The hotelkeeper and his wife, we were told, were already "refugees.". From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
She was, in the words of Notable American Women, “the best-known hotelkeeper in America.”. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Grossinger.] Reference
The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
"Let's see what happens with the rand and foremost with the problem of criminality", remarked a hotelkeeper there, touching on the sensitive point that the big cities like Johannesburg, Cape. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He said to the hotelkeeper that there was no need of announcing it to the boarders, but Dr. Hopkins said he would do it anyway, and for him to get Barnum out of the house and to a hospital, that he would ruin him. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
It is worth noting that this French hotelkeeper and the German baron in the adjoining hospital had both fought, though of course on opposite sides, in the great Franco-Prussian war of thirty years ago, and now they found themselves overwhelmed by another great war wave in one of the remotest and seemingly most inaccessible fastnesses of. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
That I'm some kind of hotelkeeper?. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
It was Kitty Carter, the daughter of the hotelkeeper at. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
The hotelkeeper had told him how to find it, and the name of the parson. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
I had an interview with the hotelkeeper himself, a ruffian of the name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Simpkins Plot] Reference
In short, he recommended the party to the special care of the hotelkeeper. From Wordnik.com. [Harrigan] Reference
Mimi tried hanging herself, finally instead married a hotelkeeper in Seefeld. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
They saw her leave an envelope with the hotelkeeper; they did not hear her instructions. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Valley] Reference
Many of these buildings were whitewashed, and one enterprising hotelkeeper had erected a brick addition to his log structure. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine An Autobiography]
While the men talked beside the woodpile, Sandy Braden, the hotelkeeper, drove up with his pacing horse and rubber-tired buggy. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
If in addition to a few bathrooms a Continental hotelkeeper has a decrepit elevator he makes more noise over it than we do over a. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
The Continental may be a born hotelkeeper, as has been frequently claimed for him; but the trouble is he usually has no hotel to keep. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
They summoned a hotelkeeper named Hanson under a search warrant, issued on an information in May, 85 miles east distant, sworn to at Beaver city. From Wordnik.com. [Kootenay Rockies - News] Reference
Tresa Trinchini, Daniel continued as a laborer, farmer, grocer, hotelkeeper and most pertinent to this entry, a land developer and real estate executive. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY - otsego county news, delaware county news, oneonta news, oneonta sports Home] Reference
There were three of them present, all of whom resided in Groveton -- Mr. Manning, the hotelkeeper; Mr. Bailey, a storekeeper, and Mr. Beane, the Groveton lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck] Reference
There are excellent sketches of people -- a courtly hotelkeeper in some God-forsaken hamlet, his self-respect triumphing over his wallow; a group of babbling Civil. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
There was a judge with a full-bottomed wig, a scarlet and ermine vesture, there was a jury of prosperous shopkeepers, retired half pay officers, a hotelkeeper or two, a journalist, an architect, and. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, “Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Backward Glance at Eighty]
Another interesting idiosyncrasy of the Italian hotelkeeper is that he invariably swears to you his town is the only honest town in Italy, but begs you to beware of the next town which, he assures you with his hand on the place where his heart would be if he had. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
With us the presence of a few bathtubs more or less creates no great amount of excitement -- nor does the mere sight of open plumbing particularly stir our people; whereas in England a hotelkeeper who has bathrooms on the premises advertises the fact on his stationery. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
This hotelkeeper might have been the cat's own brother with clothes on -- he had Plute's roving eye and his bristling whiskers and his sharp white teeth, and Plute's silent, stealthy tread, and his way of purring softly until he had won your confidence and then sticking his claw into you. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
A newspaper and had a brief time of prosperity, when I married the daughter of a hotelkeeper, and for the time was happy. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent House] Reference
The scientist’s paternal great-grandfather was a hotelkeeper in ritzy Lake Geneva, WI and married a banker’s daughter. From Wordnik.com. [James Watson And “Passing”] Reference
"If you were a Socialist," the hotelkeeper would say, "you would understand that the power which really governs the United States today is the Railroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
"If you were a Socialist," the hotelkeeper would say, "you would understand that the power which really governs the United States today is the Railroad Trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
Naturally they expected some difficulty in transferring their two trunks round by the road, where there had been nothing but a wilderness forty years ago; but their change of base was facilitated by the obliging hotelkeeper in the most friendly manner, and when he insisted on charging only four dollars for moving the trunks, the two friends said that, considering the wear and tear of the mountain involved, they did not see how he could afford to do it for such a sum, and they went away, as they said, well pleased. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
“Are you the hotelkeeper?”. From Wordnik.com. [Can you forgive her?] Reference
"So you've turned into a hotelkeeper," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
"Are you the hotelkeeper?". From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
“So you’ve turned into a hotelkeeper,” I said. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
Chadwick, Thomas, hotelkeeper, two sons and daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Some Reminiscences of old Victoria] Reference
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