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Definition of Housekeeps
1. housekeep [v] - See also: housekeep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housekeeps
Literary usage of Housekeeps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"Many housekeeps are crippled in their work by an insufficient supply of spoons,
knives and forks. Too often those to be found in the kitchen are worn with ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... connected in some way with the Church: I would hazard a guess that she housekeeps
for her brother, who may be a canon or perhaps a rural dean. ..."
3. English Literature in Account with Religion, 1800-1900 by Edward Mortimer Chapman (1910)
"It was — a doubtful song, Its meaning faint or none, but mingled up Of all that
nests and housekeeps in the heart,/ Or puts out in lone passion toward the ..."
4. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical by John Cumberland (1828)
"Sol. Yes;—one of the unhappy incendiaries. Tor. Show him into the breakfast-parlour.—And
conduct this gentleman to the housekeeps. « room. ..."
5. Our Fellow Shakespeare: How Everyman May Enjoy His Works by Horace James Bridges (1916)
"Shakespeare gives us at the last a doubtful song, Its meaning faint or none, but
mingled up Of all that nests and housekeeps in the heart, Or puts out in ..."
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