Wet, dirty weather, which obliges us tokeep house most of the time.
Stormy, so that we keep house, except when we go to draw our provisions.
He must get used to women, he supposed; get to be half a woman himself; learn how to keep house; be a perfect Betty.
She thought of the soupless dinner he had mentioned, and of the alms-house provision of boiled rice and raisins, and she felt for a moment, what bliss to keep house for a man with such an appetite and no ascetic tendencies.
I know you wouldn't like her as a neighbor, but I can't keep house alone--that was demonstrated long ago.
Is it not a shame to manage so, with eight guineas a week to keep house on!
The son of Sirach says that he would rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than to keep house with a wicked woman.
I said to my wife after supper: 'My dear, it seems to me it costs a lot of money to keep house.
An American newspaper lately addressed the following wise words to young women: "Learn to keep house.
I believe we all have comfortable homes, and it will be much more sensible for her to live amongst us than try to keep house, and take care of this place.
After much talk and some bickerings, it was arranged that mother had better not try to keep house, but would spend a year or two at a time around among them all.
I have often heard people say it was much cheaper to board than to keep house.
You an' me'll keep house together, Stevy, at the Hole in the Wall.
Why, he was agoin' to keep house all by hisself, with all the pluck in life, till his father come home!
The child will-seldom be told, "This is to teach you how to keep house.
She may never "keep house," although we hope that she will some time help to make a home.
Your Aunt Lucindy's comin' to keep house, ain't she?
She's goin' to keep house for us till he gets back.
Perhaps it's all right to keep house, if you have a big family, or lots of money and can hire all the fussing done.
Connecticut "in 1636 would not allow any young unmarried man to keep house.
And then I heard for the first time of the "sort of cousin" who had come to keep house for my grandfather, and to bring up the little girl of four.
I asked him if he really thought that not to have enough money to keep house on was worse than not to have enough love to keep house on.
Our extravagant days are over, and the time has come to show you that Bettina knows how to keep house.
I am planning to have a fireless cooker when I keep house.
But he has been urging you to keep house for so long!
O, I like to keep house," cried Fly, holding up her trailing robes, and dancing over a carpet seam.
Can you consent to let the little girls 'keep house,' as they call it?
If they think of the responsibility at all, they comfort themselves with the delusion that it is every woman's natural gift to keep house; but housekeeping and home-making are two different things, though each is dependent on the other.
If I learn to keep house in mother's way I shall be perfectly satisfied.
I found out later that this wasn't at all a proper way to keep house, giving no orders, and leaving things to the discretion, of the cook.
We couldn't keep house without it," I finished, rather proudly.
She thought it was the most delightful thing conceivable to keep house, to be married, to be the wife of Colonel Carter.
It costs more for two people to keep house than to board.
Well, if we are going to live in New Boston, why can't we keep house?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
