She graduated from Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, and, eventually, published the enormous tome designed to teach the 'servantless' average American to cook like a gourmet chef. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He designed these popular, moderately priced houses, which Davies rightly calls “uncompromisingly modern,” for discerning, servantless middle-class families whose style of entertainment tended toward the cocktail party and the buffet supper rather than the formal dinner. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Almost without exception, [they] prefer the hard work combined with the freedom of the factory, to the easy toil of domestic service, which deprives them of liberty,” editorialized the American Hebrew, its sympathies more with the servantless mistress than with the working girl. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The majority of the residential edifices are far finer and more substantial than our own modest shelter, though we gather from such chance glimpses as we get of their arrangements that the labour-saving ideal runs through every grade of this servantless world; and what we should consider a complete house in earthly England is hardly known here. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
We were servantless our whole time on the Cimarron, which was probably a good thing, since it forced Jackson and me to acquire skills such as gardening and carpentry which we never would have been allowed to use if we had been stuck in Virginia, being minor gentry. ❋ Larry Mcmurtry (2006)
This episode and the enervating weeks that followed as he lived servantless and ate in a local hostelry filled him with an unhappiness that only work could cure. ❋ Colm Tóibín (2004)
This was of fair size but appeared to be servantless except for the baby-sitter, and the woman used her own front-door key to let herself in. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1977)
Already the "servantless house" is widely advertised. ❋ Anna Garlin Spencer (N/A)
John Ozanne, the honest but not brilliant son of an English clergyman, did not disdain to serve behind his own bar, either, when his barman was sick, and his wife, in servantless days, turned to in the hotel kitchen and cooked the meals, though such work was far from her taste and had not been included in her upbringing as a country doctor's daughter. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)
During my servantless period she stayed with friends -- which was a good thing for her digestion and my nervous system. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He was only too anxious, and we left the great barrack of a house, which seemed servantless and neglected. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1937)
The Dak Bungalow of Chandrapore was below the average, and certainly servantless. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)
There are certain little routine joys known only to the servantless suburbanite. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
That we are servantless and Nell has all the work to do. ❋ Unknown (1920)
She drew humorous pictures of the comic shifts, the almost tragic hardships of life on the Leura – how she had been left servantless – until Ninnis had got up Maggie from the Lower Leura – when the Chinamen decamped during the gold rush. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Then how, during the servantless period, in utter loneliness and Colin's enforced absence at the furthest out-station she had had an attack of dengue fever, and no woman within forty miles of her. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Of course, when I arose to take away the fruit-plates and bring on the breakfast, the fact that I was servantless came out. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Mother could do anything; it was right and natural that she should --- poor soul I But Daddy's profession set him in an enclosure apart, and there were certain things in this servantless menage he could not have done without disgracing the entire family. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
They were childless and servantless, and they had reduced simple living to the finest of fine arts. ❋ Herbert George (1909)
