Ruth added here and there such housewifely touches as only a woman can give.
"A Hero of Ticonderoga"
Rowland E. Robinson
It indicated a nature reposeful, not too gifted, housewifely, and clinging.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
He had her hand now for farewells, and perhaps, with the thought of those short six years had come also the thought that this slender figure in the housewifely blue linen, this exquisite little head, so trim and demure despite all its rebel tendrils of gold, this lovely face, still the face of a child, with a child's trusting, uplifted eyes, might have been his.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris