What is "housemother"

Usage examples of "housemother".

Leonard stared at the ceiling, he thought he understood what the Housemother had said about the nature of time here.

Not all of the residents had been Jewish boys in life, but they had all become Jewish boys in death because they had a Housemother who expected nothing less than perfection.

He expected the Housemother to wave her hands and start his insides boiling like so much stew.

The carpet would hold him as it always did whenever the Housemother wanted him in a certain place.

Leonard had wanted to know, but the Housemother had already turned to waddle back to the mansion.

Then he would follow and hide until the Housemother had finished showing the newcomer the portrait and the Progress Board.

He had told the golem he would attack, and to fail to do so would be to demonstrate that the Housemother had frightened him into obedience, that she had won.

Occasionally, he was even allowed to escort the Housemother to dinner.

When the Housemother closed the door again, though, he was able to see despite the green spots that swam in front of his eyes.

There are only four girls living in the house this summer, along with the housemother and her cat.

Surely the sorority girls and housemother knew the routine by now, I told myself as I teetered on one foot.

National would surely frown on an alliance between a housemother and a biker, no matter whom he quoted.

What a busy girl Jean had been, what with pledge-class picnics, lectures at the law school, pimping for her sisters, and blackmailing the dean, her housemother, and quite possibly other people.

I was appointed housemother of a dorm of ten legally blind boys whose ages ranged from six to eleven.

In the dorm to which I had been assigned housemother, five of the young boys were not only legally blind but were handicapped in other ways, too.