person of the house
Example Sentences
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"Ah," cried the person of the house, with a little scream as if the word had pricked her.
From Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
"Can you give the person of the house any information about this unfortunate creature, Snagsby?" inquires Mr. Tulkinghorn.
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
To Lucretia he owed his cardinalate, and he was a most devoted retainer; "an elderly man, a worthy person of the house of Borgia," so Pozzi wrote to Ferrara.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
This in a lower voice, but only as if it were a graver matter; not at all to the exclusion of the person of the house.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
As often as the person of the house worked her way round to it—even as soon as he saw that it was coming—he collapsed in an extra degree.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
