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
However, in 2014 he abdicated, two years after it had emerged he had been elephant hunting in Botswana with Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, who had been his mistress, during an economic crisis in Spain.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Keaton plays that mistress, Mary Wilkie, and her depiction of the witty, wry, journalist with a robust social calendar and strong opinions that she never hesitates to express, is among her most seminal performances.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025
The ballet mistress Madame Giry, and others, usher the audience groups from room to room, as the narrative follows the spine of the original, although there is considerably less dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
“I am small, but, mistress, I am not harmless.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing mistress
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Excerpt 3)
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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