mistress
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He enrolled Morishita with a strict and formidable ballet mistress called Michiko Suwa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In fact, he has two other wives and a mistress - who are all there dressed in black.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Vibe: The more than century-old pool at the Annenberg Community Beach House was once part of the seaside mansion that William Randolph Hearst built for his mistress, actress Marion Davies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
"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
Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
The newspaper reported that four former detectives are interviewing persecuted postmasters and mistresses, trying to learn about how they were treated by the Post Office employees who built cases against them.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
My progress in all my subjects astounded the mistresses.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Vocabulary lists containing mistress
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Excerpt 3)
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