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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word howff? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| He was well known for carousing, of course, and described the Globe Inn in the town as his favourite howff. |
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| Joe had sneaked to the urn, then hid his filled tea-can under his overalls as he made his way back to the howff. |
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| Milne's bar, the legendary literary howff in Edinburgh's Hanover Street, has been given a makeover. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| When they left the howff they went to Gillespie's and drank more, and after that they roamed about the town. |
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| Last winter, however, it was simply a weak need for companionship that drew him to the howff. |
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| At the end of ten minutes he would be gaping across the table, and wondering what they were doing at the howff. |
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| The howff seemed full and frequented as if possessed of all its old celebrity. |
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| So now, every night, he saw the cosy companions in their howff, and shivered at his own isolation. |
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| The company had not long left the howff, as Blane's public-house was called, when the trumpets and kettle-drums sounded. |
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| Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the howff and escape them. |
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| Harm himself he did, for you could not associate with Jock M'Craw and the like without drinking in every howff you came across. |
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