity.
It has been termed 'a hodge-podge of pagan dualism and gospel teaching, given to the world as a sort of reformed Christianity.
The prison dated from the middle of the century and a hodge-podge of official architecture had been added, decade by decade, as the political bosses needed money.
And we try to govern it by Roman law, plus a hodge podge of mediaeval common law.
The matriculation examination as it obtains at the London University embraces a hodge-podge of study, a great part of which is of no absolute service to the clerical student in his career.
This is a crude hodge-podge of facts which the author has picked up here and there, in which he utterly fails to distinguish between the natural, the diabolical, and the divine.
Mrs Podge extended her hand, Mr Sharp dropped the piece of gold into it, and then, wishing her good afternoon, quitted the house.
Otherwise the whole affair was a hodge-podge of petty people and ignoble motives--of Una and Wilkins and S.
He also saw us work yesterday afternoon in the scratch game, and when I asked him how we compared with Keyport, why Podge wouldn't give me a straight answer; but only grinned and turned the subject.
Evidently then Podge doesn't have the confidence in his school team that he ought to feel," said Hugh, apparently not at all disturbed.
What a muddle, what a hodge-podge I have made of this pen work!
The Shattered Health of Mr. Podge "How are you, Podge?
I suppose," I said, "poor Podge didn't realise that he was going to die.
Open that cupboard, one of those sixpenny books tells Podge that he's made of hard little black things, another that he's made of brown things, larger and squashy.
On this particular occasion, having hitched up the team we crept out to the ice edge, Podge following at my heels.
We shot two, both of which Podge dived after and retrieved, to the unbounded joy both of ourselves and his four-footed chums, who more than gladly shared the carcasses with him later.
He smiled at the disorganized troops, the disordered finances, the conflicting interests in the hodge-podge of territories which his rival had inherited from her father.
A great deal more real than one would believe as he viewed that hodge-podge painting of Vernet's.
She kept her word, and out of the hodge-podge of an opera book which stands unrivalled for its stiltedness of speech, she succeeded in creating one of her most notable characters.
Very little attention is paid to composers; none at all to operas, if one may except such meagre descriptions as that accorded to Julien, "a hodge-podge of operatic efforts that brought little satisfaction to anybody concerned in it.
Finally the agitation against the trusts has developed a confused hodge-podge of harmless and deadly, overlapping and mutually exclusive, remedies, which are the cause of endless disagreements.
It became equivalent to a hodge-podge of policies and purposes, the incompatibility of whose ingredients was concealed behind a smooth crust of constitutional legality and popular acquiescence.
Granted that this miscellaneous hodge-podge is the cream of current literature, is it profitable to the reader?
The discourses by which this blasphemous humbug supported his pretensions were a hodge-podge of impiety and utter nonsense, with rants, curses and cries, and frightful threats against all objectors.
These precious conceits are set forth in a ridiculous hodge-podge of statements.
A hodge-podge of magic, masonry, and Oriental witchcraft.
Agnes left the room, and Duff Salter and Podge were again together.
As Duff Salter entered the house he saw the school director indicated by Calvin Van de Lear sitting in the parlor withPodge Byerly.
Podge read the note, and her tears dropped upon it.
Podge fled from his side with alarm; he saw her handkerchief staunching her tears, and people watching her as she nearly ran along the sidewalk.
Podge Byerly reappeared with a pack of cards and shuffled them before Duff Salter's face.
Podge strained to look through the illusion, and walked down the aisle once, where it seemed to be, and touched the plaster of the wall.
Podge felt a sense of strangling, as if going down, in a hollow gulf of resounding wave, and shouted: "Help!
Podge could barely read a question in the book, and the sound of her voice was like gravel or sand pushed off the wharf into the river and swallowed there.
He looks scared out of last year's growth," remarked Podge Byerly when Duff Salter came down-stairs next day.
After breakfast he followed Podge Byerly down Queen Street and through Beach, and came up with her as she went out of Kensington to the Delaware water-front about the old Northern Liberties district.
Podge arrived at school just as the bell was ringing, and, still in nervousness and tears, took her place in her division while the Bible was read.
He produced a tortoise-shell snuff-box, and Podge took a pinch, for fun, and sneezed until the tears came to her eyes and her hair was shaken down.
Duff Salter frequently walked almost to her school with Podge Byerly, which was far down in the old city.
Upon my word," thought Podge Byerly, "I believe this old gray rat is a detective officer!
Duff Salter acknowledged it as he looked in Podge Byerly's blue eyes and felt her hands as they wrapped his scarf around him, or buttoned his gloves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "podge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
