pothouse

There the Parliament does approach to the virile virtues of the pothouse.

Well, there are your wages; the next time you waste them at a pothouse you get no more from me.

He calls him "the pothouse politician, the cafe critic.

"I'd felt the opening of the Void, and you could hardly have gotten bruised that way brawling in a pothouse."

Shall we dine together today in some sequestered pothouse, and go to some theatre afterwards?

There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring.

"A clever fellow under that pothouse manner.

It was unnecessary, that flattery, I knew, but I had learned pothouse habits as a soldier-of-fortune and could not in an instant lose them all.

He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse.

Say for ten thousand ten--and pothouse knaves, Brain-dizzied with a draught of morning ale.

Wilmer (Pothouse Road)

Explication and Epilogue Late that evening, two men sat drinking ale in a pothouse in Rosenlaui.

Even as it is, of course, the spirit of democracy frequently differs widely from the letter, and a pothouse is often a better test than a Parliament.

Rowlandson and Gilray did not fight merely because they were naturally pothouse pugilists; they fought because they had something to fight about.

It was therefore no surprise when we stopped to refresh ourselves at a pothouse on the edge of the tiny, half-abandoned settlement, to find Richard Brown awaiting us.

I curse King Geoffrey and his ministers and his satraps and public men, clean down to the lowest pothouse politico who advocates his cause.

Would you have us believe the oath of those who are themselves Whigs, Presbyterians, Somersetshire ranters, the pothouse companions of the men whom we are trying?

The host came out, cap in hand, and the provost enquired of him with a swaggering air if his pothouse was large enough to accommodate his troop, men and horses.

Across the road from this pothouse, the men had erected a crude shelter for the horses, roofed with pine boughs and walled on one side with more branches to break the wind.

The 1936 film 'The Gorgeous Hussy', starring Joan Crawford as Peggy O'Neill, offered a fictional account of the life and loves of "Pothouse" Peg.

He had not yet had time to gather any of his pothouse companions into his uncle's home, and repeated recourse to the whiskey bottle only increased his longing for something to relieve the monotony.

Just think of his life in a Lambeth pothouse, and all its evil influences, with a parent who doesn't want him, and has, indeed, hardly seen him, and a stepfather who doesn't know him.

In my imagination, I am writing this to you from the Public Bar of The Bell at Wash Common, in my memory a happy, beery, old pothouse kept by my friend Jim Spencer long ago.

The place was depressingly reminiscent of the landscape near the silkies' isle, with the smell of dead seaweed strong in the air, and the crashing of waves so loud as to inhibit conversation, even inside the small pothouse by the wharf.

Joseph Robinson had blessed his luck to marry a woman who had a certain expectation of such a fine spot and his vigorous commerce had turned a pothouse into a stopover for some of the best in the county, in the land even.