landlady
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The landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three to four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down", jurors heard.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Among them is Miss Connulty, a respected landlady, whose tragic past prompts her to warn Ellie that “love was a madness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
He said Martin and Wadley had "become friends very slowly" after his release from prison when she was the landlady of the Hare and Hounds pub in Wisbech.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
When I got on the coach the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw him talking with the landlady.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"It's not just people in the music industry, this was also happening to barmaids, pub landladies and people's mums," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The demonstration was organised by two landladies in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and was attended by people of all ages.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
Even picture postcards, Igo relates in one of many humorous and eye-opening vignettes, came under fire for enabling, one magazine’s editors wrote, “servants and landladies to have the full benefit of our private matters.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
The landladies run their fingers along the tops of wardrobes, tutting, while the men argue about their Visit Britain accreditation, mouths full of tepid bacon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that there is something psychic about landladies.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
