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"Hostess" Quotes from Famous Books

... had emerged from the kitchen door. She was plainly the hostess. I set down my bag and removed ...

— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... her delicate hands. Mistress Winter was busily occupied with a skillet containing some savoury compound, and the Friar's eyes twinkled with expectant gastronomic delight as he watched the proceedings of his hostess. Supper being at last ready, the three prepared to do justice to it, while Agnes waited upon them. A golden flood of buttered eggs was poured upon the dish in front of the Friar, a cherry pie stood before ...

— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt

... looking at her, the sensation that most men have felt at one time or another went stealing through him—a peculiar satisfaction of the senses, a peculiar certainty, which novelists and old ladies call love at first sight. Still stealthily watching her, he at once made his way to his hostess, and stood doggedly waiting for the music ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... for your kindness," replied the smiling hostess. "We are always happy to have our friends around us, and none more than yourself and family. We were fortunate in finding a friend to supply your son's place, in order that the young people might go to the altar in a proper manner. ...

— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper

... aye—a full muster," answered the old mild-faced hostess, who was busily employed knitting a stocking of pale blue in the porch, looking for all the world like the sainted mother of a ...

— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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