pothouse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Sealed in blood!" croaks Long John Silver to his sidekick, Jim Hawkins, as they skulk in the corner of a dingy pothouse and plot their return to Treasure Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kipling, with "Kim" behind him, becomes a vociferous leader-writer of the Daily Mail school, whooping a pothouse patriotism, hurling hysterical objurgations at the foe.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
And now, by Heaven, She stoops below me; condescends upon This hero of the pothouse, whose exploits, Writ in my character from my last place, Would damn me into ostlerdom.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
But in its present mood it could see the Puritan leaders represented by a wretched Stiggins—a pothouse Tartufe just capable of imposing upon the friends of Mrs. Gamp.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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