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

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

Audience members also got a glimpse of Olivia Colman as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka's mother.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2023

The later show, which featured Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper, ended with him waking up in Chicago next to his on-screen wife from “The Bob Newhart Show,” revealing the second series to be dream.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

"I can make some soup for ye," the old innkeeper says, as if it were the greatest hardship he's ever faced.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

For a number of years, the marathon included both a racing and touring division and featured refueling stops with delectable fare provided by local innkeepers and restaurateurs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 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