But no trace could we find of the two Italian labourers, nor of the house-keeper and her husband. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The only time our backups were interrupted was when a house-keeper had plugged in a rug cleaner in the hallway outside the server room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He gets to know all the spirits with the help of his house-keeper, who runs seances. ❋ Karen Burnham (2009)
As I had already destined my old landlady to be my house-keeper and governante, knowing her honesty, good-nature, and, although a Scotchwoman, her cleanliness and excellent temper (saving the short and hasty expressions of anger which Highlanders call a FUFF), I now proposed the plan to her in such a way as was likely to make it most acceptable. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Well, I have to qualify that, since the household was English only but I was the youngest and had house-keeper/guardians looking after me when my mother worked and who spoke French dominantly while looking after me. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In his last years, Pius XII was a recluse; access to him was strictly controlled by his imperious house-keeper, Mother Pascalina Lehnert. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Camilla tried to escape; but Sir Hugh would not permit her, and the house-keeper and butler led the way, followed by every other domestic of the house. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The joy of Sir Hugh was now as frantic as his grief had been the moment before: he hastened to his drawing-room, commanded that the whole house should be illuminated; promised a year's wages to all his servants; bid his house-keeper distribute beef and broth throughout the village; and sent directions that the bells of the three nearest parish churches should be rung for a day and a night. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She took the freshest vine-leaves and arranged her dish of grapes as coquettishly as a practised house-keeper might have done, and placed it triumphantly on the table. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This circumstance occasioned John Podgers much grief and sorrow, until happening one day to cast his eyes upon his house-keeper, and observing her to be plainly afflicted with rheumatism, he procured her to be burnt as an undoubted witch. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For a house-keeper (Tere in my case) one can always say el ama de casa which is a professional title and not objectional in any language; but ayudante is still easier to say and more people will understand, even if they don't speak Spanish. ❋ Unknown (2005)
BANFIELD: First of all, there could be a house-keeper who comes out and gives depositions on his behalf, about what Denise ` s behavior is like in the house. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So, around 4:30AM, I go down to the basement to get some clean underwear out of the dryer - yeah, my house-keeper hadn't folded them - LOL - so, whadya think, I'm a priest already? ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)
She was also interested by Dorothee the house-keeper, who attended them, whose appearance was almost as antique as the objects around her, and who seemed no less interested by Emily, on whom she frequently gazed with so much deep attention, as scarcely to hear what was said to her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
With much difficulty he prevailed upon the old house-keeper to deliver a request that he might be permitted to wait upon her for a few moments. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These are cooked in a few minutes in the morning, and form such a pleasant change to the standing dish of eggs and bacon; and how proud a good house-keeper will feel when her little dishes are enjoyed, and she knows that they have cost nothing! — for the food would not have kept, and must therefore have been thrown away if she had not possessed an ice chest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
[Oh] she's a house keeper ❋ Hazendred (2019)
