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  • "Stand up then," he said, and added: "Ow's the new billet, U'nov?"

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • He looked at me in contempt, and grunted, "'Ow's it a'goin' ter rain with the bloomin 'sun a' shinin '?"

    Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

  • "'Ow's this?" he growled sharply, and in some surprise.

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • "'Ow's a man to' eave a bloody thing at a bloody stike?"

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • It was exactly as a faint cry of "'Ow's yer father?" came from a long way off that a curtain just beside them moved, and a man, crouching slightly, came out of a screened dug-out shaft into the trench.

    No Man's Land 1912

  • The two parties were going to enter at different points and move towards one another, the leading men of each ceaselessly calling out, "'Ow's yer father?"

    No Man's Land 1912

  • "Ow's that, sir?" he cheerily asked me, over my shoulder; but it seemed to me there was a strained, nervous note in his voice.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • I told him, he said, 'Ow's anyone to know _that_?'

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "Ow's that-a-tat-tat? ow's that?" cried Knapp, racing up from behind, and came down with a flourish and a thump on the swordsman's head as he thrust.

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • "'Ow's yer bloomin' 'ealth?" remarked the drug clerk.

    Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales 1889

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