obeyed

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I have a ghost door in my own master bathroom that wants to close on its own, and She Who Must Be Obeyed has let me know that it must be fixed.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

In an earlier day, writer John Mortimer delightfully appropriated the term, She Who Must Be Obeyed, to describe this sort of relationship in Rumpole of the Bailey.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2014

If Michele were my daughter, I�d have serious words with She Who Must Be Obeyed, because I'm pretty sure we don�t have any Asian ancestry.

From Time Magazine Archive

By sea, on hill, by wood and lake They called to arms for Ráma's sake, As each with terror in his breast Obeyed his awful king's behest.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Who, of all the earth, Obeyed like to me?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean