howff

How to use howff in a sentence

• It was a great howff, o' Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and inded it's a bieldy bit.

  Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) | Various

• There the high-class advocate received his clients, and the physician his patients—each practitioner having his peculiar howff.

  Allan Ramsay | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

• Logan nipped the guard of his arm in heavy playfulness and led him to the howff.

  The House with the Green Shutters | George Douglas Brown

• The company had not long left the howff, as Blane's public-house was called, when the trumpets and kettle-drums sounded.

  Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated | Sir Walter Scott

• Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the howff and escape them.

  The House with the Green Shutters | George Douglas Brown