house-keepers

Amongst the classified ads for "well used" Frank Hall hunting pinks and vacancies for "house-keepers" I once spotted an ad for a pair of John Spencer hunting boots, beautifully hand crafted, obviously - left foot size 9, right foot size 10. 21

Green Credentials Peter Ashley 2008

A world without professors or specialists or house-keepers with the profiles of policemen, a world which one could slice with one's thought as a fish slices the water with his fin, grazing the stems of the water-lilies, hanging suspended over nests of white sea eggs. . .

from A Mark on the Wall Lemon Hound 2009

She had just finished speaking, when she perceived two matrons, who acted as house-keepers in the Feng family, walk upstairs.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

We all complain about bad servants, most as much as if we were house-keepers ourselves; but it never occurs to us to try and mend the matter, by getting up a better spirit between mistress and maid.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

And she was like an ancient woman who is cut off from childbearing and the gifts of garland-loving Aphrodite, like the nurses of king's children who deal justice, or like the house-keepers in their echoing halls.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

She had just finished speaking, when she perceived two matrons, who acted as house-keepers in the Feng family, walk upstairs.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Many old house-keepers, however, serve a rich, hot-mulled port for a winter supper.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

It was a much less trouble for Arion and Orfeus to charm all the senceless creatures both of Sea and Land in those daies; then it is now for house-keepers to bring their servants to a due obedience.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

But in this country very few such house-keepers can be found.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

It is well for all house-keepers to devote one day in the week to the reception of visitors -- the morning to tradespeople and those who may wish to see her on business, and the afternoon to those who call socially.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood