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  • “Repeat them,” answered the Lady; and he uttered, in a low tone, the lines from an old poem, called The Howlet, — “O Douglas!

    The Abbot 2008

  • "Howlet," said the other impressively, "d'ye think the Wilkins is livin 'in the same place still?"

    Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories 1859

  • Chef Christine Nunn discusses the menu with current NJ chapter President, Efrain Raices (right), and John Howlet (left), a past president of the NJ chapter and the current Vice President of Les Marmitons International.

    April « 2010 « Off The Broiler 2010

  • Howlet-hirst to his comrades; “I trow the Glendinnings may die and come alive right oft, ere I put foot in stirrup again for the matter.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • Howlet-hirst, “has murdered young Halbert Glendinning yesterday morning, and we have all risen to the fray.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • And when the ex-dragon stood on the floor of the church, he presented to Halbert Glendinning the well-known countenance of Dan of the Howlet-hirst, an ancient comrade of his own, ere fate had raised him so high above the rank to which he was born.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Edward Glendinning hath sent for Dan of the Howlet-hirst, and young Adie of Aikenshaw, and they are come with three men more, and with bow, and jack, and spear, and I heard them say to each other, and to

    The Monastery 2008

  • Howlet-hirst, suddenly resisting the efforts of Woodcock, who was dragging him out of the church; when the quick military eye of Sir Halbert

    The Abbot 2008

  • Howlet was perfectly blind, and from the tone in which he was addressed by the other gentlemen, Jane concluded he was also very nearly deaf.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • When about the year 1580 certain English Catholics, under stress of grievous persecution, defended the lawfulness of attending Protestant services to escape the fines imposed on recusants, the Jesuit Father Persons published, under the pseudonym of Howlet, a clear exposition of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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