mistress
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In fact, he has two other wives and a mistress - who are all there dressed in black.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
She studied the craft in college, performed on a USO tour in Vietnam and worked as a costume mistress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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
“Rebecca was still mistress of Manderley,” the narrator worries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The two young men were thus somewhat shy with each other, but as for Yarrow she soon lost her awe of Ged, being in her own house and mistress of it.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
If I didn’t succumb to starvation, I would be here for a long time, with hateful mistresses and with Hattie ordering me about.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Vocabulary lists containing mistress
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