As far as I can tell, the term "pothouse" chiefly meant a tavern, but was sometimes used to describe a building in which pottery was made. From Wordnik.com. [The intire account of fome incidents from 257 years ago] Reference
British Empire as you will see any afternoon in this remote pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
I think pothouse is a place wherein the fishermen keep their wicker lobster pots, wicker fish pots and etc. From Wordnik.com. [The intire account of fome incidents from 257 years ago] Reference
"I'd felt the opening of the Void, and you could hardly have gotten bruised that way brawling in a pothouse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
The prejudice of Browning was synonymous with his profound contempt for certain things of which he can only speak 'in pothouse words.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
"How is your pothouse getting on?" he asked again. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark Of Cain] Reference
We returned to the Festubert pothouse in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915] Reference
Don't believe in your pothouse nunneries -- not a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
'You can't foretell weather!' cried a pothouse sceptic. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
As to Sunday museuming being an antidote to the pothouse -- no. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
If one goes into a pothouse one finds one's horse gone; if one takes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories] Reference
The once famous hostelry had become a haunt for pothouse politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow] Reference
I am no conceited body; no newspaper Neddy; no pothouse witty person. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers and village witty bodies!. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"] Reference
Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers, and village witty bodies!. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
You know that I have been discussed by every pothouse villain in the land?. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Judgment] Reference
The parsons he had spoken to were of one voice in objecting to the pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
As his home is cold and cheerless, when he is not on duty he lives at a pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
"Oh, stop this pothouse talk," put in Hilton, giving the blusterer a contemptuous glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
Well, there are your wages; the next time you waste them at a pothouse you get no more from me. From Wordnik.com. [Becket and other plays] Reference
Politics in St. Louis is practiced by the pimps and pothouse habitues, just as in other cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Versailles train and got out at Ville d'Avray, and found the kind of little pothouse they wanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Well, he'd make a point then of being dirty, greasy, pothouse in his manners and he wouldn't care!. From Wordnik.com. [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference
Demetrios, having gleaned this knowledge in a pothouse, purchased a stout file, a scarlet cap and a lute. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
Yet such pothouse dissipation seemed to satisfy them, since they took not only a pleasure in it, but a pride. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ibbetson] Reference
He is now regarded as a pothouse politician, who ought never to have been allowed to get beyond the pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
The poet seems to feel that there are some things so contemptible that you can only speak of them in pothouse words. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
A lot of non-commissioned officers, just in front of the barrack gates, quarreling like drunken sailors in a pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Buglers] Reference
I made two visits this afternoon, one to a pothouse in Belleville, the other to a countess in the Faubourg St. Germain. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
Cavalry Brigade, and we should have been in front of our own lot; so after a depressing wait in a tiny pothouse near Dranoutre, whilst St. From Wordnik.com. [The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915] Reference
On account of its being, to some extent, a pleasant spot, it was resorted to on Sundays by all sorts of revellers and was a low pothouse. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam] Reference
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