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Example sentences for "housewifery"

Lexicographically close words:
housetop; housetops; housewarming; housewife; housewifely; housewives; housework; houshold; housholde; housing
  1. Ill Housewifery lieth till ten of the clock; Good Housewifery trieth to rise with the cock.

  2. Ray Balderston, of Teachers College, for reading the chapters on Housewifery and Laundering; Professor May B.

  3. Women are still to study housewifery before all else, and to shun learning as an unprofitable thing.

  4. And now the world is altered; young gentlewomen learn to be bold, talk loud and more than comes to their share, think it disparagement for them to know what belongs to good housewifery or to practise it.

  5. In offering the work to the publishers, under whose able management it has prospered so wonderfully, I said: “I have written this because I felt that such a Manual of Practical Housewifery is needed.

  6. In all households, even in those of great wealth and many servants, assistance was given in all housewifery by the daughters of the household.

  7. There is more scope for the use of brains in housewifery than in almost any of the other careers open to women, and this possibly is why so many women are fighting shy of it.

  8. One may well pray for a reaction, if indeed the art of housewifery is not past praying for.

  9. For, after all, it is housewifery to which nearly all the arts and sciences bring their secrets.

  10. The products of housewifery speak for themselves; they are no empty expressions of sentiments which may be false or true.

  11. In housewifery there can be but little pretence, for no ignorance may remain hid.

  12. Mrs. Makin's inchoate plans contemplated little more than the ordinary school for housewifery and accomplishments, with the addition of solid learning for those who could be lured into it.

  13. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries could show a long list of interesting and elaborately worked-out books on housewifery in general and cooking in particular, but it seldom happens that one of these books is by a woman.

  14. Mrs Woodville, the mother, had been brought up with all the ideas of economy and housewifery which at that time of day prevailed in the city, and influenced the education of the daughters of citizens.

  15. My heart bleeds for many a young couple whom I see launching out into the sea of matrimony with no housewifery experience.

  16. A month spent before marriage in a training home of housewifery would conduce much more to the happiness of the married life than the honeymoon which immediately follows it.

  17. The popular impression as to the housewifery of pen-wrights had no confirmation within the modest domicile of which Agnes Ashe was the presiding genius.

  18. Her practical knowledge of all departments of housewifery had already gained for her Mary Ann’s profound respect.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housewifery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.