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She wen to the house-keeper's room, which was at the foot of the stairs she had descended.
Camilla 2008
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In the evening when the dwarfs came home, they found a bright fire and a warm supper waiting for them; and every day Minnie worked faithfully until the last day of the fairy house-keeper's holiday.
The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe
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Celestine, Mrs. Pett's maid -- she who was really Maggie O'Toole and whom Jerry loved with a strength which deprived him of even that small amount of intelligence which had been bestowed upon him by Nature -- came into the house-keeper's room at about ten o'clock that night.
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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The house-keeper's room would be a nice dining-room, and the hall a parlour and drawing-room combined.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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Everybody was so kind and gentle that it seemed like Heaven itself, as he sat by the fireside in the house-keeper's room.
Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903
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The father died suddenly, leaving in Mr. Brownlow's home the portrait of Oliver's mother, which was hanging in the house-keeper's room.
Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903
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When he had reached the last flight of stairs on his way to the street a woman hobbled out of the house-keeper's lodge waving a letter and calling:
The King in Yellow 1899
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"You'll not tell on me, sir, but it's only right you should know as Mrs. Smith" (the house-keeper, of whom Dare stood in mortal terror) "has them fine damask table-cloths out for the house-keeper's room; I see 'em myself; and everything going to rag and ruin in the linen closet!"
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892
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Question her straightway on all that belongs to a house-keeper's duty,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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All by the house-keeper's care set up in their suitable places,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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