Perhaps it had blown out the window, in which case it would be brushed up by the janitress and never thought of again.
She felt sure that the janitress meant Miss De Courcy's drunken brother, and she was very glad that "old Lowder" was not so particular, for she shuddered to think how lonely she should be were it not for the back flat to the right.
The fat janitresssometimes stopped to gossip a moment with Druse.
For days together he talked to nobody but his dog and the janitress and the lame oysterman.
He was the only person in the house who ever went to the roof, and he had a secret understanding with the janitress about it.
The janitress was taking her evening airing on the basement steps.
This caused a passing unpleasantness between one big white goat and the janitressof the tenement on the corner.
She heard the janitressclatter through the halls, lock the door, and descend the stairs to her own rooms in the basement.
The janitress can send Edith to me as soon as she comes, and I will leave her with Lisa while I run back here to consult with you and Helen.
She said she had but one request to make; her janitress must not be removed.
The janitress was the one who pressed for an answer.
It must have been this effect of restlessness and anxiety that made the janitress speak to her at last: "Expecting friends to meet you?
Cornelia began to be anxious about her own fate, in case she should not get away before the janitress had to shut up.
She was in the act of accepting his apology for the delay when the janitress spoke to her, and she said: "I don't know whether I'd better wait any longer.
Cornelia thought she might respond so far as to say, "I'm from Ohio," and the janitress seemed to appreciate the confidence.
As if she had done now all that sympathy demanded for Cornelia, the janitress went about some work in another part of the room and left the girl to herself.
But this was at least her self-delusion, and Cornelia had an instant in the confusion when it seemed as if Ludlow's coming had somehow annulled the tacit deceit she had practised in letting the janitress suppose she expected some one.
The generous and sympathetic welcome of our new janitress was like balm.
And there is no telling what else might not have happened if, at that moment, thejanitress had not begun to call again, though this time it was Cis she wanted.
As for him, he was fairly on pins and needles to know what it was the janitress wanted.
The janitress looked at her in amazement and said she had thought at once when she saw the old crippled woman creeping down the stairs two hours before that all was not right in her head.
Trembling with fear, Caillette hurried downstairs and asked the janitress whether she had seen anything of the "Burned Woman.
He had interviewed the faded old wreck who served as janitress and, learning that Mrs. Munger would be back any minute, had taken this method of being within touching distance when the good woman unlocked her door.
The janitress halted them as they passed and told them that Mrs. Reardon was dead.
Susan was so doubtful that she paused to ask the janitress about it.
She didn't take her things," said the janitress meaningly.
The janitress debated, shifted her baby from one arm to the other, glanced inquiringly at the other women.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "janitress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: char; cleaner; custodian; janitor
