"howlet" hidden in books

he only waited long enough the

It certainly was dull dreary work to hold the citadel of No. 14 Fitzgeorge-street, against the besieger Poverty; but the dentist stood his ground pertinaciously, knowing that if he only waited long enough, the dupe who was to be his victim would come, and knowing also that there might arrive a day when it would be very useful for him to be able to refer to four years' unblemished respectability as a Bloomsbury householder.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

heard or was likely ever to

He did not get much benefit from Mr. Sclater's sermons: I confess he did not attend very closely to his preaching—often directed against doctrinal errors of which, except from himself, not one of his congregation had ever heard, or was likely ever to hear.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

he only works long enough to

He only stops when driven to it by necessity, then he only works long enough to save up a grub-stake and he's off for the hills again.
— from The Gold Girl by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

her own with less effort than

They were doing their utmost, but she easily held her own with less effort than they showed.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis

habit of writing letters except to

I did not mean them to be that of course; but I am not at all in the habit of writing letters except to people I am very intimate with.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

hurried off was lucky enough to

So I hurried off, was lucky enough to get a taxi, and reached her place within ten minutes of getting her message.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

heard or were likely ever to

[pg 64] ever heard, or were likely ever to hear any thing again.
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

heathen Olympus was large enough to

The heathen Olympus was large enough to contain six thousand gods, make then a little space, ye gods of old France, for the Scandinavian and Teutonic gods.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

had only waited long enough to

He had only waited long enough to snatch his rifle from the top of the pack on the burro that had been given into his charge after his own had been lost in the mountain disaster.
— from Boy Scouts on the Open Plains; Or, The Round-Up Not Ordered by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

health of workmen leading especially to

There is a long list of “dusty trades” in which the production of excessive dust has notoriously evil effects upon the health of workmen, leading especially to pulmonary diseases; sometimes to various kinds of poisoning.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

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