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Originally Posted by HarryT
The book that I'm currently proof-reading (Anthony Trollope's "The Small House at Allington") had a somewhat surreal scene in which, in the middle of a Sunday afternoon outdoor games party, people suddenly started "howling on the lawn". It made a little more sense when, checking against my printed copy, "howling" became "bowling"  . |
I recently read the mobile reference version of the Barsetshire novels - while it doesn't have "howling on the lawn," it does have the phrase "to howl down the stumps of that young lady at Allington."