The Concord horse-block was a fine one; it was erected by the women of the town, each housewife giving a pound of butter toward the expense.
First, the housewife divorces her husband and breaks the marital band: that in itself constitutes the apostate State.
Thus it is in the power of the housewife to turn the work of the kitchen into a sacrifice of gladness, and to make the offices of the table a means of grace.
But the loveliest ornament of the room was without a doubt the housewife Schoendel, a blooming graceful woman of about thirty.
Here the careful housewife even before the break of the Sabbath had lit a well-filled lamp, that still burned clear.
Bjorn was a man who was always boasting and praising himself, but his housewife thought that bad.
Yet there are gratifying exceptions to the general rule, and sometimes a housewife may be met who takes pride and pleasure in her flower-beds.
Perhaps now the reader will be able to figure a little better the common texture of the life of a teacher or a housewife under Socialism.
For the rest, the housewife will be dealing on very similar lines to those she goes upon at present.
The Majorcan housewife takes special pride in her daintily embroidered house-linen.
We were in danger of making a meal of the sausage, when the little girl brought in a dish of the omelets that every Majorcan housewife makes to perfection.
So I am not that type mother, where I am a housewife with money, that the children have a home to come to.
Did you ever have any reason to believe that she was anything other than what she appeared to be, namely an ordinary housewife who had come to this country as the wife of an American whom she married?
A careful housewife or servant will soon completely destroy them.
Should prejudice, however, induce the housewife or cook to boil her coffee, it should be only just simmered for a minute, as long or violent boiling injures it considerably.
To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
The landlady saw, calmly put down her work, and coming up, pulled a hircine man or two hither, and pushed a hircine man or two thither, with the impassive countenance of a housewife moving her furniture.
Presently the housewife returned with a gracious, affectionate air, and two little gold pieces in her hand.
I never want the housewife to be able to say to the man of the house when he asks what mail came, that 'There's another letter from the firm that's trying to sell you a cream separator'.
If his letter has not persuaded the housewife to try a bottle of the olives, the picture on the enclosure is apt to create the desire in her mind and lead to a purchase.
Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off.
I play the noble housewife with the time, To entertain 't so merrily with a fool.
At nightfall it was perfectly surprising, the bower that lovely housewife and her children had made of the room.
And with fresh tears in her eyes the gentle housewife proceeded to make up the temporary couch, which she had so ingeniously contrived for her little beggar-guest.
Brandy exuded from the wound; for in that case the projection was a bladder, in which the prudent housewife was smuggling comfort in a quiet way.
The tea being now ready to go into the hands of the merchant, we need carry our observations no farther, as every housewifewill know better than we can tell her how to manage her own tea-pot.
The servant replies that his wife went to Vespers as usual, but the priest and his wife have already sat down to sup, yet the young housewife has not returned, and his little children are neither playing nor in bed, but weeping bitterly.
The Dutch blood on either side was stirred; and the good housewife commanded the little printer's respect as he looked round on a kitchen as tidy as if it in his own country.
Did the new housewife talk of a halter because he showed his teeth when her ill-nurtured brat wanted to ride on him?
At some lone homestead in the Cumnor hills, Where at her open door the housewife darns, Thou hast been seen, or hanging on a gate To watch the threshers in the mossy barns.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busyhousewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
He repeated his request, with which the housewife flatly refused to comply.
The peasant, as a rule, wants a wife who will bear him children, a housewife who will make good soup and take it out to him in the fields, who will spin and make his shirts and mend his clothes.
The prospective housewife buys them eagerly and devours them with avidity.
It is well for our housewife to have some test-stone duty by which she may rate the importance of other tasks.
Our native housewife does not make the effort to crowd this cavity with the product of her poultry yard.
The poor little housewife has many an anxious, tearful hour in striving to make both ends meet, while the most amiable husband cannot help wondering audibly "how it is they cannot live as cheaply as other people do.
Our housewifecarries her household forever bound upon her heart of hearts.
The money saved by this process is easily understood by the housewife whose cut-glass and egg-shell china are continually smashed to fragments by the hirelings whose own the fragiles are not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housewife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abbess; case; chatelaine; compact; dame; dowager; file; governess; matron; mistress
