house-work

It had got quite ridiculous when the original series ended, to have Rose, who would have been at least in her early '50s without accounting for a world war and years of haggering heavy house-work to be looking barely a few years older than the young head house-parlour maid she was when the series began.

Upstairs, Downstairs and servant porn | Kathryn Hughes 2010

It had got quite ridiculous when the original series ended, to have Rose, who would have been at least in her early '50s without accounting for a world war and years of haggering heavy house-work to be looking barely a few years older than the young head house-parlour maid she was when the series began.

Upstairs, Downstairs and servant porn | Kathryn Hughes 2010

He followed up the house-work as before, and as he walked up and down the rooms, occasionally gazing from the windows over the bulging green hills and the quiet harbour that lay between them, he murmured words and fragments of words, which, if listened to, would have revealed all the secrets of his existence.

Wessex Tales 2006

And when it came to house-work… well, put it this way, from the age of thirteen onwards, I decided it was easier to do it myself.

State of the Union Douglas Kennedy 2005

And that's what I really do, when I don't teach or administrate or do house-work or visit my aging mother or try to occasionally have a vacation with my family - which are the main things going on in my life.

Archive 2005-10-01 Torill 2005

And that's what I really do, when I don't teach or administrate or do house-work or visit my aging mother or try to occasionally have a vacation with my family - which are the main things going on in my life.

"What do you really do in New York?" Torill 2005

The house-work, which, if we had dared trust a stranger near us, would have been done by a servant, was taken on the first day, taken as her own right, by Marian Halcombe.

The Woman in White 2003

Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her house-work, or read to her when there was nothing to do.

Household Tales 2003

‘How do you feel this morning?’ asked the woman, coming in on tip-toe when her house-work was finished.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

He had dogs, cats, and birds to keep him company; but no human being near him, except the person who came daily to do the house-work, and the doctor at the bedside.

The Moonstone 2003