72 Verbs to Use for the Word housekeeper

" "Come; we'll ask the housekeeper," said Beth.

"I hope not without having been reconciled to his daughter, and providing for her large family?" "He died in her arms, and escaped the consequences of his silly intention to marry his own housekeeper.

He told the housekeeper to tell Jerry he was called away and would be back next day.

A prospector, crippled with rheumatism, wanted a housekeeper.

"We're all very fond of Master Kenneth," replied the housekeeper, simply.

"I always lunch in my own room, and you may do the same," and with a wave of her thin hand she dismissed the girl, who thoughtfully followed the old housekeeper through the halls.

And, besides, Cousin Lucy Fentnor (as befitted any one born an Allardyce) was to all accounts a notable housekeeper, famed alike for the perilous glassiness of her hardwood floors, her dexterous management of servants, her Honiton-braid fancy-work (familiar to every patron of Lichfield charity bazaars), and her unparalleled calves-foot jelly.

He was at breakfast, but on my stating to him that I was come to see the apartments of Voltaire he directed the housekeeper to shew them to me.

He was delighted, and took his housekeeper right away from jam-making to see it at once, directly he made the discovery.

'Mrs. Dubbs,' she said, 'do you consider me a respectable young woman?' 'Oh, Miss More!' cried the housekeeper.

We'll have a few wordsbefore my housekeeper if possible, to insure publicityand then you had better not come again.

On his leaving the county, he ordered his housekeeper to furnish every thing needful for them as often as they wanted it, and to take care they were well used by the women with whom he had placed them; and delivered these commands not in a cursory or negligent manner, but in such terms as terrified any failure of obedience in this point would highly incur his displeasure.

She had a little basket-trifle hanging at her side with keys in it; and she looked as staid and discreet a housekeeper as the old house could have.

She appeared the next minute, dragging a very much astonished housekeeper after her, and proudly presented her prize to her mother.

His office was in his four-room house, and he did not employ a housekeeper.

Lingering for a moment on these back stairs of History, let me tell the tragic tale of Mr. and Mrs. M. Mr. M was one of the merchant princes of London, and Mrs. M had occasion to engage a new housekeeper for their palace in Park Lane.

He glanced through them casually, but with an absentmindedness which did not escape his housekeeper when she came in.

"There are no servants excepting my housekeeper, and she is absolutely trustworthy.

" "Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.

"She's the one I told you about the other day," Miss Munch had explained later"the housekeeper for your friend Stillman's father-in-law."

Only he sat eying the housekeeper as she spoke, apparently indifferent to the result.

So they returned to the house and, with little difficulty, found the old housekeeper.

" "I wonder what Aunt Priscilla will have to say about it!" "Aunt Priscilla?" "She is our housekeeper,the dearest, busiest, gentlest little housekeeper in all the world; but withvery sharp eyes, Mr. Bellew.

So John Boynton got a housekeeper; and Lizzy had more than one Thanksgiving-day in her life, beside the Governor's appointments.

So I gave up resident housekeepers.

72 Verbs to Use for the Word  housekeeper