She wore a blue-checked calico apron that came to her throat, but the apron was clean, and her firm though furrowed face gave evidences of recent housewifely exertions.
When the Squire rode up to her door, the housewifely frau was busy preparing the soup, which forms so essential an item of dinner in Germany.
The Walpurgis eve was, according to the old stories, the great day when the witches assembled from all parts, and rode abroad on the wind, or else bestrode their housewifely brooms.
But, sir, do not make anxious your lady wife by saying that the giving up of the lands will make you both so extremely poor; God forbid that I should see the hands of a dignitary’s daughter hardened with housewifely labour.
We have pure and noble ideals, we are tender, motherly and housewifely (on the Woman's Page).
Hogg laughs at Harriett's ignorance of housewifely arts, and her inability even to order the wretched dinners served in her successive lodgings.
From this lack of housewifely knowingness and capacity, she suffered much and Shelley not a little.
To render existence fairly comfortable in any transient abiding-place, more especially when the abiding-place is a single set of rooms, it is needful for a woman to be an adept in housewifely arts and the smaller domestic economies.
Ruth added here and there such housewifely touches as only a woman can give.
It really looks very well," said Bettie, surveying the result with her head on one side and an air of housewifely wisdom that would have been more impressive if her nose hadn't been perfectly black with soot.
The canoe rocked in the swirls" 54 "And oh, the moment of housewifely pride!
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She talked with William and gave Essie a little housewifely advice about the making of soap, in which occupation Essie was engaged; she emptied her basket, then she rose to go.
As for going about in Millerstown, Katy laughed, as neat, aproned in housewifely fashion, she sat by her grandmother's bed.
What if he should sit down on this page and see what my housewifely conscience compels me to write, but not always to act upon!
The survey may give her housewifely satisfaction, and it may give her something to do or to have done.
Linnet was pre-eminently a housekeeper, to her mother's great delight, for her younger daughter was not developing according to her mind in housewifely arts.
I have yet to see a girl of these colonies who was not proficient in housewifely arts.
Harriet hath no housewifely tastes," he said hastily, "and my son shares her extravagant habits.
Besides, after the manner of most housewifely women, she always visited any failure in domestic arrangements on the head of the nearest male belonging to the family.
There was a rumor that the Doctor had murdered a former maid, for having, with housewifely instinct, swept away the cobwebs; some said that he had her skeleton in a closet.
There were housewifely duties; and more than one visitor saw the first lady of the land in her morning gown of gray stuff and a big white apron, for servants were not always equal to the state dinners.
Varina must learn how to manage a household; and girls had a good deal of instruction in housewifely arts in those days, even if there was a regiment of slaves to do everything.
Except for the housewifely tastes, it sounds, and in fact is, rather like a courtship in the Arabian Nights so far.
She was prepared to find her husband's sister unskilled to the point of incompetency in all the housewifely lore of which she was past mistress; for she, too, had her traditions.
Nora's housewifely accomplishments were but few, yet she could learn, and while learning she could at least take away the sting of those lonely hours, as her brother had said.
You left me Maurice Left the home I have kept since our dear Mother died, With such sisterly love and such housewifely pride, And you wandered afar, and for what cause, forsooth?
It was impossible not to feel a housewifely pride in the appearance of the place, and to exult in the spicy odours which told of the morning's bakings.
Each trip across the floor, from pantry to dining-room and back again, demonstrated housewifely efficiency.
Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both; and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger round the little mop and the old brush, that was never thrown away.
Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifely arts, and prettier than ever; for love is a great beautifier.
Fired with a housewifely wish to see her store-room stocked with home-made preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.
She was a housewifelylittle creature, and helped Hannah keep home neat and comfortable for the workers, never thinking of any reward but to be loved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housewifely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
