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Africa (DPSA) Cape District Schools Association - have warned that some schools can only hodd out until the beginning of February before closing down.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

If a gent carn't be civil without being scowled at, it's hodd.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

Celia that it really was "a very hodd thing that the people of this country seemed not to have all their senses."

The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

"'E said, sir ... mile, but knowing the hodd way they count distances away from the cities, sir, I'm' ardly 'oping to see it under two mile -- hif that."

Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Mr. Rummles, him as I mentioned to you afore, and a nice pleasant-spoken gentleman he was, too -- in the tea trade -- Mr. Rummles, he allus sent round for me whenever there was hany odd jobs as wanted doin ', and in course I was allus pleased to get 'em, be they hodd or hotherwise.'

The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

"I told mother she moight as well give it he – a hodd shoe's no good to nobody."

Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story 1887

I'm comin 'yere Saturday night -- not to stay, bless yer! no, but to do hodd jobs for her; for one thing, to look arter you when she's out.

Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884

I 'ain't got one stitch, miss, but what I stand up in --' cep 'it be a hodd glove an' 'alf a pocket-'an'kercher.

Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864

I 'eard a fellow as vos there say, that they used to steal hoff at night and' av hodd sport and leave none to tell the tale in the mornin.

Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Scian Dubh 1855

"No. It's hodd," said Beck, musingly, "but the more I lines it, the vorse I sleeps."

Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838