master of the house

Papa "has the right as master of the house to have the final word at home," while Mama "must know the way to make a proper home, a quiet home, a kosher home," and "must raise a family and run the home, so papa's free to read the holy book."

How could the man who drove a golden chariot across the kingdoms of Ardestan, who laughs like a lion laughs—friend of the highest emirs and lowest dervishes, poet of his own religion, and master of the house with the birds in the walls—how could he ever travel to the real world of Edmond, Oklahoma?

“You don’t know the gentlemen here? You have not exchanged a syllable with one of them? Will you say that of the master of the house!”

The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her—that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.

She wished, she feared that the master of the house might be amongst them; and whether she wished or feared it most, she could scarcely determine.