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Usage examples of household.

Instead, their grandson became the target of the unseen forces afflicting the household.

After making appointments, writing schedules, letters, and notes that would allow our household to continue in its predictable harmony, she marked the mirror in her hotel room with an annulling X in bright red lipstick, paid her bill with cash, flirted with, the doorman, and gave a large tip to the boy who brought her the car.

Every day, at the appointed hours, the principal officers of the state, the army, and the household, approaching the person of their sovereign with bended knees and a composed countenance, offered their respectful homage as seriously as if he had been still alive.

The Germans have an almost superstitious belief in the medicinal virtues of Aniseed, and all their ordinary household bread is plentifully flavoured with the whole seeds.

Schools, did not remember the broader patterns of responsibilities and kinship that operated in Barding households, and it struck her for the first time.

People at Raynham were put on their guard by the baronet, and his reputation for wisdom was severely criticized in consequence of the injunctions he thought fit to issue through butler and housekeeper down to the lower household, for the preservation of his son from any visible symptom of the passion.

He was about thirty when, having taken service for a year in the household of Ploron, head forester to the Ban of Sarkid, he met his daughter Keremnis at the spring festival and, without the least thought of bettering himself but simply in the course of his own pleasure, got her with child.

Amid the cackle of geese and blattering of lambs, Haelf welcomed them, and his household at once began preparing a royal feast.

He had a small household, a daughter living with him, bottler, grooms and other servants, as well as various outside workers.

Crude brawlers, these self-styled cantrev lords are unfit to command even their own households.

The preferred gathering place was the large, bustling Josiah Quincy household at the center of town, where a great part of the appeal was the Quincy family.

Innocent found himself obliged to launch upon the household of the king the edict of excommunication and interdict.

The thin margin of their prosperity and the absurdity of calling them exploiters was revealed in Soviet census data examined by Richard Pipes, showing that only 2 percent of peasant households had any hired help, and these averaged one employee each.

With a final sneeze, Flax bade his guest good night, and shortly afterward, the household settled into peaceful slumber.

Hathol, son of Magor, son of Malach Aradan, entered the household of Fingolfin in his youth, and was loved by the King.