The author has seen women, in Munich, carrying HODS of bricks and mortar up long ladders, where new buildings were being constructed, while hard by their lords and masters were drinking huge "schooners" of lager beer in taprooms, and lazily smoking foul tobacco.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
His working gear had suffered heavily, two of his windlasses were disabled, scaffolding, platforms, HODS, and loose planks had vanished; a few small tools only remained, mixed together in a mash of puddled lime.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Accordingly they set to work in earnest, and having no iron tools, picked up stones, and put them together as they happened to fit, and where mortar was needed, carried it on their backs for want of HODS, stooping down to make it stay on, and clasping their hands together behind to prevent it falling off; sparing no effort to be able to complete the most vulnerable points before the arrival of the Lacedaemonians, most of the place being sufficiently strong by nature without further fortifications.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides