innkeeper
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“I believe everything out of the common,” says the innkeeper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
“Perhaps Jack the boarder had seeded his own rumors,” the innkeeper observes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Audience members also got a glimpse of Olivia Colman as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka's mother.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2023
The later show, which featured Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper, ended with him waking up in Chicago next to his on-screen wife from “The Bob Newhart Show,” revealing the second series to be dream.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Like every child of an innkeeper, Malcolm had to work around the tavern, washing dishes and glasses, carrying plates of food or tankards of beer, retrieving them when they were empty.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
For a number of years, the marathon included both a racing and touring division and featured refueling stops with delectable fare provided by local innkeepers and restaurateurs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
A couple in upstate New York became impromptu innkeepers for South Korean tourists over the weekend after the visitors became stranded in an intense blizzard.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
A bed-and-breakfast, with a working lighthouse, has openings for two skilled innkeepers who can cook, clean and operate a ferry boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Most of the masks in the game are acquired through earning badges by performing tasks for some of the people Sable meets along her journey — innkeepers, machinists, etc.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
“Kote, sir,” Kote replied in an indulgent tone that mothers use on children and innkeepers use on drunks.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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