A daughter of a landlord or a landlady might say that.
She may be of good family, finely educated, and a great many more things, but all that goes for nothing beside the fact that for over five years she has been the landlady of a little hotel.
My landlady might have been pleased to have me stay, but if I had agreed to pay my board during my absence I do not doubt that my empty room would have occasioned her no pangs of regret.
It appeared that the fact of her having been the landlady of the Holly Sprig made no difference in his case.
No, the landlady said; he had gone out on the beach with his little grandson.
He knelt down by the bed and kissed the pillow tenderly, the landlady crying as he did so.
One time they asked for hot water, but the American landlady threw up her hands and cried, "Oh, my dears!
This was why he had gone off without telling her and why he left orders with his landlady not to let out where he had gone, if any one came to inquire for him.
But at that instant he saw in the corner, by the little bed, Ilusha’s little boots, which the landlady had put tidily side by side.
The landlady is laying the table for them now—there’ll be a funeral dinner or something, the priest is coming; shall we go back to it, Karamazov?
As Alyosha went out of the house he begged the landlady to look after those who were left behind, but she interrupted him before he had finished.
In that case your landlady will remember that the thing was lost?
No Soho landladywould provide such a piano as that.
My landlady only asks five shillings a week for the attic.
The landlady has a little attic to let, by no means a grand apartment, but it will serve for your sister.
Our landlady is a quaint old personage, with a strong Cheshire accent.
Having been told that the landlady was exorbitant in her demands, I rang for her, specified what we wanted, and asked her charges.
They were converted, the landlady tells me, by the wife of the English clergyman!
The Landlady was doing what she could to discourage the Beef Trust, but she carried a heavy line of Oatmeal.
Mr. Cobbe replied by a mute but expressive piece of pantomime and took me back to the bar, where the good landlady ratified all that her husband had promised in her name.
They had taken off his cap and beard, and the landlady was endeavoring to pour some brandy down his throat; but his teeth were fast set, and his lips were blue and cold.
He asked what it was all about, and the landlady replied with great copiousness of detail.
I learned afterwards that the Breton lost his fifty crowns, and was condemned besides to pay costs; the landlady had to pay as much more.
The landlady replied with great dignity, "And where is the family in the world, however good its blood may be, but you may pick some holes in its coat?
A person hiring a lodging, said to the landlady, I assure you, madam, I am so much liked, that I never left a lodging but my landlady shed tears.
A termagant sempstress coming to dun a young fellow at his lodgings, where he was terribly afraid to have his landlady hear; she began to open her quail pipes at a great rate, but was presently seized with a fit of coughing.
The good landlady came, therefore, and knelt by Winifred's side, put her arm about her, and began to console and question her.
The shutters were all closed, and our landlady told us that on one occasion when a pretty dancer called La Reggiana was sleeping in the same room, the king had seen her in 'puris naturalibus'.
I asked them to come in, and Sara told me that the landlady would not let their belongings out of the house before her father paid a debt of forty guineas, although a city merchant had assured her it should be settled in a week.
As they prepare to go aboard, the stout landlady meets them in the hall.
As the two depart, the stout landlady of the Eagle follows the retreating Colonel Arnold with shocked, insulted glance.
The stout landlady by way of topping out the feast is adding thereunto an apple pie, moonlike as her face and its sister for size and roundness.
I stated that I would occupy it alone, gave the landlady twenty dollars for four weeks’ possession of the room, then went down to the boat and sent my trunk up by an express wagon.
The landlady hissed: "I'm not hard on you, but I need money.
Besides, it was made for the future, and he had need of food now, and he must go to his lodgings with a heavy heart--what would his landlady say?
The landlady paused at the door, and kept on with her grumbling.
The landlady asked quietly and spitefully: "Are you going to pay or not, you Kazan and Astrakhan correspondent, you impudent face?
The Grand Duchess turned pale, for the landladyhad suddenly exhibited these signs of emotion while passing a window of the private sitting-room.
It may, therefore, be readily imagined how Mr. Watt must have felt, on finding the son of his landlady familiarly addressing him on subjects of metaphysics and poetry.
The tourists had, on their road, purchased a fine large bass of a fisherman, with the intention of desiring the landlady to dress it.
Our landlady came out and looked uneasily up and down.
It seems there are several rooms, and the colonel says his landlady will take the best of care of them.
There are one or two rooms vacant, and the landlady seems very pleasant.
After two days' performance of these honourable duties, the Commissary of Police made a descent upon the inn, arrested the landlord and landlady and carried away my account books with him.
The lady from Paris and the landlady of the inn greeted each other with a wink of the eye.
However, when the tea came, she made the landlady sit down with her, and asked her abundance of questions, about the villages and roads in the neighbourhood.
I wish that landlady would learn to laugh in a more cheering manner; it makes one feel as if there was some one dead in the house.
The landlady had manifested a particular interest in him since he had told her that he had paid a visit to the sacristan and bought an old book from him.
The jug was so small and the window so high that it can hardly have been visible from the street, but my landlady came to me excitedly and said the police would be on her before the day was out if the jug was left there.
Another German landlady was of a different type, a big buxom bustling creature, who spent most of the day in her husband's coal sheds, helping him with his books and taking orders.
Supper in Germany is the easiest meal in the day to provide, as you buy the substantial part of it at a Delikatessenhandlung, and find that even a German landlady will condescend to get you rolls and butter and beer.
They will steal all they can lay hands on," our landlady assured us.
The cooking landladyis as rare in the country as in the town.
To be sure, the landlady does not cook for you, and the bed-sitting-room is not considered sordid in Germany.
He said the din of electric trams, overhead trains, motor cars, and heavy lorries helped his landlady and her family to suffer a Beethoven sonata quite gladly.
I called upon him two or three times after this, but he was not in; at last, his landlady told me that he had permanently left her house the very day before.
Such a nice lady and gentleman and such a splendid car; they are grand friends for you to have,' the landlady said.
Our landlady said she could not get breakfasts at that unearthly hour, as she should not be up herself, so we just had some biscuits, and I am hungry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landlady" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
