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Usage examples of hock.

Despite his bawling like a pig with a cut hock, no one did anything foolish, for which Liu Han was heartily glad.

Clio followed Hocking down the hatch in the flight-deck floor, she glimpsed Voris jumping up from her seat.

Here, as Captain Hocking squired her around, was the ship to leave all others in the dust.

From behind the row of crew standing at the back, she saw Captain Hocking and Commander Singh conferring on the semicircular platform in front of the viewports.

Clio pushed her way forward enough to see Hocking approach a lectern that was just now rising from the floor.

There, Hocking, Singh, and Voris hunched frantic at stations, as the scramble of voices piped over comm, and the dock slid by the viewports in a slow crawl.

Tandy and Licht broke off what they were saying as she and Hocking walked in.

Ashe hurried them along, guiding Hocking with a palm in his back, pushing him to keep pace.

Those that survived went back to the streets, leaving their children in the tender care of Jem Hocking and his wife.

See Jem Hocking in the street and a man might take him for a prosperous farmer up from the Vale of Kent.

The sight of the money, even a humble penny, was all the reassurance Hocking needed.

He glanced a last time at the text on the wall and wondered if Jem Hocking had ever considered the truth of it.

Meaning, Sharpe thought, that Hocking persecuted more than the workhouse inmates.

Pennies only, but pennies added up, and Hocking received them in the taproom where they vanished into a leather bag while a cowed white-haired clerk made notes in a ledger.

The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.