HOWELLS

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• HOWELLS (noun)
  The noun HOWELLS has 1 sense:

1. United States writer and editor (1837-1920)

  Familiarity information: HOWELLS used as a noun is very rare.

• HOWELLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer and editor (1837-1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Howells; William Dean Howells

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

As I left the dining-room I happened to meet Rachel Howells, the maid.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would try by a few attentions to make his peace with the girl Howells, and then would engage her as his accomplice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For two days Rachel Howells had been so ill, sometimes delirious, sometimes hysterical, that a nurse had been employed to sit up with her at night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This strange find was all that we could get from the mere, and, although we made every possible search and inquiry yesterday, we know nothing of the fate either of Rachel Howells or of Richard Brunton.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head gamekeeper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but one only, and that if I could read the Musgrave Ritual aright I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)