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  • To love a husband and meet his needs, to teach your children and instill good values in them, and yes, even to house-keep, is spiritual. .it is not a matter of just fixing a meal or cleaning up a room.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • To love a husband and meet his needs, to teach your children and instill good values in them, and yes, even to house-keep, is spiritual. .it is not a matter of just fixing a meal or cleaning up a room.

    The Better Part 2008

  • There'll be nothin 'to house-keep on till I can save up some more.'

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • “Are you going to house-keep, then, for the new châtelaine?”

    Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

  • “Perhaps Paul and Fenella would consider allowing me to house-keep for them,” said Millamant, with her first laugh that morning.

    Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

  • She refused to take my protest or her friends 'comment seriously; and so we drifted along in pleasant round of parties till the suns of May, brooding over the land lured us back to the Homestead, in which Zulime could house-keep all day long if she wished to do so, and she did!

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • She soon became an expert seamstress, but finding the employment too confining for health and comfort, she went boldly to work for others, to house-keep, cook, clean, &c.

    Democratic Vistas: Paras. 60–89. Collect 1892

  • And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for these privileges, and never house-keep any more.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872

  • And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for these privileges, and never house-keep any more.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • She soon became an expert seamstress, but finding the employment too confining for health and comfort, she went boldly to work for others, to house-keep, cook, clean, &c.

    Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

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