How To Use dosshouse In A Sentence
- If he were not afraid of him he would long ago have evicted him from the dosshouse. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
- Cut through the politically correct hedging and you find that what the council really wants is an unregistered dosshouse for habitual and unrepentant drunks and dropouts who are likely to be violent and don't want to be helped.
- The low-key manner is analytical, confiding, with a touch of the dosshouse philosopher engrossed in offbeat speculation.
- The house itself was of course unoccupied, but this shed, formerly a blacksmith's forge, was now turned into a "dosshouse," kept by a retired Captain named Creatures That Once Were Men
- And more and more hotheaded youths flocked to hear the exciting preacher with his rebel message, his exciting-sounding 'combat training weekends' and his credit-card fraud and benefit-cheating base in the dosshouse set up - where the women's worship area in the Mosque basement had once been, in happier days. Some background reading...
- But I think he displays a real understanding and sympathy for his coster girls, criminals and dosshouse vagrants.
- Built in 1883, it served a brief period as a dosshouse before its relaunch as part of this sophisticated hotel chain.
- He either put some beggar against him, or himself threatened to rob and beat him, till the frightened mujik would disappear from the dosshouse and never more be seen. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
- The couple were more or less packed and ready to head for the fleshpots when they received a second, more frantic, call from the custodian of their upper-market London dosshouse.
- He was big and ugly, with a nose that had been spread half across his face, probably by a club, there wasn't a hair on his phiz or gleaming skull, the huge arms protruding from his vest were covered with tattoos, but what took the eye was that he was clieking away with knitting needles at a piece of woollen work - not a common sight in a waterfront dosshouse. THE NUMBERS
