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"Pothouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as a thing apart from her life—that is to say, she did not join the rest of the company at supper at the pothouse opposite, nor acknowledge the attentions of the mashers from the front row who waited at the shabby little stage door of a night. She was very charming to the other members of the company, especially the women, and the fact that she had enemies there was easily explained on the ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... manifestations were marked by the same narrowness. The class had once found a voice for its religious sentiments in Puritanism, with stern conceptions of duty and of a divine order of the universe. 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. Its own religion was that kind of vapid philanthropic sentiment which calls itself undenominational; a creed of maudlin benevolence from which all the deeper and sterner elements ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen
... catcher at words?" said I. "I thought that catching at words had been confined to the pothouse farmers and ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow |
Words linked to "Pothouse" : tavern, taproom, UK, alehouse, saloon, tap house, gin mill, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., free house, taphouse, public house, bar, pub, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Britain, barroom, ginmill |
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