Mercer House was the envy of house-proud Savannah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

I don't see how you can be so patient with his criticisms: we all know you are house-proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

      I suppose we were what people call a house-proud family, even though we had few amenities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

The house-proud Harvester is similarly sex-deprived, but he goes beyond private self-denial to public crusading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catacomb Efreet] Reference

Another bizarre, house-proud character who was about to be consigned, along with Margaret, to the further reaches of his memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

The lodge itself was fairly new and very tidy and tenanted by someone sufficiently house-proud to have starched the white curtains into crispness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moor]

As representative of perhaps the most house-proud nation on earth, she shuddered and, for the first time in their short acquaintance, lost her amiable expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

Caroline: 'you are what you call house-proud; you like to have everything handsome about you: sometimes you look as if you were almost too proud to take your wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

As she also in­sisted that her mother was too house-proud to leave her bath dirty, that left Wednesday as the only day for Howard's hairs to drop in "accidentally.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Disordered Minds]

"Hardly house-proud, are they?" commented Moon - glum looking around him with distaste and glancing at brooding Gutheran who was seemingly oblivious of their presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bane of The Black Sword]

When her praise was anxiously sought, she observed that it was undesirable to be careless in one's housekeeping, but less disagreeable than to be fussy and house-proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Down East they call this or that woman 'house-proud.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and a Woman] Reference

So being disciplined and not too house-proud is important!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference

We lived in a terrace house and I remember my mother Andrea was very house-proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Constance was house-proud; house-pride had slumbered within her; now it blazed forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

In contrast, house-proud over 55s air their dirty laundry on average three times a month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The house-proud equate the presence of insects with the stigma of keeping an unclean domicile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

The winner will also receive a year's supply of Spontex goodies to help her continue with her house-proud antics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference

I get the whole "cleaning is therapeutic" thing, my more house-proud friends have been trying to tell me for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compulsive Confessor] Reference

Generally when building a model railway with the kids help, ensure that any house-proud spouses are well out of the way!.    From Wordnik.com.  [EzineArticles] Reference

And that is good news for house-proud and green-fingered Britons who will get money off furniture, DIY products and gardening equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Express :: Feed] Reference

We talk of people being house-proud; he was city-proud, and it irked him to see historic squares and public places neglected or disfigured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857] Reference

She's paid to be house-proud: Gwen Thompson, executive director of the Mary Todd Lincoln house, can be excused for wanting to show off her home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

But the facts are that Mrs. Carlyle was a house-proud woman and took her pastime in domestic lustrations and upheavals, and that while Carlyle was in.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Or relative to the cost of adequate policing that might have allowed my step-mother to stay in her home after local neds took against her for the crimes of being old and house-proud?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Londoners are the most frowzy - almost a quarter of the capital's inhabitants opt for the four-monthly approach - while just eight per cent of house-proud people in Northern Ireland are the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

"And yet I'll wager Miss Linton was 'house-proud' in that 'Home for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Billabong] Reference

I didn’t see it coming (and uni friends are surprised to see it) but I have become an insatiable house-proud nutjob.    From Wordnik.com.  […house-warming parties « Sven’s guide to…] Reference

I couldn’t fathom how average women were spending 3 hours a day doing domestic chores, but then I have a cleaning lady and I’m clearly just not as house-proud as the average woman!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Grow Business » From the UK: British Entrepreneur Caroline Melville on 3 Challenges New Women Business Owners Face] Reference

I want you to be 'house-proud.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and a Woman] Reference

'Cancer risk' for house-proud women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

Is he house-proud?.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

'house-proud' as they call themselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference

Our mum she’s so house-proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAT-ATONIC - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference