What is "lady of the house"

Usage examples of "lady of the house".

We'd like to see the lady of the house, Mrs He snapped his fingers.

Denied a part in Buntokapi's decisions, and shamed by the way he treated some of the servants, the Lady of the house seemed to retreat within herself.

Why else petition the Lady of the house that's entering into peril?

Healers came, chirurgeons and a priest of Dala, and another from a sect down in the desert of Great Kesh, but none could revive the lady of the house when Lyman lowered the time spell.

Subsequently I'd been overseer on a plantation, lost my situation for rogering the lady of the house, escaped North with a female octoroon slave who'd killed two men en route, been shot in the backside by pursuers while crossing the Ohio River, found refuge with Congressman Abraham Lincoln who'd dragooned me into testifying at the adjudication on Spring's slave-ship in New Orleans, been unwillingly reunited with my dear old commander who had then murdered one Omohundro in a pub, fled with him to seek shelter with a whore of my acquaintance who'd obligingly had old J.

Walsh stood to the side of the door and bowed to Bel, the lady of the house.

He requested permission to show his tricks in the presence of the lady of the house.

Once almost every household had had one, and the lady of the house fitted her hand-made clothing to it.