No matterhow early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
2013, Diane Sullivan Everstine, Louis Everstine,Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster: Revised Edition, Routledge,→ISBN:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output andhow to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
1831, Nicolas Wanostrocht,A Grammar of the French Language: With Practical Exercises, page372:
How do you sell your brandy? We sell it by the gallon, and not by the bottle.
2005, Tim Stafford,Knowing the Face of God, Revised Edition: Deepening Your Personal Relationship with God, Wipf and Stock Publishers,→ISBN, page191:
How does God appear in these religions? Hinduism has a thousand faces for God, some likable, some horrible. You can pick and choose your preferred image. Buddhism does not even have an image of God, but concentrates on man.
How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
1906,Gibbons Stamp Weekly, page110:
A heap of stamps? Yes. Stamps they were indeed, hundreds of penny Queen's Heads neatly mounted on the original sheets. "Good God!" exclaimed Mr. Erskine as he turned to Mr. Sackville, "how am I to take this, sir?" said he severely. "Where are the real stamps? Were they ever inside, ever in your possession at all? If it is a joke, it is a very poor one."
By what title or what name.
1907, Edward Byles Cowell,The Jātaka: Or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, page44:
"How art thou called? Thy name make known; Thy father's name and family,—tell me thy father's and thine own."
2015, Edmond H. Weiss,The Elements of International English Style: A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience, Routledge,→ISBN, page111:
Salutation—How does one address the recipient; what titles, greetings, and honorifics are preferred; how does one manage the problem of unknown gender;[…]
Those were such happy times and not so long ago /How I wondered where they'd gone
2021 July 7,Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Denmark”, inBBC Sport[1]:
How England had to fight for victory against this steely Denmark with an inspired keeper inKasper Schmeichel, especially after conceding their first goal of the tournament toMikkel Damsgaard's stunning free-kick after 30 minutes.
How good is it? means "To what extent is it good?", whereasHow is it good? means "In what manner is it good?". Likewise,I know how good it is means "I know the extent to which it is good", whereasI know how it is good means "I know the manner in which it is good".
“There’s this real Al Capone fear that they’re going to get our guys, not on marijuana, but on something else,” Mr. Edson said, referring tohow Capone was eventually charged with tax evasion rather than criminal activity.
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1924, Joseph Rickaby,Studies on God and His Creatures, page102:
It is ana posteriori argument, evincing the fact, but not thehow.
2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, inNew York Times[2]:
A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculativehows of a 1971 London bank heist.
1928,Lewis Spence,Mysteries of Britain, pagev. 136:
Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
1985, Jennifer Westwood,Albion, published1992, pagexi. 432:
The fairy feast inside thehowe (and this barrow is hill-sized) reminds one of nothing so much as a tale in the IcelandicEyrbyggia saga, written in the mid thirteenth century.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page80
