house-keep

To love a husband and meet his needs, to teach your children and instill good values in them, and yes, even to house-keep, is spiritual. .it is not a matter of just fixing a meal or cleaning up a room.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

To love a husband and meet his needs, to teach your children and instill good values in them, and yes, even to house-keep, is spiritual. .it is not a matter of just fixing a meal or cleaning up a room.

The Better Part 2008

There'll be nothin 'to house-keep on till I can save up some more.'

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

“Are you going to house-keep, then, for the new châtelaine?”

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

“Perhaps Paul and Fenella would consider allowing me to house-keep for them,” said Millamant, with her first laugh that morning.

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

She refused to take my protest or her friends 'comment seriously; and so we drifted along in pleasant round of parties till the suns of May, brooding over the land lured us back to the Homestead, in which Zulime could house-keep all day long if she wished to do so, and she did!

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

She soon became an expert seamstress, but finding the employment too confining for health and comfort, she went boldly to work for others, to house-keep, cook, clean, &c.

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 60–89. Collect 1892

And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for these privileges, and never house-keep any more.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872

And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for these privileges, and never house-keep any more.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

She soon became an expert seamstress, but finding the employment too confining for health and comfort, she went boldly to work for others, to house-keep, cook, clean, &c.

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855