innkeeper

Often have I recalled the scene in John Buchan’s spy thriller “The 39 Steps” when the protagonist, Richard Hannay, tells his true but unlikely story to an innkeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

The introverted Ms. Grade acknowledged that she was a most unlikely innkeeper.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

Shelley Hunter, an innkeeper from Quincy, Calif., says airlines should be able to exclude kids from some flights.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

Moore complicates the timeline by interweaving another narrative, told via a series of letters written by an innkeeper to her sister just after the end of the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

Father chooses the innkeeper who sits on a stool in front of his inn.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Born about 1772, enslaved as a child and then set free by a family of German American potters, Mr. Commeraw began designing ceramics in the 1790s, including food storage vessels for oystermen and innkeepers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

A couple in upstate New York became impromptu innkeepers for South Korean tourists over the weekend after the visitors became stranded in an intense blizzard.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2022

The innkeepers are expected to wear multiple hats, and while it might sound like a daunting role, the job listing went viral around 2019.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

Most of the masks in the game are acquired through earning badges by performing tasks for some of the people Sable meets along her journey — innkeepers, machinists, etc.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021

He had given letters to the innkeepers everywhere, and they had promised to send them on.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White