Read full poem →As ’e can’t ’ear me? Not the word I’d say
To tell ’e how I loved ’e?
Ah, now I be in ’ell, I be in ’ell!
Dictionary Entry
The means by which something is accomplished.
In a Sentence
“I am not interested in the why, but in the how.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
much howmany howlong howhow knowhow seehow matterhow show
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Poetry examples for “how”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →JOAN. No one I know. No--only you. What? You say you saw him on the
road, coming? How do you know that it was ’im? Yes--yes--’e was like
that. But younger, ’andsomer than that,--not lame----
Read full poem →A-building him, we didn’t ever know
How big he’d get to be--he seemed to grow
All by himself!
Read full poem →Soon as my back is turned. That heap o’ snow
How long’s that to stay there, I’d like to know?
Here, take your milk, and there’s a bit o’ bread
Read full poem →Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
Read full poem →Of the wrong my father did?
How long, how long, till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother's curse?
Read full poem →With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
Read full poem →Winter past and winter's pains.
How the sky in pool and brook
Glitters on the grassy plains.