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Example sentences for "house keeper"

  • I am not so sure of that," replied the boarding-house keeper.

  • He's cut his wrist," said the maiden lady to the lodging-house keeper, and seemed in doubt what a lady should do.

  • Some states provide by statute for a boarding-house keeper's lien upon the goods of a boarder.

  • At common law, a boarding-house keeper has no lien on the goods of the boarder.

  • A boarding-house keeper is not an innkeeper.

  • Lieutenant Spencer answered by pushing the light-house keeper, who was in abject fear, aside, and rushing to the telephone.

  • Mulford felt perfectly satisfied, the moment he saw this boat, which had come into the haven in tow of the schooner, that it had been originally in the service of the light-house keeper.

  • Perhaps the light-house keeper is afraid to show himself, in the presence of the Swash?

  • Now he had his port in sight, it being his intention to take possession of the dwelling of the light-house keeper, and to remain in it, until a favourable opportunity occurred to remove Rose to Key West.

  • There hangs the light-house keeper's glass, which may help your eyes, by stepping into the gallery outside of the lantern.

  • Surely the light-house keeper has a responsible, if an easy, office.

  • The light-house keeper, who was having his barn shingled, told me casually that he had made three thousand good shingles for that purpose out of a mast.

  • Illustration: Dragging a dory up on the beach] According to the light-house keeper, the Cape is wasting here on both sides, though most on the eastern.

  • The woman was Mrs. Preedy, lodging-house keeper, my present mistress.

  • Captain, for he had no great affection for him, thinking that a former soldier should rather have become a thief than an eating-house keeper.

  • And so all the walls of the factory stand on your ground," said he to the eating-house keeper.

  • Diggs, the boat-house keeper, was a widower, with one child, a girl of ten years old.

  • Hamish Channing, pale, but calm and self-controlled, stood perfectly ready to investigate the account brought by the boat-house keeper of the drowning of Charles.

  • Had the boat-house keeper's mother not put her head under the bed-clothes and kept it there, she might possibly have heard sounds of the rescue.

  • Nevertheless, knowing the state this woman was in, the lodging-house keeper put us into the bed, perfunctorily changing the sheets.

  • The bedding was so filthy that on the lodging-house keeper's attention being called to it he took the sheets off and put them in the fireplace.

  • That light-house keeper is almost a prisoner.

  • I am able to be a conscientious light-house keeper.

  • After that he shows his gratitude by sweeping the kitchen, or washing plates and tea-things, which the lodging-house keeper had to do himself.

  • After I had reached the town, and paid the lodging-house keeper for my bed, I entered the lodgers' kitchen, and there saw three men seated before a good fire.

  • These men fight against going to the hospital and sit dying day after day, making no complaint; until the lodging-house keeper is surprised some morning to find them lying in bed, without the strength to rise.

  • The light-house keeper jumped up and ran out on the point, his wife following him in nervous dread.

  • I thought I heard some one running up the sail on our sail-boat," said the light-house keeper.

  • The light-house keeper's wife was again in imagination a long-limbed girl of fifteen, crowding into the temple to witness such a ceremony as was celebrated on no other spot of the New World.

  • According to the light-house keeper, the Cape is wasting here on both sides, though most on the eastern.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "house keeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    class struggle; down upon; holy nation; house and; house divided against itself cannot stand; house full; house match; house near; house officers; house plants; house square; house steps; house unto; household furniture; household goods; household management; household suffrage; houses and; houses were; insane persons; instant death; name like; present their; reserve fund; roll each; scarce necessary