The royal households of such of the continental monarchies of Europe as have had a continuous history from medieval times resemble in general outlines that described above.
The tribe was composed of households of free Welshmen, all blood relations; and the homesteads of these households were scattered about on the country side, as they were found to be in the time of Giraldus Cambrensis.
And these classes, being without tribal or family rights, were placed in groups of households and homesteads by themselves.
The households of each Baldo would be called Baldings, or in the old form Baldingas; but obviously the Baldings of England need have no clan-relationship whatever to the Baldings of Upper Germany.
In the earliest stage of these systems they were seemingly alike, both in the nomadic habits of the tribes, and the shifting about of the households in a tribe from one homestead to another.
This permanence of the geographical divisions and homesteads, and shifting of the tribal households whenever occasion required it, was only possible with a pastoral and scanty population.
In some households the problem is solved by subsisting solely on certain approved kinds of biscuits, one I heard of keeping exclusively to Shredded Wheat Biscuits and Triscuits, while another stood by the "Artox" Biscuits.
In most German households there is no such thing as the strict division of labour insisted on here.
In well-to-do English households you get the best food in the world as far as raw material goes, but it must be said that you often get poor cooking.
In households where the chief meal of the day is at one or two o'clock there is afternoon tea or coffee.
In households where economy is practised it is still customary to do without butter, or at any rate to provide it only for the master of the house and for visitors.
I've often been to the large households of village gentry on a visit, and even been to banquets there and seen both gold cups and silver cups; but never have I beheld any wooden ones about!
This division into households which messed separately went hand in hand with another practice, which also softened the rigours of a strictly communal life, to wit the allocation of separate rooms to certain nuns.
At Catesby the prioress deposed that she had four nuns in her familia and that there were three other households in the cloister.
This custom grew as the practice of keeping separate households grew.
Even in the households of rich men story-telling round the fire is the favourite after-dinner occupation[1571].
There were four households at Godstow and apparently several at Legbourne.
But such injunctions were not easily enforced, and the politic bishops sometimes tried to reduce rather than to abolish the households and private rooms.
Nearby, stand the handsome "palaces" of the fazendeiros; but not so close that the coffee princes and their households will be disturbed by the almost constant rumble of machinery and the voices of the workers.
Households were allotted about 16 percent of the net electrical supply, and the balance of 7 percent was consumed in trade, public institutions, and street lighting.
Even peasant women must take care of their households and children after putting in the required hours in cooperative labor, whereas formerly they could fit their field work in and around their other responsibilities.
We were in the orchard sitting around the Pulpit Stone, where we had, according to the custom of the households of King, been learning our golden texts and memory verses for the next Sunday School lesson.
Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry of the King households were all agog to enjoy life--for was it not Saturday, and were we not left all alone to keep house?
In some households Sunday is looked forward to with anticipations of pleasure throughout the entire week.
Sunday is about the only day in most of households where the father is home with his family.
The households of wealthy Cardinals were formed upon the scale of princely Courts.
Meanwhile the retrenchment rendered necessary in all households of the hierarchy, and the introduction of severer manners, threatened many minor branches of industry with extinction.
When later on they go out to teach they are themselves taught by the social surroundings of the householdsinto which they enter to still more dislike the old-fashioned ways of agriculture.
In times of pressure households were reduced, servants dismissed, horses sold, carriages suppressed.
In many households there exists a very high degree of mutual consideration and the standard of conduct is by no means degraded.
The word harem is strictly applicable to Mahommedan households only, but the system is common in greater or less degree to all Oriental communities, especially where polygamy is permitted.
The two households were on this account even more closely united in the garden than within the mill.
By ownership I mean such relationships as we see in the households of those who are represented in the letter of the Southern lady to her father.
In households where punctuality is really a principle, it should be a truth ever before all eyes that whatever each individual is about is of less importance than respect to the whole family.
Under all changes of place and householdswith their habits, he did and looked for the same things at exactly the same moment of every day.
This may be done in the most homely households where there is any nobility of mind.
Once for all, let me declare here what I hope will be remembered throughout, that I have no ambition to teach; but a strong desire to set members of households consulting together about their course of action towards each other.
The young men and women who came overseas to teach the children of Virginia were honored members of the households in which they lived.
They also employed dancing and music masters to visit their households at regular intervals.
The women of the Nile were, as a rule, remarkably faithful to their obligations to their gods, as they conceived them, and often to their households and to society.
Households were amply equipped religiously, for every home must be provided with some method of keeping itself free from the power of evil spirits.
In certain wild corners of Dorsetshire squirrels become almost familiars in such households as are kindly enough to set forth a dainty, now and again, for the frolicsome company.
When they could cook, wash, and spin, we sent them into good households to learn more.
Its main purpose is to present to American households a mass of good reading.
University] could not well carry out the requirements of study, or continue therein, if their servitors and households did not enjoy and use such and similar privileges as said members.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "households" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
