innkeeper
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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
“I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont ... “
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
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
But Shelley Hunter, an innkeeper from Quincy, Calif., has been watching the reservations for this June, July and August, and she says that’s nonsense.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
They laughed and laughed at his looks and at his speech, until the innkeeper came out to see what was going on.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
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
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
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