As she did so her hostess again nudged her heavily.
You must throw yourself into your duties as hostess at the Residency; and, in the first place, I want you to help me in a little scheme I have in mind.
Oh, but he has turned over a new leaf," her hostess replied.
A good idea," said Lady Smith-Evered, thankfully following her hostess below.
The wife is shown by her hostess to the sofa and is seated there as a mark of distinction.
They had read quietly for several hours, and their hostess was just finishing her last letter when fragments of the conversation reached her ear.
Whereupon the other's face lightened and she joined in the laugh at her own expense, settling into the easy chair that her hostess had prepared for her, with a gesture of helplessness and comfort.
She assented readily to the request of her hostess that she should play.
The hostess remonstrated at the breaking up the party.
Mrs. Fullerton has the qualities of a heroine, kind hostess as she is!
People might have been forgiven for not understanding her, as perhaps her hostess felt, noticing Hadria's animation, and the extraordinary power that she was wielding over everyone in the room, young and old.
My good hostess was, however, terrified when I made the proposal.
In the drawing room where the hostess stood to receive, superb pink poppies reared their heads from tall vases, pink snapdragons bobbed on the mantel piece and a bank of pink candytuft lay on the top of the piano.
Miss Porter, who acted the part of hostess while Ella was dressing, was quickly interrogated by Lizzie Upton, as to who the young lady was they met in the yard.
He bowed courteously to the compliment the hostess paid him; and she, immediately taking advantage of his acknowledgment, said that after having paid him such a pretty compliment he couldn't refuse her to sing a song.
While they were talking, the merry hostess entered; and the last words the captain uttered fell upon her ear, and then followed a reply from Growling, saying that Irishmen were as hard to catch as quicksilver.
Smeaton was also thoughtful; but he did not lose his ease and calmness; and, by a few good-humoured words, soon induced their hostess to hurry herself somewhat more than she had been doing previously.
The hostess arose; a rustle and flurry of silk and lace and the scraping of chairs, a lingering word or laugh, and the colour vanished from the room leaving a circle of men in black standing around the table.
But everybody knew he was at last to be crossed off and struck clean out, and the ugly history of the winter, now so impudently corroborated at Saratoga, gave many a hostess the opportunity long desired.
The hostess was the center of a circle of ladies and gentlemen.
Many of the guests paid their hostess the compliment of arriving at the early hour mentioned in the invitations.
She made her way back to the room in which the hostess received her guests.
In this blissful frame of mind, our fair hostess scarcely knew when the trumpet of general R---- sounded.
If a hostess goes to the trouble and expense of providing a pleasant evening for her friends, her guests should wear festival attire.
If a hostess fears that I shall mortify her she needn't invite me.
I can't speak for Jane," interposed Julia, "but I am sure that in accepting invitations we ought to think of what the hostess would like.
Courtland obediently flung aside his coat and followed his active hostess through the French window to the platform outside.
He had seen the farm and its improvements; he had found some of his own ideas practically discounted; clearly there was nothing left for him to do but to thank his hostess and take his leave.
The hostess now crossed the room to Phyllis, who had been watching what had passed between her and Hetty from a distance.
While she considered about what it would be pretty to say, her hostess went on: "I suppose she is a little conceited and spoiled.
I am often very lonely," said Hetty simply; and again her host and hostess looked at each other.
I think she does not like me," said Hetty, looking steadily at her hostesswith large serious eyes.
Hetty's distress increased, but she felt quite unable to explain to her hostess the reasons why it was impossible she could comply with her wishes.
Twenty cents for twenty steps is a little high," says the hostess of your hotel, but it is the tariff from outside.
But Clementina did not come, neither did his hostess return.
A silence fell upon the gallery so deep that the receding voices and footsteps of Grant and his hostess in the long passage were distinctly heard until they reached the end.
The two ladies exchanged bows, the one sulkily, the other stiffly; and even Mr Smith, though not a particularly observant man, thought their hostess did not look so pleasant as in the forenoon.
They sat in the parlour for half an hour or more, and during this time it was not necessary for their hostess to say a single word.
Hitherto, he had found his hostessof invaluable assistance in his parish work.
The same," nodded Miss Hitty, overjoyed to discover that at last her hostess was interested.
Seeing that her hostess did not intend to talk, Miss Hitty began a conversation, if anything wholly one-sided may be so termed.
And even before Ysenda became the hostess on these occasions, she felt that she might reveal to him the secret of the condition which in his generosity he had unconsciously fulfilled.
I fidgeted and worried so that night that I must have looked quite pale when my attentive hostess met me at the head of the stairs the next morning.
I have a fancy for big rooms and more than once urged my hostessto tell me why this one stood neglected.
If Mrs. Dround was a careless hostess sometimes, that was not the day.
And I was led away from our hostess to keep me out of mischief.
At dances in Italy a hostess is always careful to have a sprinkling of the military on account both of the brilliant uniforms and of the fact that they are all dancing men.
Chatting gaily, they lingered in the wood, strolled through the long range of hothouses, and then back again to the lawn, where they found the guests bidding farewell to their hostess and departing.
The careful student of events, had such an one been present, might have found food for thought in the mutual influence which the hostess and her guest exercised on each other.
Only that it is perhaps not customary for the guest to praise the beauty of his hostess as thou hast of late fallen into the fashion of doing.
But how face the publicity of restoring it now, after this elaborate and painful search, in which even the son of her hostess had taken part?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hostess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
