keep house

In every new place he found himself a woman to keep house.

Here she had lived and kept house for her father.

Probably, he thought, the wife was dead, and this girl kept house for her father.

A woman's role in life is to care for her children, keep house and cook.

Girls could keep house, but not work in the fields.

Five streets later, he stood outside the door of a well- kept house.

Joan could keep house for him, and the police would never find them.

He married three women and kept house with a fourth.

Back home, she used to do for me, keep house, like that.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together.

To keep house on a yacht is no easy thing.

This also included women who could keep house and care for the sick.

He wanted my mother to stay because she was a good hostess and kept house well.

This man she went to keep house for asked her to marry him on Sunday night.

But anyone, male or female, should be able to cook, keep house, and care for children.

That's where we're going to end up, anyway, and probably keeping house together.

Part of the problem, he said, is the inability to keep housing, even if it can be found.

Only one of the housekeepers knew how to keep house.

Besides which, they said, she kept house and raised three sons.

I was young and strong, and had kept house myself for years.

Low interest rates are not just about keeping house prices stable.

Having a modest secondary education she married early and kept house.

"How under the canopy could you keep house without me?

I said I'd like to learn to keep house.

He was a widower, and his daughter kept house for him.