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Sentences starting with household

Household Troops. [5]

Sentences ending with household

Of course, matters would be more favourable to Philotas in any other household. [10]
Of that it will be easier to judge after a glance at the conditions and character of the minister and his household. [6]
The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
In fact, things were going very well with Mrs. Mavick, except in her own household. [4]
Eliza Westbrook, sister-in-law, was still of the household. [5]
W'y--" But the voice of the butler recalled them from the fields of imagination, and they went with lordly leisure upon the business of the household. [11]
Lily of the valley, growing in the shade now,--perhaps better there until her petals drop; and yet if she is all I often fancy she is, how her youthful presence would illuminate and sweeten a household! [6]
You love him truly, and in four long years he has been with you but a month or two; your mother remained with you, and you hardly observed that she was managing your own house for you, and took all the trouble of the household. [10]
And his granddaughter too, whose disguised selfishness was the light of his household! [6]
A second letter to Twichell, something more than a month later, shows a somewhat improved condition in the Clemens household. [5]

Short sentences using household

The King's household servants. [5]

More example sentences with the word household in them

Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
He has tact--as you saw--and would make a wonderful master of ceremonies, a splendid comptroller of the household and equerry and lord-chamberlain in one. [11]
Stephanion, a Greek woman who grew up in a Macedonian household, must know something about her. [10]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets. [2]
After dinner the whole Rostov household set to work with enthusiastic haste packing their belongings and preparing for their departure. [2]
The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
On another occasion, when Bynner had written a poem to Clara Clemens, her father pretended great indignation that the first poem written by Bynner to any one in his household should not be to him, and threatened revenge. [5]
All of these were come out of curiosity, that they might see for themselves any who had the temerity to bid on a neighbor's household goods. [9]
In France as well as in England the name Sims is a household word, and if he chose he might be feted every day of the week. [9]
Besides, all the weight of care involved in the household preparations pressed on the bride in this case--not unpleasantly, only to the full occupation of her time. [14]
A great weight was taken off, and the spirits of the whole household rose magically. [5]
His daughter's presence was probably due to that of the guests quartered in his home, especially Cordula, whom, since she disturbed the peace of his quiet household night after night, he regarded as the personification of restlessness and reckless freedom. [10]
The left wing was occupied by the officers of the household, the innumerable servants and the horses and chariots of the sovereign. [10]
The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess. [2]
But the party was given by a daughter of Abraham, and in every Hebrew household the true Sabbath was over. [6]
The household cat was asleep on this work of art. [5]
The old Moslem was a just man, who would agree to a mitigated sentence under the circumstances; besides, the culprit was not in strict fact a member of the household, but in the service of a relation. [10]
I see the wagons containing the viands of the royal household just driving away from the kitchen. [10]
After Shelley's (conjectured) visit to Harriet at Bath--8th of June to 18th--"it seems to have been arranged that Shelley should henceforth join the Skinner Street household each day at dinner. [5]
Here I found various articles of use in a household, some of which were new to me. [6]
I have written upon the paper round it to warn off all the young persons of my household from meddling with it. [6]
Henrica had grown up among her father's boon companions, amid the clinking of glasses and hunting-shouts, Maria in a grave burgher household, and what they told each other seemed like tidings from a strange world. [10]
Agne's flight remained unperceived for some little time, for every member of the merchant's household was at the moment intent on some personal interest. [10]
There stood her two suitors side by side in the starlight, illumined by the glare of the pitch torches blazing beside the carts and household utensils which had been packed for the morrow's journey. [10]
In Tuolumne lived two miners who used to go to the neighboring village in the afternoon and return every night with household supplies. [5]
Has he, through trials, close following in dread march through his household, sweeping the hearthstone bare of life and love, still striven hard for strength to say, "It is the Lord! [14]
Ruth only went to town twice a week to attend lectures, and the household was quite to Mr. Bolton's taste, for he liked the cheer of company and something going on evenings. [5]
He rushed off to the town again and again, but only to return each time to enhance the anguish of the household by relating all sorts of horrors which he had picked up in his wanderings. [10]
She was happy to show her gratitude to the kind schoolmaster by busying herself in the performance of such household duties as his little cottage stood in need of. [12]
She had come to see the paragon of whom her son had written so enthusiastically, and to learn whether it would be possible to yield to the youth's urgent desire to establish a household of his own. [10]
I was going to say Mark Twain, his literary title, which is a household phrase in more homes than that of any other man, and you know him best by that dear old title. [5]
It is incredible to reflect that things as familiar all over the world to-day as household words, belong in the history and in the shadowy legends of this silent, mournful solitude. [5]
You read it to me, and it was mighty good; I read it last night and it was better; I read it aloud to the household this morning and it was better than ever. [5]
They were told to keep their own counsel, and not rouse the suspicions of the household. [5]
She was attentive to her grandfather; exact with her household duties. [11]
Each was expecting to hear of houses overwhelmed and families destroyed; but each came with the story that his own household was safe. [6]
She was dressed to go to church, and after expressing her delight at the honor done to herself and her whole household by the prelate's visit, she invited Orion to accompany her. [10]
Love prefers twilight to daylight; and a man doesn't think much of, nor care much for, a woman outside of his household, unless he can couple the idea of love, past, present, or future, with her. [6]
Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art. [6]
The household was, to all appearance, asleep at the usual early hour. [6]
From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezukhov's household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was. [2]
Her father had thought at first to house her with his old friend Edward Gering, but he loved the Cavalier-like tone of Colonel Nicholls's household better than the less inspiriting air which Madam Puritan Gering suffused about her home. [11]
It was as though she was the authority in the household and took control even of her mother. [11]
It was for this reason that Timotheus, on rejoining his household, had assured them that, as he thought over this interview, he expected something good--yes, perhaps the best--from the young criminal in the purple. [10]
There were other things on sale also, not for eating and drinking, but for wear and household use--from pots and pans to rag- carpets and table-linen, from woollen yarn to pictures of the Virgin and little calvaries. [11]
Troubles were gathering thick round her; how soon they would break upon her, and blight or destroy her, no one could tell; but there was nothing in all the catalogue of terrors which might not come upon the household at any moment. [6]
At any rate, they undertake the lighter menial duties of some household where they are not known, and, having stooped--if stooping it is to be considered--to lowly offices, no born and bred servants are more faithful to all their obligations. [6]
Do you know they play the part in the household which the king's jester, who very often had a mighty long head under his cap and bells, used to play for a monarch? [6]
I first heard them made the subject of an animated exchange of thought in the Dirichlet household, where Professor Baum emerged from his aristocratic composure to denounce vehemently materialism and its apostles. [10]
They had piled their packing-boxes in the cellar, with broken chairs, broken china, and other household wrecks. [6]
Coming out of the sweet sanity of the Bolton household, this was by contrast the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive. [5]
I saw crossing the street a middle-aged woman,--a decent body, who looked as if she might have come from the lower level of some not opulent but respectable household. [6]
The Signora read the service, the household responding--a twenty minutes' service, which is as much a part of the administration of the establishment as visiting the granaries and presses, and the bringing home of the goats. [4]
The news of the President looks decidedly hopeful, and we are all glad, and the household faces are much improved, as to cheerfulness. [5]
He remained in the palace scarcely half an hour and then, while Pollux was still engaged in escorting his mother and their household goods to his sister's house, he went to visit the night magistrate, who presided over the safety of Alexandria. [10]
Old Martsche received the order to send Ortel, the youngest manservant in the household, a good-natured fellow eighteen years old, with a basket, to wait for her and Sister Perpetua at the weir. [10]
From early in the morning, wearing a dressing jacket, she attended to her household affairs, and then she drove out: on holy days to church and after the service to jails and prisons on affairs of which she never spoke to anyone. [2]
This was all the more trying to bear, as she was obliged to take an active share in the household work,--one servant being ill in bed, and the other, Tabby, aged upwards of eighty. [14]
She was watching the married people about her with more interest-the Morgans, our own household, Mrs. Fletcher; and besides, her aunt, whose even and cheerful life lacked this experience. [4]
But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]
At eight o'clock the largest bell was struck, and the Signora and all her household, including the house servants, went out to the little chapel in the garden, which was suddenly lighted with candles, gleaming brilliantly through the orange groves. [4]
For four months the Khedive was never told the truth save by European financiers, when truths were obvious facts; for four long months never saw a fearless or an honest eye in his own household. [11]
The members of the household were all gathered in the reception hall: Michael Ivanovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess Mary, and the little princess. [2]
At this moment the high-steward of the prince's household approached, and with a low obeisance delivered to Psamtik a sealed papyrus letter, with the words: "From your father, the king. [10]
There they found the gardener and all the household, anxiously watching for the return of their belated mistress. [10]
On the contrary, the first inspection of the tables suggested the prospect of days of unstinted luxury; and the younger portion of the household, especially, were in a state of great excitement as the account of stock was taken with reference to future internal investments. [6]
In one of the few rooms of his vast palace which the chief priest had reserved for the accommodation of the members of his own household, the youth was received by Melissa, Timotheus's wife Euryale, and the lady Berenike. [10]
At night, in the darkness, he took his departure, no servant of the household in attendance. [11]
Passing rapidly through the corridors, I told a servant of the household what had occurred, bade him send for Bigot, and then made for my own safety. [11]
In any case, the coming of the wife must alter all the relations existing in the household of the widow Tynan. [11]
Patrick McAleer, George the butler, and others of their household help had been like members of the family. [5]
The ringing of the alarm-bell in the tower also disturbed the night's rest of the ladies in the Van der Werff household. [10]
I write for the "People's Perennial and Household Inquisitor. [6]
But it implies that our own household must be swept and cleaned. [9]
Suddenly he remembered that it was like the face of a servant of Imshi Pasha--a kind of mouffetish of his household. [11]
Now she rejoiced that her wealthy father imposed no restriction upon her in the management of household affairs, for she need spare no expense in choosing the animal she intended to offer as a sacrifice. [10]
It is clear that he must belong to the household since the dog did not attack him. [10]
It is certain, that freedom from household routine, variety of character and talent, variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency; broke up routine. [6]
He had returned that evening to a dreary household. [9]
She was in that arid household as the prophet in the land where there was no dew nor rain for these long years. [6]
You see I take a vile, mercenary view of things--but then my household expenses are something almost ghastly. [5]
That household was symptomatic--if they liked--of the new order of things; and it was rare indeed when both members of it were at home to entertain them. [9]
As Hiram had supposed, the better class of the household were still sitting with their friends, and they had been joined by the guide and by the Arab merchant's head man: Rustem the Masdakite, as well as his secretary and interpreter. [10]
Yea, and that sunbeam had cast its light far and wide in the coppersmith's home, and illumined Ann likewise, so that she now saw the old mother of the household in a new light. [10]
Labor was beautifully subdivided in this lady's household. [6]
Mrs. Clemens's bodily strength came up handsomely under that cheery respite from household and nursery cares. [5]
Then came the story of that other incident, sufficiently alluded to already, which had produced such an ecstasy of fright and left such a nightmare of apprehension in the household. [6]
When we presently stood in the presence, in front of a crowd of glittering officers of the army, Joan greeted us with a winning smile, and said she appointed all of us to places in her household, for she wanted her old friends by her. [5]
It was a southern family, and of good blood; and for any person except Laura, either within or without the household to have suggested such an idea would have brought upon the suggester the suspicion of being a lunatic. [5]
Each felt that something oppressed the pride and favorite of the household, but did not attempt to discover the cause; they knew the moods to which he was sometimes subject for half a day. [10]
The Doctor answered solemnly, that of the day and hour we knew not, but it became us to be always ready.--"Is there anything going on in the household different from common? [6]
Nothing could be soberer than the cut of the dresses which the propriety of the severe household had established as the rule of her costume. [6]
Clement Lindsay was so well received at his first visit that he ventured to repeat it several times, with so short intervals that it implied something more than a common interest in one of the members of the household. [6]
The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. [5]
Ruth felt that she was of less consequence in the household, now that Philip had found Coal, and perhaps she was not sorry to feel so. [5]
Here was one, she thought, who might well be in her household, or leading a regiment of her troops. [11]
Two years before she had spent a whole month as a guest in his wealthy household, and she intended now to seek shelter there again. [10]
The stern duty she had had to do had been healthful, albeit she had good cause to fear for the future; for, with her father, the household would lose the bread-winner. [10]

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