Use hodder in a sentence
Sentences starting with hodder
- Hodder recalled the words Mr. Bentley had spoken, "It is her place. [9]
- Hodder repeated the word, as one groping on the threshold of a great discovery . [9]
- Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
- Hodder resumed his walk more slowly, and in a few minutes reached his rooms in the parish house. [9]
- Hodder could have vouched for it, and yet he had kept his own counsel. [9]
- Hodder was suddenly unstrung, and the kindly old gentleman beside him seemed for the instant the only fixture in a chaotic universe. [9]
- Hodder told him to bring champagne. [9]
- Hodder can't see this thing as it is. [9]
- Hodder paused in the window. [9]
- Hodder went to the window and thoughtfully watched the hurrying figure of Mr. Atterbury until it disappeared, almost skipping, around the corner . [9]
Sentences ending with hodder
- No one, unfortunately, was perfect in this life,--not even Mr. Hodder. [9]
- As the rector turned, mechanically, to pick up his hat, Mr. Bentley added "You will come back, Hodder? [9]
- In these days the remembrance of that article came back to Hodder. [9]
- Ah, you have something before you, Mr. Hodder. [9]
- Alison presented a perplexed face to Hodder. [9]
- There was a note of enthusiasm, almost of militancy in the old gentleman's tone that surprised and agitated Hodder. [9]
- He doesn't talk much, but I've got an idea, from one or two things he let drop, that he's a little suspicious of a change in Hodder. [9]
- You have moved me, you have given me more hope and courage than I have had for many a long year--and I thank you, Mr. Hodder. [9]
- Others had spoken in a similar strain, and it is a certain tribute to his character to record that the underlying hint had been lost on Hodder. [9]
- And I feel I am stating a difficulty that many have, Mr. Hodder. [9]
Short sentences using hodder
- Hodder went down the stairs. [9]
- Mr. Hodder would take them? [9]
- Hodder found himself smiling. [9]
- Hodder surveyed the ruins. [9]
- Hodder refrained from pressing him. [9]
- All this Hodder performed mechanically. [9]
- Has Mr. Hodder offended him? [9]
- Hodder accused himself of cowardice. [9]
- Hodder met his look. [9]
- She turned to Hodder. [9]
Sentences containing hodder two or more times
- Her glance at Gordon Atterbury in the midst of that gentleman's felicitations on the sermon had been expressive, Hodder thought, of veiled amusement slightly tinctured with contempt; and he, Hodder, felt himself to have grown warm over it. [9]
- He could speak for himself and for a number of people in the congregation when he reiterated his opinion that they were honestly shocked at what Mr. Hodder had preached, and that this was his sole motive in requesting Mr. Hodder to resign. [9]
More example sentences with the word hodder in them
- It was this yearning that attracted Hodder, who found in it a deep pathos. [9]
- Now comes Hodder with what I sincerely believe is the key. [9]
- For these reasons, with much sorrow and regret, I venture to suggest to the vestry that Mr. Hodder resign as our rector. [9]
- And Hodder had, with an audacity unparalleled in the banker's experience arraigned by implication his whole life, managed to put him on the defensive. [9]
- In short, Hodder wished to go into battle side by side with McCrae. [9]
- Nor was it wholly anger, Hodder, but a queer tangle of feelings I can't describe. [9]
- An interval, during which Hodder was suddenly struck with this designation of himself. [9]
- This laughter, in which Hodder joined, seemed suddenly to put them on a new footing--a little surprising to both. [9]
- And Hodder wondered whether, in the swift onward roll of things, the time would come when this, too, would have been deemed ephemeral. [9]
- And since then, when talking to him, Hodder had had a feeling that Mr. Engel was not unconscious of the aura--if it may be called such--of his vestry. [9]
- The next morning, when Hodder entered his study, he sighed as his eye fell upon the unusual pile of letters on his desk, for their writers had once been his friends. [9]
- Now Hodder saw what the little librarian had meant by an authority restored. [9]
- What his thoughts were, Hodder could not surmise; for he seemed again, marvellously, to have regained the outward peace which was the symbol of banishment from the inner man of all thought of self. [9]
- If Eldon Parr were Procrustes he, Hodder, had fitted the bed, and to say the least, this was extraordinary, if not a little disquieting. [9]
- I believe I went out of sheer curiosity to hear what Hodder would have to say. [9]
- And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude. [9]
- He, John Hodder, was to live under that cloud, to labour under it. [9]
- And yet he was rated one of the rich men of the city, and his name Hodder had read on many boards with Mr. Parr's! [9]
- Yes, the doctor was in would he speak to Mr. Hodder, of St. John's? [9]
- A great effort was demanded to summon up the now almost unimaginable experience of his confidence; of the evening when, almost on that very spot, he had revealed to Hodder the one weakness of his life. [9]
- You know there was a time, Mr. Hodder, when I didn't have much hope that we'd pull her through. [9]
- He would not vote to deprive Mr. Hodder of his salary. [9]
- It troubled him vaguely, for Mr. Parr was the aggressor; and often at dusk, when Hodder was working under his study lamp, the telephone would ring, and on taking down the receiver he would hear the banker's voice. [9]
- I've never got used to automobiles," he remarked to Hodder, "and I formerly went to church in the street-cars, but the distances have grown so great--and I have occasionally been annoyed in them. [9]
- The whole effect upon Hodder, in the state of mind in which he found himself, was reacting, stimulating, disquieting. [9]
- And Hodder, in truth, felt something great swelling within him, something that was not himself, and yet strangely was. [9]
- In the seminary, too, volumes by semi-learned clergymen had been thrust into his hands, efforts which Hodder recalled now, in spite of his mental state, with a smile. [9]
- If the man to whom he had listened could pour the light into the dark corners of other men's souls, he, John Hodder, felt the same hot spark within him,--despite the dark corners of his own! [9]
- What I'm trying to tell you is that I'm sure Mr. Hodder has worked it out. [9]
- Gradually Hodder began to realize something of their numbers. [9]
- He was second to none in his regard for Mr. Hodder, in his admiration for a man who had the courage of his convictions. [9]
- Finally, I have to meet a more serious charge, that Mr. Hodder remains in the Church because of "the dread of parting with the old, strong anchorage, the fear of anathema and criticism, the thought of sorrowing and disapproving friends. [9]
- The suspicion began to dawn on Hodder that the Scotch man's ideals were as high as his own. [9]
- Mrs. Larrabbee's temptation to be witty at the expense of those for whom she had no liking had led Hodder to discount the sketch. [9]
- He was inclined to attribute the depression through which he had passed, the disappointment he had undergone as a just punishment for an overabundance of ego,--only Hodder used the theological term for the same sin. [9]
- They passed along to an upstairs sitting-room, which must, Hodder thought, be directly over the dining-room. [9]
- From time to time, Hodder himself was uncomfortably aware of her presence, and he read in her upturned face an interest which, by a little stretch of the imagination, might have been deemed personal . [9]
- For the first time in his life, and as he looked at Hodder, the lawyer wondered. [9]
- The daughter of Thurston Gore, with all her astuteness and real estate, was of a naivete in regard to spiritual matters that Hodder had grown to recognize as impermeable. [9]
- At times he thought he recognized these in his conversation with the Reverend John Hodder at Bremerton,--especially in that last interview in the pleasant little study of the rectory overlooking Bremerton Lake. [9]
- The financier felt this, though it could not be said that Hodder appeared more at his ease: his previous silences had been by no means awkward. [9]
- But Hodder was thinking of that house whither they were bound with a new gratitude, a new wonder that it should exist. [9]
- I suppose you think me silly, but you'll grant, whatever Mr. Hodder may be, he isn't silly. [9]
- Hodder plainly heard the ticking of the clock on the mantel . [9]
- Then he heard the specialist say, "Hello, Mr. Hodder, what can I do for you? [9]
- And Hodder, following the sound, looked out across the grimy yard--to a window in the apartment house opposite. [9]
- Hodder clung to the shell of reality, to the tiny panorama of the visible and the finite, to the infinitesimal gropings that lay recorded before him on the printed page. [9]
- He had not the least doubt that Mr. Hodder did not desire to remain in the parish when it was so apparent that the doctrines which he now preached were not acceptable to most of those who supported the church. [9]
- In spite of the intensity of his own anguish, Hodder was conscious of a curious detachment; and for months afterward particular smells, the sight of a gasoline stove, a certain popular tune gave him a sharp twinge of pain. [9]
- And now that the hour was actually at hand, it seemed to Hodder that he was absurdly unprepared to meet it. [9]
- Hodder drew towards the fire the big chair in which it had been Langmaid's wont to sit, and perhaps it was the sight of this operation that loosed the lawyer's tongue. [9]
- At such times the fear grew upon Hodder that he might be recommended for trial, forced to abandon his fight to free the Church from the fetters that bound her: that the implacable hostility of his enemies would rob him of his opportunity. [9]
- As Hodder opened the door he saw a tall, slim figure of a woman with her back toward him. [9]
- And this, with the addition of the fact that he was painstaking and methodical in his duties, and that his sermons were orthodox in the sense that they were extremely non-committal, was all that Hodder knew about him for many months. [9]
- Why was it that, to Hodder, he should gradually have assumed something of the aspect of a Cerberus? [9]
- And Hodder perceived that the face, if the stamp of this expression could have been removed, was not unpleasing, although indulgence and recklessness were beginning to remould it. [9]
- But he decided that Mr. Hodder had not meant to imply that he, Mr. Parr, was attempting to supersede the dean. [9]
- He was not that man, but another--and still Mr. Hodder, of St. John's. [9]
- It was not that Hodder feared that his own solution was not the right one, but that McCrae might not find it so: he was intensely concerned that it should also be McCrae's solution--the answer, if one liked, to McCrae's mute and eternal questionings. [9]
- It was precisely ten o'clock in the morning when Hodder rang the bell and was shown into the ample study which he had entered on other and less vital occasions. [9]
- I shouldn't have suspected," he added, with a humorous glance at the rector, "that Mr. Hodder knew so much about embroidery. [9]
- None was more surprised than Hodder when Sally Grower informed him that the embroidery was really good; but it was thought best, for psychological reasons, to discard the old table-cover with its associations and begin a new one. [9]
- Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
- There was a stir at this, and Hodder paused a moment and glanced around the table. [9]
- Hodder smiled in spite of himself. [9]
- As for Hodder, something held him back--some dread that he could not at once define. [9]
- It was not so much that these opening words might have been startling to the strictly orthodox, but the added fact that Hodder had uttered them. [9]
- In the meantime, since Mr. Hodder has seen fit to remain in spite of our protest, I do not intend to enter this church. [9]
- There was a silence, brief, indeed, but long enough for Hodder to feel more and more distinctly the granite hardness which the other had become, to experience a rising, reenforcing anger. [9]
- Hodder read the sign on a lamp post, Dalton Street. [9]
- He breathed a sigh of relief at the opening words of Hodder, who followed him. [9]
- If Mr. Hodder should begin to preach the modern heresy which you desire, Mr Parr might object. [9]
- To Hodder, the sense of their isolation had never been more complete. [9]
- Hodder had not seemed to notice it. [9]
- Little Tomkinson, the second assistant, had resigned; and McCrae, who worked harder than ever before, was already marked, Hodder knew, for dismissal if he himself were defeated. [9]
- But religion, Hodder saw, was trusting. [9]
- Hodder, who had saved a certain sum in past years, would take nothing for the present . [9]
- And it was Sally who must be given credit for the great experiment, although she took Mr. Bentley and Hodder into her confidence. [9]
- Once, in her reverie, her thoughts reverted to another Sunday when Hodder had sat, an honoured guest, in the chair which Mr. Langmaid now occupied . [9]
- After announcing the result, Hodder rose. [9]
- Hodder did not reply at once. [9]
- Hodder did not relish half truths; and he felt that, however scant his intercourse in the future might be with Alison Parr, he would have liked to have kept it on that basis of frankness in which it had begun. [9]
- Hodder, as he read it over again, smiled to himself. [9]
- But Mr. Hodder puts it so --it makes one wonder. [9]
- Hodder left, too preoccupied to draw any significance from the nature of his welcome. [9]
- When I saw Plimpton at the Country Club the other day he wondered, in that genial, off-hand manner of his, whether Hodder would continue to be satisfied with St. John's. [9]
- Turning over that phrase in his mind, Hodder went slowly back towards the parish house. [9]
- What animated these persons who had struggled over her so desperately, Sally Grower, Mr. Bentley, and Hodder himself? [9]
- Scarcely a day passed that Phil did not drop in at the parish house.... And he set himself, with all the vigour of an unsquandered manhood, to help Hodder to solve the multitude of new problems by which they were beset. [9]
- Hodder, through Mr. Parr's intervention, had gone to one of these, ably and breezily presided over by the versatile Mr. Plimpton. [9]
- And I've always owned up that Hodder would be a fighter if he ever got started. [9]
- If Hodder has our point of view, he ought to go into the law or a trust company. [9]
- Was this the orthodox Mr. Hodder of St. John's? [9]
- Hodder kept an open mind, but he became a pragmatist so far. [9]
- Hodder felt not only curiosity and sympathy, but a vexing sense of the fruitlessness of his visits to Park Street. [9]
- Hodder sat down on the other side of the fireplace. [9]
- Eleanor Goodrich bore on her features the stamp of true nobility of character, and her husband, Hodder knew, was a man among men. [9]
- The wrinkled, hospitable old darky actually seemed to radiate something of the personality with which he had so long been associated, and Hodder was conscious of a surge of relief, a return of confidence at sight of him. [9]
- The very horror of what Eldon Parr was now to suffer turned Hodder cold as he rang the bell and listened for the soft tread of the servant who would answer his summons. [9]
- In the course of this discussion, he declared, Mr. Hodder had seen fit to make grave and in his opinion unwarranted charges concerning the lives of some, if not all, of the gentlemen who sat here. [9]
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