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Example sentences for "pothouse"

Lexicographically close words:
potheen; pother; potherb; potholes; pothooks; potion; potions; potissimum; potitus; potius
  1. She never disgraced herself like that; and if he had sent the wench to service, or stopped her going down to that pothouse with the fellows, this would not have happened.

  2. Her thin lips hissed out, "Ay, if thee takes thee money to the pothouse thee won't get bacon for supper.

  3. Those of the other party were at his mercy, and the power of a pothouse politician was absolute.

  4. Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers and village witty bodies!

  5. I thought that catching at words had been confined to the pothouse farmers and village witty bodies.

  6. I am no conceited body; no newspaper Neddy; no pothouse witty person.

  7. They went on the impériale of the Versailles train and got out at Ville d'Avray, and found the kind of little pothouse they wanted.

  8. After this the Veroneses tried humbler spheres for the display of their talents, and in less than a week exhausted every pothouse and beer-tavern and low drinking-shop in Blankenberghe!

  9. The radical was cropping out again in the great hulking house-painter, the orator of Belleville, the pothouse politician, who drowned what few correct ideas he picked up here and there in a nauseous mixture of ineffable folly and falsehood.

  10. The son of the Prussian, the Prussian, as the pothouse wits of Remilly had styled him!

  11. Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers, and village witty bodies!

  12. He is now regarded as a pothouse politician, who ought never to have been allowed to get beyond the pothouse.

  13. From the Belleville pothouse I went to the Faubourg St. Germain.

  14. I made two visits this afternoon, one to a pothouse in Belleville, the other to a countess in the Faubourg St. Germain.

  15. The snorts and moans of the pothouse Werthers are as irritating, in the long run, as the bawling of a child, the squeak of a pig under a gate.

  16. Mrs Bull appeared to have done little else for a fortnight than go about from booth to pothouse for the purpose of signing her name!

  17. Even so, sir; for the people in the house will not permit another scene beyond that of your pothouse to be set.

  18. In less than a fortnight from that evening, Amy and Leicester were to be found ruralising together at a retired pothouse at Putney, or Clapham, or some such place, for their honeymoon!

  19. This luxury his footman procured, together with a tankard of ale from a pothouse in the immediate vicinity of the theatre.

  20. We returned to the Festubert pothouse in the evening.

  21. I only got out of the pothouse for twenty minutes all day, and that was at 5 P.

  22. A fountain of foam leapt up like a plume of smoke; the pothouse expert blew it to the winds, and drank till the jagged bottle stood on end upon his upturned visage.

  23. This was a peculiarly debased reprobate, a local character of pothouse notoriety, whose chief haunt was the courtyard of the Mitre, and whom the boys in the quad saluted familiarly as "Mulberry.

  24. An inspiring yell for Jeff Davis, from a tipsy ranchero, or incautious pothouse orator, is all that the Pacific Coast can offer.

  25. While the banks, business houses and factories are controlled by Northern men: while the pothouse politicians of Eastern cities struggle in ward elections, the South holds all the Federal honors.

  26. There is sure to be a pothouse of sorts, and we shall be late for the hotel luncheon anyway.

  27. The idea seemed to please Miss Virginia, and we hunted for the pothouse and found it in a corner.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pothouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alehouse; bar; barroom; cabaret; cafe; cantina; dive; local; lounge; nightclub; public; saloon; tap; taproom; tavern