"Lady of the house" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lady of the house does all this. Her men are all in business or in pleasure, her sons are at work or off yachting. They cannot spend time to make their dinner calls—"Mamma, please leave my cards" is the ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... of our Kansas missionary societies a mulatto woman was employed as housekeeper. She has a very bright and attractive little girl, not yet three years old, whose full name is Alice May Lapsly. By the young lady of the house she has been pet-named "Pat," and so is called "little Pat" by the ladies of the missionary society. "Little Pat" became greatly interested in the young lady's mission box, and wanted one for herself. The young lady procured a little modern barrel for her, and the child has ...
— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 2, February, 1896 • Various
... relations, about whom she concerned herself very little, especially after a casual visit from one of her brothers, an infantry officer of the line. On the day after his arrival he had made a great disturbance and almost beaten the lady of the house, calling her "du lumpenmamselle," though only the evening before he had called her in broken Russian: "sister and benefactor." Lizaveta Prohorovna lived almost permanently on her pretty estate which had been won by the labours of her husband who had been an ...
— Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... boy!" sighed the lady of the house. "He never considers my comfort—and after all I have done for him!" And then she turned once more to her ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... or fourth day of my sojourn at the Live Oak Inn, the lady of the house, noticing my peripatetic habits, I suppose, asked whether I had been to the old sugar mill. The ruin is mentioned in the guide-books as one of the historic features of the ancient settlement of New Smyrna, but I had forgotten the fact, and was thankful to receive a description of the place, ...
— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey
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