1584 examples of housekeeping in sentences
What else should I do?" "And learn housekeeping from Linnet.
You say this house is to be sold; and the furniture, for future housekeeping, is to be packed and stored; that you and Prue are to sail for Havre the first steamer in July; and who beside your husband is to attend to this, and to get you on board the steamer in time?"
Therefore Marjorie took the place that she left vacant in the farmhouse, and more than filled it, but she did not love housekeeping for its own comfortable sake, as Linnet did; she did it as "by God's law.
Thus the brooding silence was unbroken save for the occasional murmur of a voice, the jingle of the housekeeping keys, and the quick, light tap, tap, of Miss Priscilla's stick.
And the allowance of one pint and a half, or perhaps a quart of claret, one "gross wax-light," and forty candle-ends, to enable the Chancellor to carry on his housekeeping, may be considered as a curious exemplification of primitive temperance and economy.
Frances was disturbed in her mind, her orderly, sensible, housekeeping mind; she was uneasy, even perhaps afraid; something in the house distressed her, and she had need of me.
Sonny he's got purty consider'ble o' both for his age, but, of co'se, he wouldn't never aspire to put nothin' he could think up into no printed book, I don't reckon; though he's got three blank books filled with the routine of "out-door housekeeping," ez he calls it, the way it's kep' by varmints an' things out o' doors under loose tree-barks an' in all sorts of outlandish places.
On arriving in Aldeburgh Crabbe once more set up housekeeping with a sister, as he had done in his less prosperous days as parish doctor.
" "Of course I have been working," said Miriam, "but while Dora Bannister was here, what we did was not like straightforward work; it all seemed to mean something that was not just plain housekeeping.
But to have him even in the lightest way intimate that her housekeeping was preferable to that of his own sister nettled her self-esteem.
Of course the Dranes are very estimable people, and there are many things, especially in the way of housekeeping, which Mrs. Drane could teach Miriam, if she chose to take the trouble.
Her housekeeping, but for her pets, would have been the proper housewifery for a fairy.
Lanley saw that the Wayne housekeeping was immensely complicated by crime.
Once women taught their daughters housekeeping and sewing from stern principle, and made it neither beautiful nor attractive.
(In Good housekeeping, July 1926) © 25Jun26, B706993.
(In Good housekeeping, May 1926) © 25Apr26, B699234.
(In Good housekeeping, Apr. 1926) © 25Mar26, B696357.
(In Good housekeeping, Apr. 1927) © 25Mar27; B737070.
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(In Good housekeeping, July 1927)
(In Good housekeeping, Aug. 1927) © 25Jul27; B748058.
(In Good housekeeping, July 1927) © 25Jun27; B746387.
(In Good housekeeping, Dec. 1928)
(In Good housekeeping, Jan. 1929) © 24Dec28; B10933.
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