When later on they go out to teach they are themselves taught by the social surroundings of the Households into which they enter to still more dislike the old-fashioned ways of agriculture.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
In times of pressure Households were reduced, servants dismissed, horses sold, carriages suppressed.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
If the family tie is seriously relaxed in America, it seems an odd coincidence that I should in a single month have chanced upon two Households where it is seen in notable perfection, to say nothing of many others in which it is at least as binding as in the average English home.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer