Hosts

Examples

• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He had, as I well knew, hosts of friends in Frizinghall; and he would be at no loss how to fill up his time until I returned to the hotel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end--and what comes next! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These, for the moment, took the unpleasant form of continuing to cling to her hosts after their return from Alaska. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Two other hosts under Peter got through and reached Constantinople, to the astonishment and dismay of the Emperor Alexius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hosts of stars are visible to-night, though their brilliancy is eclipsed by the splendour of the moon. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Mongol hosts then swept right across Asia to Russia (1235), an amazing march. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If the dead could know, or do know, how the living use them, who among the hosts of dead has found a more disinterested fidelity on earth than I? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There were hosts of these geniuses, and any reasonable person would have thought it honour enough to meet them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And now, hosts of bewildering and confused ideas came crowding on his mind. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When it was time to go, we bade our distinguished hosts good-bye, and they retired happy and contented to their apartments to count their spoons. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Carmella