Sentence examples for old housekeeper from inspiring English sources

His uncle's old housekeeper, Mrs. Vail thwarted every effort the writer made to sell the furniture.

On her journey to Bly, the Governess ponders her position's uncertainties: the orphaned children, the old housekeeper, and her instructions not to contact her charges' only relative.

Solomon, grandson of her old housekeeper, turns up out of the blue and tells her he plans to look after her.

(Spiel read Bowen's novel "The Death of the Heart" and dreamed of living, like Bowen, in a house with "beautiful flower-vases and an old housekeeper creeping inaudibly up and down the stairs").

The writer soon realized that his presence in Havana as one of only a few Americans living there had become a source of discomfort to some officials, so he hired Che Guevara's old housekeeper, Sofia Gato, to try to ease tensions.

As in Norton's original, a sickly teenage boy comes to stay at a rather grand house with his pleasant aunt and a surly old housekeeper, and on his arrival he spots Arrietty, one of the little people, as his own father and grandfather had also done as children.

A brief recap: In an extraordinary day in California politics, Whitman's campaign convened a morning press conference in Santa Monica, to try to soothe a state press corps in full bay, and to put to rest the heated dispute over the candidate's long-term employment relationship with Nicky Diaz, her 31-year old former housekeeper.

But in some mortgage circles, Ms. Palmer, a 74-year-old former housekeeper, has earned her moment of fame.

The lawsuit settled in New York on Monday relates to claims by Nafissatou Diallo, a 33-year-old former housekeeper at the upmarket Sofitel hotel in Manhattan.

A survey in 1937 by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire also noted a brass plate by the north nave window commemorating the 18th-century bequest of a Catherine Roberts to "two old housekeepers of unblemished character".

A 44-year-old housekeeper delivered them.