Hoze

Then he turned, rather despondent, for he knew that the next day there would be an expedition ashore, when visits would be paid to the farm and to the Hoze, and he felt uncomfortable about the Graemes.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Sir Risdon would mind if I sent him a few fish up to the Hoze? '

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Ram was used to the business, and he went off at a trot, breasted the hill, dived down into the hollow, and then passing men going and coming, made for the Hoze, entered by the side door, made his way along a stone passage, and then down into a huge vault with groined roof lit by a couple of lanthorns hanging from hooks.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Celia wandered on and on toward the highest of the hills away west of the Hoze.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Hoze, while Mrs Shackle sighed, for she knew that something particular must be on the way, or Ram would not have been sent off, and her husband have prepared to go out directly after.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Graeme's old house, the Hoze, till all the bearers were gone, and the kegs still kept coming up out of the fog.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

Gurr turned away impatiently again, and signing to his men to follow, they all began to tramp up the steep track leading toward the Hoze, with the rabbits scuttling away among the furze, and showing their white cottony tails for a moment as they darted down into their holes.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

A little consideration told him that the first was at the farm; the other high up, facing toward the sea, must be up at the Hoze.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

He had accidentally hit upon the place where the cargo had been hidden, and it must be in the cellar of the Hoze, and not in the wood.

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

"Er -- if you would be good enough to send a little fish -- of course very fresh, Master Shackle, and a few eggs, and a little butter to the Hoze, and let me have your bill by and by, I should be gratified."

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870