1 Daily they became more frankly two girls playing at housework.
2 But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 3 There've been a good many times when we hadn't a maid, and I did all the housework, and cared for Hugh, and went to Red Cross, and did it all very efficiently.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVI 4 It was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not adventurous.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 5 My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold which made the housework heavy for her.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X 6 Often, too, they are girls that didn't know what they were coming to, that had hired out for housework.
7 Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 8 She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT 9 He did his own housework and dug in his garden.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 5