mistress
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"You chose to take your final flight in my arms on the evening of May 14, to join your mistress who loved you so much," she said.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.
From Salon ● May 13, 2026
The man explained that he had a problem - he wants to leave his British wife to live with his mistress.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
“Rebecca was still mistress of Manderley,” the narrator worries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
She should have stayed and showed Amala and Mama who was truly mistress here.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Descended from King Charles II and one of his mistresses, Richmond numbered among those aristocratic Whigs who dominated the British parliament in the 18th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Under Holinshed's assertion that Richard the Lionheart was "not very notorious," Milton added: "the booke of Provenzall poets numbers him in / the catalogue, telling of his poetrie, and his Provenzal / mistresses."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
So there was this constant contradiction in their lives, but ultimately they were not the mistresses of their own destinies.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
It told the story of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses who were wrongly convicted due to faulty software.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
My progress in all my subjects astounded the mistresses.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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