What is "porterhouse"

Usage examples of "porterhouse".

For two hours the members of Porterhouse were lost to the world, immersed in an ancient ritual that spanned the centuries.

A sturdy self-reliance except in scholarship is the mark of the Porterhouse man, and it is an exceptional year when Porterhouse is not Head of the River.

True, a few scholarships and exhibitions exist which must be filled by men whose talents do not run to means, but those who last soon acquire the hallmarks of a Porterhouse man.

After Porterhouse, he would remind himself on these occasions, a man has nothing left to fear.

To Porterhouse he owed his nerve, the nerve a few years later, while still a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, to propose to Mary Lacey, the only daughter of the Liberal Peer, the Earl of Sanderstead: the nerve to repeat the the proposal yearly and to accept her annual refusal with a gracelessness that had gradually convinced her of the depth of his feelings.

Yes, looking back over his long career Sir Godber could attribute much to Porterhouse and nothing more so than his determination to change once and for all the character of the college that had made him what he was.

Rapping his knife handle on the table for silence, the new Master of Porterhouse rose to his feet.

Someone laughed nervously, the short bark of the Porterhouse laugh, and then the benches were pushed back and they flooded out of the hall, their voices flowing out before them into the Court, into the cold night air.

For forty-five years Skullion had sat in the Lodge watching over the comings and goings of Porterhouse until it seemed he was as much a part of the College as the carved heraldic beasts on the tower above.

A lifetime of little duties easily attended to while the world outside stormed by in a maelstrom of change had bred in Skullion a devotion to the changelessness of Porterhouse traditions.

Even now as he walked back to Porterhouse through the snow-covered streets he was filled with foreboding and a tendency to waddle.

Still, even if the world seemed doomed to starvation, he had had to get out of Porterhouse for the evening.

Besides he was not a Porterhouse man, as the Dean had pointed out when he had been accepted.

Fuller, the Head Porter at Porterhouse had said to him when he first came to the College and what was true then was true now.

The challenge he had thrown down to Porterhouse had been deliberate and justified.