household

• When he fell ill in 1693, the household was aghast at his indisposition: mild Dorothea, his wife, the best companion of the best of men Mild Dorothea, peaceful, wise, and great Trembling beheld the doubtful hand of fate As for Dorinda, his sister Those who would grief describe, might come and trace Its watery footsteps in Dorinda's face To see her weep, joy every face forsook And grief flung sables on each menial look The humble tribe mourned for the quickening soul That furnished spirit and motion through the whole Isn't that line in which grief is described as putting the menials into a mourning livery, a fine image? —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• You submit, of course, and so your household is arranged by the boy without you really having had a word to say. —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
• When every member of the household is able, and with cheerful willingness does his full part for the family support and comfort, the burden is equally distributed. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
• Baking the bread of the household was accounted women's work; as men ploughed and sowed in the field, women kneaded and baked at the oven. —  The Parables of Our Lord
• 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

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