The Buffams were the landladiesof the house in Southampton Buildings, where Lamb lodged in town.
My sleeping hours were haunted by nightmares of landladies and impossible boarding-house bedrooms.
In the lap of the gods, probably, for I don't know how I shall find the time to interview landladies and pack my belongings in seven short days.
Really,' said Ursula, 'landladies are better than wives, nowadays.
I am jealous that men have such perfect landladies and such beautiful lodgings.
Landladies are ladder-rungs of progress, too; Kedzie's history might have been traced by hers.
It was striking five when she mounted to the attic, and she saw that Mrs. Shuttleworth, with the punctuality peculiar to cheap landladies when the lodger is out, had already brought up the tray.
Photographs were still being unpacked and set forth on mantelpieces; landladies still waxed garrulous of last week's business; Tony was still strolling about the towns on Sunday evenings, as he had done when she was with him.
Landladies are the object of the especial attentions of swindlers, and suffer very much from them.
Though I should like to see in the principal public square of every town and city a monument designed by an artist of ability placed to the enduring glory of the landladies of that place.
All semi-widowed landladieshave (it is their divine inspiration) large families of half-grown sons.
The erudite in landladies have, of course, cognizance of a class which are in no degree widows.
I should be remiss, however, in my chronicle did I not note that among these partial and ephemeral landladies occasionally are to be found pronounced landlady potentialities.
Those of this department of the race, however, frequently are not landladies in fibre, but merely incidentally.
While it may be, for aught I know, that all widows are not landladies, with very few exceptions all landladies worthy of the name are widows.
For are not landladies ancient institutions fostering the public weal, and in their field not a whit less deserving of homage than governors and soldiers?
I would say to a nation, show me your landladies and I will tell you your destiny.
There is in the galaxy of landladies quite another type, an exotic plant in the wondrously competent sisterhood, specimens of which may be found blooming here and there like some rare orchid.
And anyone who has reflected at all upon the phenomenon of landladies must have been struck by the singularly idiosyncratic character of their names.
There the species comes to luxuriant flower, so that to possess with the mind one or two well-developed London landladies is never to be without food for entertainment.
They only have twenty-five bob a week; one can't see them robbed by landladies who can let their rooms three times over.
There was the usual crowd of landladies who presented their cards and extolled the comfort and cleanliness of their rooms.
The good-will of the landladies was not the least admirable part of their economy.
A capital breakfast put us in condition for an early start, and the hospitable spirit of the Vladika was manifested in the refusal of the landladies to produce any bill.
And I wondered how Sam would carry out my brother's impossible orders, as landladies 'don't like things moved.
Under it too was the mart where the landladies who have invaded the little street exchange notes on their lodgers and boast of their ailments.
Now and then the policeman passed and spied suspiciously into the archway where the landladies no longer met.
Even most of thelandladies of these houses of sin and shame invited me in, when convenient.
Expenses are heavy and receipts light then, and the landladies offer an unusual degree of comfort to those who will help them to tide over this dull season.
Landladies and boarders are mutually suspicious of each other.
He consoles himself with one thought--in the next world landladies cease from troubling and boarding-houses do not exist.
Landladies are frequently swindled by adventurers of both sexes, and guests most commonly find that the hostess does not comply very strictly with her bargain.
But sometimes the landladies help in the distribution by bringing out scales and weighing the provisions.
Dry eyes would see us depart, mocking children would bid us sarcastic farewells, the kindly landladies and their fair daughters would laugh when we bade adieu and moved away to some destination unknown.
Our landladies met us at the doors as we came in, looks of entreaty on their faces and tears in their eyes.
With us, rations are served out daily at our billets; our landladies do the cooking, and mine, an adept at the culinary art, can transform a basin of flour and a lump of raw beef into a dish that would make an epicurean mouth water.
I have seen a great manylandladies who looked so severe on seeing a window open in a room where the register was also open, that the unhappy boarder felt at once like a culprit for even desiring both warmth and fresh air at the same time.
Some landladies do not know how a house ought to be kept, and some have no clear purpose of keeping it as it ought to be kept when they do know the way.
But the woman was sharp of perception--as often-cheated London landladies learn to be.
The landladies paid court to her, in the obsequious way landladies have.
We paid six guineas a week for three bedrooms and a sitting-room; but our landladies owned it was dear.
The landladies were, in fact, two elderly Church-of- England sisters from Dublin, who had named their house out of a novel they had read.
So, with the daily arrival of visitors, Cromer and its tradespeople and landladies forgot the curious affair which had afforded them such a "nine days' wonder.
The hotels, with the exception of the Paris, are closed, the boarding-houses are mostly shut, and the landladies who let apartments wait weeks and weeks in vain for the arrival of a chance visitor.
I am beginning to entertain towards her some of the feelings I had towards my landladies in the old unregenerate lodging-house days.
I dare say you are wondering, Miss Cusworth,' he said, 'to what this preamble on landladies is leading.
Landladies are the cantharides of our nineteenth century civilization, the great source of blister and irritation.
Of landladies in lodging-houses I have had a long and bitter experience.
I only know that my first forenoon's search for a habitation was rendered uncommonly difficult because I could not assure six gimleteyed landladies in rusty black that I was "wooed an' married an' all.
I had told six landladies that the hall bedroom I sought was for myself alone, and I had been banished at once, without further parley, from their presences.
And landladies that creep about, Well known as twenty stoners, Come shove your bustles up the spout, And join the dashing bloomers.
What did your landlords and landladies promise for you.
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