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This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions.

A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 Ian Maclaren 1878

This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions.

A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

But they came one after another, and by twos and threes, and there was the stamping of wet shoes, and the shaking out of wet plaids, and many a sneeze, and many a "hoast" (cough).

Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

AP Michigan State's Mark Dell, right, smiles after catching a touchdown pass against Northwestern's Brian Peters, left, during a fourth-quarter rally that lifted the No. 7 Spartans to a 35-27 victory over the hoast Wildcats.

College Football Saturday 2010

Giles Brandreth was harping on about something or other, probably the MP's expenses thing, and the potato-headed hoast, Adrian Chiles said something like, 'But if the American system of checks and balances is much better, how did we end up with eight years of George W. Bush?'

OPEN THREAD 2009

Fer instunce, at fansy dinnur party, if yer hoast survs yoo wif obercooked chikin, soggy vegetamabuls, an wine dat taysts like ayrplane fuelz, is berry rude to say in lowd voice PLEH!

New Puffs Plus - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Nao to b gest hoast foar “Inside the Actors Studio”….

Kitteh: 1 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

So, falling from one merry matter to another, yet without any mislike at all: the Gentlemen, having their horses prepared, and their Portmantues fastened behind, drinking to their hoast, mounted on horsebacke, and they roade away towards Florence, no lesse contented with the manner of occasions happened, then the effects they sorted to.

The Decameron 2004