How To Use Housekeeper In A Sentence

But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. HomeToys News
They were crammed with what we term indirect workers—workers on their way to relieve a fellow employee, machine repairers en route to troubleshoot a problem, housekeepers, inventory runners. The Machine That Changed the World
The radar ovens and cybernated housekeepers did all the work; the only thing left for the men in charge was to make sure they were working properly. Starchild Omnibus
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride

Ida Willis is a no-nonsense, interfering housekeeper whose temperament is ill-suited to her clients.
That includes paying for the housekeeper and gardener. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Hemmings, the housekeeper, went upstairs, imagining Horatio to be there. ALL ABOUT LOVE
You'd better ring for the housekeeper to bring more soap.
I think not," she said; "Saunders says that his mother is the most 'siccar' housekeeper that he kens of, and that after a while ye get to mind her tongue nae mair nor the mill fanners. The Lilac Sunbonnet
Wearing a robe, he stumbles out of bed and opens the drapes and shades, gazing down lovingly upon the housekeeper putting Serge's midday snack into his backpack.
He has a housekeeper and a French chef. Times, Sunday Times
And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.
Prices include cook and housekeeper to ensure that nobody has to lift a finger. Times, Sunday Times
He sings as if issuing instructions to a slow-witted housekeeper.
Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES 'squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand.
The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from The Man Between, an International Romance
In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
This includes approximately 75,000 workers who serve the rich and very rich in such jobs as limousine drivers, nannies, housekeepers, waiters and bellhops.
Painkillers didn't seem to help, so her resourceful housekeeper, who comes from Hong Kong, enlisted a neighborhood acupuncturist to visit her apartment and stick needles in her. Needled to Health
Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up. Gatlinburg
He has a housekeeper and a French chef. Times, Sunday Times
The housekeeper vows that he never left his glass box at the foot of the stairs from the time Samuel went upstairs first to the time when he came down again, vastly agitated, at a quarter-past one, and sent a message; and during all that time _Denson never passed the box_! The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Even without abuse per se, long hours of isolated, physically exhausting domestic labor for live-in nannies, cooks and housekeepers can extend beyond what most employees would tolerate.
At one hospital, Kimmons installed a spy as a housekeeper.
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage. Cheerful—By Request
He saw an opening last Christmas, when her housekeeper was looking about for a needle and thread to fix a hole in Wilson's sweater.
Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle learn that Darcy is, according to his housekeeper, a kind, generous, good-tempered man.
She was a model housekeeper and dairywoman in the days when they worked the farm, and is now an oracle on many questions. Choice Readings for the Home Circle
During the fall and winter, cooks, housekeepers, and other attendants saw to the owners' needs.
He also faced questions about the employment and immigration status of a former housekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms -- housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters. Delta Search
We tried to keep on the right side of the housekeeper, so that she would let us bring beer in.
Women are now considered as equal partners, not as chattels or housekeepers.
The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from Dora's parlor, so she took the hint, and accepted the lesson. The Man Between: An International Romance
In the past five years demand for housekeepers and butlers has risen ten-fold in the UK.
“It was Ahenobarbus Pontifex Maximus who refurbished the Atrium Vestae sixty years ago,” the housekeeper explained, “and then Caesar Pontifex Maximus installed hypocaust heating in all the living areas as well as the record rooms.” Antony and Cleopatra
Martha was a housekeeper – she reveled in housecleaning – she had In Times Like These
The basement would be perfect for a live-in housekeeper or nanny. Times, Sunday Times
Our housekeeper is a real treasure.
From her seat at the kitchen table, Miri took a small sip of her tea and swung one leg toward the housekeeper.
This includes approximately 75,000 workers who serve the rich and very rich in such jobs as limousine drivers, nannies, housekeepers, waiters and bellhops.
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
You need a housekeeper to nurse your property.
They are looking receptionists, bar staff, night porters, duty managers and housekeepers, among other staff.
When single women began to settle in the United States, they went into domestic work as maids, cooks, and housekeepers.
He has a regular housekeeper, whose family thus benefits from the trickle-down effect.
Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
Why should a housekeeper never put the letter M in her refrigerator?
Feel free to tip the bellhop and the housekeeper 5% to 20% for good service, depending on the situation and how frequently they serve you.
The tall, thin man was the innkeeper -- evidently a timorous fellow; the hunchback was his 'man' -- malevolent probably, the doer of the other's dark behests; whilst the woman was presumably his wife, the cook and housekeeper of the ale-house. Border Ghost Stories
My grandmother was a notoriously fussy housekeeper.
People with occupational exposure to latex include medical professionals, housekeepers, tire manufacturers, and latex industry workers.
“Should I call a constable?” the housekeeper asked. Earl of Durkness
The housekeeper was clad in her usual black, a white mobcap upon her stern white curls. The Laird Who Loved Me
The twins can also be ruthless, as when they cunningly murder the housekeeper.
The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
Alcinous," said he, "it is not creditable to you that a stranger should be seen sitting among the ashes of your hearth; every one is waiting to hear what you are about to say; tell him, then, to rise and take a seat on a stool inlaid with silver, and bid your servants mix some wine and water that we may make a drink offering to Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection; and let the housekeeper give him some supper, of whatever there may be in the house. The Odyssey
There were domestic service agencies all over England who supplied scullery maids, kitchen maids, parlour maids, chambermaids, cooks general, cooks, butlers, housekeepers, nannies and companions.
My house is making me crazy, too, because I have never been much of a housekeeper, but it's slipping out of my control. the laundry from last week is not folded yet, so while there are clean undies, they aren't in drawers where my daughter can find them. Archive 2009-06-01
Not surprisingly, I greeted the arrival of our housekeeper like a divine visitation.
The housekeeper of a certain millionnaire, calling upon her to ask the character of a servant, took occasion to enlarge upon the splendors of her employer's establishment. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
You'd have your cook, your gardener and your housekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
With subtle flattery she had gradually been accepted by the housekeeper.
A housekeeper and cook keep you spoilt. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever the cause, the anger, and bitterness and frustration drips from the walls; the front desk snaps at the guests, the housekeepers snap at the front desk in the hallway outside my room, I heard a maid apologizing to a guest for his unmade room -- "it's the front desk's fault, they always send people up before we're ready" and the bartenders and bellhops snap at everyone. Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel
The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
‘Consider the motel housekeeper, the retail clerk at the hardware store or the coffee shop cook,’ the report said.
Not having a housekeeper meant most of the domestic chores became mine.
And now she has admitted having a catfight with her housekeeper in which both women ended up rolling around on the floor, grappling and screaming.
I mean it ought to be the charming old eccentric uncle with the zany housekeeper and the funny little critter on the beach and it just seems to miss out on that level and I actually felt that all the children were really unlikeable.
Women have the quadruple roles of mother, housekeeper, wife, and worker, roughly in that order of importance.
But he watched the small figure, that did after all "hobble" a little all the way down the room as the summoned housekeeper led the way. Suzanna Stirs the Fire
In her housekeeper's room, surrounded by many dusty bill files and stacks of account books, they presently found Mrs. Trapes, whose hawk's-eye viewed bills and tradesmen's books while she frowned and muttered such comments as "Rogues! The Definite Object A Romance of New York
They noticed the screaming housekeeper, stopped, and debussed.
Housekeepers are routinely accused by guests of stealing money from nightstands, making international calls from the room phones, rifling through luggage and pocketing jewelry.
Their trade was unusually brisk and the demand for Mary-'Gusta's services as salesgirl interfered considerably with her duties as assistant housekeeper. Mary-'Gusta
You'd better ring for the housekeeper to bring more soap.
His housekeeper came out to greet him.
Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning.
In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
Not succeeding in arousing enthusiasm for our school of household science, we next turned our attention to what could be done in the way of establishing a housekeepers 'emergency bureau, which is, as its name indicates, to supply temporary help, the employe returning to her home each day. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
The housekeeper moved smartly to the Vicar's desk to answer the call.
Precisely what the housekeeper would have ready for them was the matter preoccupying Carolyn's mind at the moment.
Dad sent him to Thackton, with just Ida and the housekeeper Elsie for company, to convalesce. THE GOLDEN LION
Birdie turned around and saw Hattie, the slightly plump, middle-aged housekeeper.
A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand.
So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Eun-yi works with (perhaps for, but it's unclear) the Hoon family housekeeper, Byung-sik (Yun Yeo-jong). Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Housemaid
If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage. Cheerful—By Request
Women were forced to be notable housekeepers; men were compelled to attend to every detail of masculine labor in their households and on their farms, thus acquiring and developing a "handiness" at all trades, which has become a Yankee trait. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
They say too that the housekeeper knows all about it, and is hand and glove with the old witch. The Princess and the Curdie
There are also Antony, the pleasant young English painter who owns the castle, and Costanza, the jolly Italian housekeeper, old but wonderfully spry and saucy.
Swann spends nine months convalescing morosely, only snapping out of it when his housekeeper, played with tight-lipped understatement by Sarah Lancashire, buys him a camera.
There is also a peculiarly fascinating apparatus known as a vacuum-pan, peeping into which, through a little tale window, a species of brown porridge transforms itself into crystallised sugar of the sort known to housekeepers as "Demerara" under your very eyes; and another equally attractive, rapidly revolving machine in which the molasses, by centrifugal force, detaches itself from the sugar, and runs of its own accord down its appointed channels to the rum distillery, where Here, There and Everywhere
At one point she impersonates a domestic day-worker in order to glean insider information about the Schwartz family, pumping their housekeeper for juicy details as they gossip together like yentas.
The following morning, the new housekeeper enters his room and finds him dead.
She also hosted parties at which the housekeeper was expected to pitch in. Times, Sunday Times
Contents chapter 1: the customs officer’s wife chapter 2: “pardon me, old man ... ‘chapter 3: airaud’s footprints chapter 4: official proceedings chapter 5: the confession chapter 6: the two englishwomen of versailles chapter 7: ask the chief superintendent chapter 8: a meal of baked potatoes chapter 9: the interrogation chapter 10: detective didine chapter 11: the doctor’s housekeeper Maigret In Exile
A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital.
The second, the marvelously round apple-cheeked woman, was the cook, the housekeeper, the domestic Hestia, goddess of the Hearth.
He had taken Spanish in high school and also learned a lot from the Hispanic housekeepers his family had employed throughout the years.
A majority owner of the luxury hotel, the former all-star point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, and now a team co-owner, stood before several dozen housekeepers, bellmen and security guards and encouraged them to perform their best to win their customers 'repeat business. A 'Magic' touch in the business world
The striking workers include part-time housekeepers, cooks, ticket takers, ushers, bartenders, concession workers, servers, and conversion and ice crews.
In her housekeeper's room, surrounded by many dusty bill files and stacks of account books, they presently found Mrs. Trapes, whose hawk's-eye viewed bills and tradesmen's books while she frowned and muttered such comments as "Rogues! The Definite Object A Romance of New York
This will be true at your workplace, but also if you should need to hire household help too, such as a housekeeper, nanny, gardener, or other part-timer.
Although she has the support of doctors, nurses and housekeepers, the former First Lady oversees her husband's care, despite the effect it has on her own health.
Karim also happens to be the son of the family’s Algerian housekeeper, Mimouna, played by a nonactor with a similar background. Tribeca Film: Rainy Day Woman: Agnes Jaoui
She is a sunbeam in my house -- sweet, loving, beauti - ful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be. Sole Music
Kathy, on the other hand, is in a haze of anxiety and melancholy so deep that she, a housekeeper, can't even bring herself to take care of the place while she lives in it.
In a scheme being piloted for the first time outside London, affluent city workers can employ Filipino housekeepers, who combine nannying skills with domestic service.
[Page 77] collecting and arranging for the display of an exhibit which shall show to the best advantage, the material resources and varied fields of labor of the women of all nations, to the auxiliary is confided the important task of calling together a series of congresses during 1893, which shall not only demonstrate what woman has done in the lines of mental and spiritual work, and in the sunny field of letters, but the public discussion of practical subjects by trained thinkers will uplift the masses and open the way to a better understanding of many facts needful to the housekeeper, the educator and the philanthropist. Three Girls in a Flat
They also employ a housekeeper and gardener. Times, Sunday Times
They say too that the housekeeper knows all about it, and is hand and glove with the old witch. The Princess and the Curdie
The 44-year-old housekeeper alleged Campbell punched and scratched her face so badly she went to hospital.
Her former secretary recalls Daphne dispatching her housekeeper on more than one occasion with a Thermos of soup to comfort some ailing don.
They will include chefs, housekeepers and waiters as well as business owners.
The next day, the housekeeper arrived to find the place in a shambles.
And now she has admitted having a catfight with her housekeeper in which both women ended up rolling around on the floor, grappling and screaming.
Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage.
You guys are like a bunch of frat boys that blames the housekeeper that is trying to clean up after your 8 year "kegger". Drudge Retort
It may interest you to know that Miss Woods, the housekeeper, witnessed the attack.
I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
the incurably servile housekeeper
The modern wife is considered more of an equal partner and helpmate than a chattel or a housekeeper.
Conversation around the table in the Servants' Hall in Blandings was seldom subversive, since Beach and Mrs Twemlow, the housekeeper, were there to see that the decencies were observed.
Then rent a fully staffed luxury villa in Mallorca that comes with a butler, chef, housekeeper, maid and gardener.
They may be employed in retail stores, cafes or holiday resorts, serving the needs of tourists, or as housekeepers in the homes of expatriates, but they return each day to a dismal shanty area.
The 150 cleaners, housekeepers, office and restaurant staff have been fighting for a better deal for weeks.
Also, when more people have more money they hire more things done that they would otherwise do themselves... so that "pocketed" extra capital goes to construction workers for the new deck and outdoor entertainment "room", to auto-workers for the new car, for the truckers to transport it, for the housekeeper, for the nanny, for all the extra meals out at restaurants... You judge the new Tina Fey skit spoofing Sarah Palin.
I set the basket against the door, hoping that the housekeeper would find it.
On which Mr. Beach, extending a crooked elbow toward the housekeeper, would say, "Mr.. Twemlow!" and lead the way, high and disposedly, down the passage, followed in order of rank by the rest of the company, in couples, to the steward's room. Something New
Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
Then Ayling's housekeeper came to ask how many people there would be for lunch and Rain declined an invitation to stay.
A most fitting tribute for such a slatternly housekeeper.
A former housekeeper came to tea and asked our smallest grandson how old he was. Times, Sunday Times
The new housekeeper came on the highest recommendation.
She also hosted parties at which the housekeeper was expected to pitch in. Times, Sunday Times
This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant access to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. MacTech News
a careless housekeeper
The housekeeper's name is Rose; she will be at her desk in the hallway.
There, the pictures are in a large, empty house ... about 200 yards in length and the permanent inhabitants are a Housekeeper and two maids, and a carpenter who is in and out as required during the day.
Meanwhile my housekeeper had been excelling herself in the kitchen. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
He rang the bell, waiting only seconds before the housekeeper answered the door.
This is the naffing housekeeper he's been talking to. In the Presence of the Enemy
With the need for a new housekeeper, Stevens sees an opportunity to bring Miss Kenton, now separated from her husband, back to the manor.
Over 60 percent of the casino employees, including food and beverage workers, croupiers, housekeepers, store personnel and security staff, were involved.
Said by: Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
The owner fled the scene before police arrived, leaving the housekeeper and the girls inside their rooms.
In a scheme being piloted for the first time outside London, affluent city workers can employ Filipino housekeepers, who combine nannying skills with domestic service.
A good housekeeper "tidies" her rooms as she goes along, always picking up anything that is out of place and putting it where it belongs. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
A spotless stove told us that his mother is a diligent housekeeper.
So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
In other cases, women answered advertisements by foreign tour operators or employment agencies looking for au pairs, models, housekeepers and waitresses.
The housekeeper who went to let Ledger know the masseuse was there found him dead at 3: 26 p.m. HEATH LEDGER IS DEAD – UPDATE
Mrs. Harte, the good old housekeeper, had been sent down to prepare for the reception of the family, and a world of trouble she had had; but all was now right and proper, and she was as active and alert as the youngest of her maidens could have been, in conducting the ladies to their apartments, in showing all the old places, and doing what she called the honours of the _re-installation_. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
How the CIA used maids and housekeepers to spy directly on leading politicians of many his person became very angry with the US government and wrote several books. he also said the underground map room at West Point was under neath the parking (underground) to the left. Radovan Karadzic's website and blog
Currently it's a guest suite but could provide a nest for a nanny or housekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
Currently it's a guest suite but could provide a nest for a nanny or housekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
Also patron of domestic help, housekeepers, and maids.
a face full of trouble; and, to use the housekeeper's words, "has fallen into a sad hystericky way lately. Bracebridge Hall
The sprawling house was maintained by a housekeeper and a gardener. Times, Sunday Times
Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
He gave the alarm and Miss Minnie Moore, housekeeper of the hotel, ran from room to room - sometimes in dense smoke - to rouse other occupants.
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
She manages with a part-time housekeeper, Helen, who moves in full time if she is away.
Women worked as hotel chambermaids, housekeepers, babysitters, factory and fast-food workers, and nursing home aids.
Critics from both the right and the left accuse middle-class women of neglecting their children and exploiting the immigrant women they employ as nannies and housekeepers.
The cloth that covered the table was of that peculiar kind of damask linen invented in the time of Henry IV. by the brothers Graindorge, the skilful weavers, who gave their name to the heavy fabric so well known to housekeepers. The Country Doctor
My friend, both your wife and your housekeeper know that you no longer dally with her, and her loitering in your home is merely charity on your part.
Dad sent him to Thackton, with just Ida and the housekeeper Elsie for company, to convalesce. THE GOLDEN LION
He is a bachelor so he might want to employ a housekeeper and a gardener, but that's up to him.
Bitter sibling rivalry, the death of Strindberg's mother in 1851, and Mr. Strindberg's immediate remarriage to the housekeeper did little to improve the situation.
Mrs. Crook, "she turned to call to the departing housekeeper," when you've done wi 'the bannocks, fix this starveling man a bowl of parritch to fill in the chinks with. Sick Cycle Carousel
The basement would be perfect for a live-in housekeeper or nanny. Times, Sunday Times
At a job fair on Sunday, one firm was employing men housekeepers only and offering high remuneration.
During the campaign it was revealed that Whitman herself had not voted for 28 years, a record she described as "atrocious" and had ruthlessly dumped her longtime housekeeper when it emerged she was an illegal alien - and consequently a political liability. Will Meg Whitman stay the course as HP CEO?
The only women in the household were an old black cook, and the housekeeper, known as "Viney" -- a Negro corruption of Lavinia -- a tall, comely young light mulattress, with a dash of Cherokee blood, which gave her straighter, blacker and more glossy hair than most women of mixed race have, and perhaps a somewhat different temperamental endowment. The Colonel's Dream
She found Mrs Moffatt to be my cook housekeeper, and I've got a parlourmaid who comes in from the village when I need her. THE WHITE DOVE
It may interest you to know that Miss Woods, the housekeeper, witnessed the attack.
He made his housekeeper become a drug dealer to feed his habit.
Amy ordered the housekeeper to arrange them, thinking that the magnificence might lift her father's spirits. THE WHITE DOVE
So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
In the towns, people work as street vendors, in the construction industry, as maids and housekeepers, or as plumbers, electricians, or carpenters.
And late that night, after all the children were nestled snug in their beds, dreaming of sugarplums and what not, Betty would quietly enter the housekeeper's bedroom and choke her out with a garrotte, and subsequently disposing of her body in Lake Memphremagog. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage.
When the housekeeper courtesied, Mr. Pickwick bowed with the utmost politeness, and when he bowed, the housekeeper courtesied again; between the housekeeper and the barber, I should say that Mr. Pickwick faced about and bowed with undiminished affability fifty times at least. Master Humphrey's Clock
Critics from both the right and the left accuse middle-class women of neglecting their children and exploiting the immigrant women they employ as nannies and housekeepers.
The housekeeper used to decide what vacuum cleaner to order, but the maids had to use them.
The housekeeper had put a fragrant pot of balsam in the window and kindled a pine-knot fire in the brazier.
Didn't agree with his daughter, the air there, or something, and he says he couldn't be at the bother of two establishments without a housekeeper in nary one of 'em. The Hills of the Shatemuc

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