How To Use Mistress In A Sentence

She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad

He replied, “I know not; but thou art better able to judge, being acquainted with the ways of thy man, more by token that thou art one of the sharpest-witted of women and past mistress of devices such as devise that whereof fail the wise.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest. The Bertrams
I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
Taking her cue from some of MADONNA's more risque antics, it was pure raunch from the outset, which saw the star sporting a sexy circus mistress's uniform.
Why do they think they deserve the title mistress? Staar: Whose Transgressions Are Worse, Tiger's or the Women?
It was initiated, in part by Marta, Tomas's mistress and the local schoolteacher.
The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
I profess, mistress, your plottie is excellent, ever since I taught you to mix the spices in the right proportion.” Saint Ronan's Well
I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night. Isabelle
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
Her mistress, the lover of books and words, enjoyed the garden the most, sitting on the marble seat, admiring the green-blue-brown scenery with the simulated breeze stirring the bodhi leaves and crab-claw red heliconia. COG-WORK CAT • by Joyce Chng
And Lina, Sorrow, and Florens know that if their mistress dies, "three unmastered women out here, alone, belonging to no one, became wild game for anyone" (page 58). A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Questions
Mistress Helen has quick news," said I. "She has a maid yonder, Dol Beag's lass, and she brought the word frae The McBrides A Romance of Arran
Ha! you may ask -- he gave his mistress a potion, for the purpose of merely seducing her, and it turned out to be poison -- a _carabin_ like yourselves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832
A wardrobe mistress arrives with my armour. Times, Sunday Times
Kanako Ito, the highly talented violinist and concertmistress of the Kansas City Symphony, will perform Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” on a Symphony Classical Series performance Oct. 23-25. KansasCity.com: Front Page
She is bound to the rules and the choir, but not to the private recitation of the Divine Office; she can take part in chapters, except in those in which others are admitted to vows; she cannot be elected superior, mother-vicaress, mistress of novices, assistant, counsellor, or treasurer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Mistress Affery negatived each with a shake of her head. Little Dorrit
She's my wife and my mistress. The Sun
They'd met on the ferry, said Maisie, and this was later confirmed by the postmistress. SLEEP WHILE I SING
she was reportedly his mistress for many years
Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
Susan Swan is clearly the mistress of her material, and her narrative technique copes effortlessly with moving back and forth, between the journals of the past and the events of the present.
In the morning, my mistress sent to the overseer to give me a severe whipping, for she said the homony was not beat quite enough, though very good. Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time
When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war.
My passion for my mistress had something fierce about it, for all my life had been severely monachal. The French Immortals Series — Complete
To give her her due, the headmistress wasn't too keen on league tables herself and has spoken out against government prescriptiveness.
The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
On the contrary, it tends to treat them all with a headmistressy disdain. Times, Sunday Times
It was the only place that she would spend the night without moaning and whining for her absent mistress. Times, Sunday Times
Swisser put on her headmistressy spectacles and the two of them completed their bit of the forms.
About his personal life, he is now said to have six mistresses, including a female petitioner who had sought his help.
She was the wardrobe mistress. Times, Sunday Times
Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The headmistress was a tall gray-haired woman with a slight stoop that betrayed her age. Pendragon Before the War
He procured girls of 16 and 17 to be mistresses for his influential friends.
After to the Roadhouse, and particularly for those who didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t drink, the postmistress was the next best contact point for the Park. A Grave Denied
And there was snod Mistress Jeanie, forgetting her spotless gown and kneeling in the snow. Greyfriars Bobby
Sir Bryan received his clubs with the emotion of a lover reunited with his long-absent mistress.
He's disaccustomed to travelling by t 'railway, an' he'll be sure to want his rale mistress an 'his friend Learoyd, so ye'll make allowance for his feelings at fost.' Soldiers Three
The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena The English Novel
He proceeded to unpin his mistress, did her frontways and backways and satisfied her as best he could. How to Add Spice to Your Content
Leaving your state for 5 days without informing your staff of your whereabouts and using taxpayer money for a trip that conveniently is to the same place where your mistress lives is a public matter! Meghan McCain: Sanford affair is 'private matter'
At Oxford he went in for scenes of dissipation, at Wilson's he was unruly, in Naples he had a mistress.
Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress. Times, Sunday Times
As was the manner of his time, his relations with his innumerable mistresses were almost universally cordial, even when disembarrassing himself of them.
Or was I the only one dying to see what Den's mistress Kate did with her barnet after Chrissie, the woman scorned, hacked off her hair.
We also reveal today a shocking incident which took place last week, when an eight-year-old boy at a Glasgow primary school assaulted his headmistress so severely she required hospitalisation.
Before that, I was the mistress of a married man for three years. Times, Sunday Times
We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
He had big-name friends, acquaintances, mistresses and more book deals waiting.
But, O my mistress, the wonder is how thy dream came to be thus depicted, for, wert thou minded to set it forth in painture, thou hadst not availed to portray it. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I feel like the naughty schoolboy who's been called to the headmistress's office.
These were big airy beds, adorned with many-colored quilts, and hung with beautiful curtains, showing the skill of the mistress of the house.
Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
As the only one of the white lady volunteers who spoke the language of the Chinese inmates, Pearl heard atrocious accounts of physical and mental abuse, violence, torture, starvation, and rape inflicted on girls thrown out or sold by their families into forced labor, working in brothels or as domestic slaves terrorized by the mistress of the household and passed from hand to hand by the master, his sons, and his menservants. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
In this figure of the _Crosse-couple_ we wrate for a forlorne louer complaining of his mistresse crueltie these verses among other. The Arte of English Poesie
Hoot toot, Mistress Findlay," interposed Malcolm, as his grandfather strode from the door; "ye maunna forget 'at he's auld an' blin '; an' a 'heelan' fowk's some kittle (touchy) about their legs. Malcolm
Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise: The Life of Marie de Medicis
_I know no mistress; out upon thy mistress_ Steevens conj. The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
She was the queen, the mistress of the house, cool and confident, beautiful and elegant.
Here, it could almost stand for the psychological distance between servant and mistress.
They depart from Ghent — Our Hero engages in a Political Dispute with his Mistress, whom he offends, and pacifies with Submission — He practises an Expedient to detain the Carriage at Alost, and confirms the Priest in his Interest. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
When he came, Mistress Marian was standing i 'th' great door o 'th' castle, in her hawking gown o 'green velure cloth laced all with silver cord; her plumed hat was on her curls, and her hawk, Beryl, on her fist. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
Burmese men here boast of taking Hui mistresses and wives.
tay" over which the three had been chatting, as is the way of our domestics at such times and places, -- she had reason to know the mistress of the house did not well approve of her, or of these frequent visitations. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest
She really doesn't like me at all, thinks that by being Nigel's mistress I was going to somehow ensnare her husband. TICKLED PINK
Kelly draws up a large, impressive, even diverse, cast of Irish cops and gunrunners, Italian mobsters and mistresses, Russian immigrants and killers, saints and scoundrels.
Like Petrarch, he sonnetted his mistress, both before and after death.
Let's get people into office who care ... not those who are just padding their pockets ... or seeking money to buy their mistresses and their hubbies new homes! Report: Senator tried to stop colleague's affair
The Prince had shocked society by living openly with his mistress.
He lived with his mistress at a luxurious estate in Normandy, to which he had added a grandiose belvedere.
Not by way of putting yourself upon the frivolous footing of being sans consequence, but by doing in some degree, the honors of the house and table, calling yourself en badinant le galopin d’ici, saying to the masters or mistress, ceci est de mon departement; je m’en charge; avouez, que je m’en acquitte a merveille. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
I know Mrs Havelock, the headmistress at my junior school didn't really approve of the word nice, but in this case it truly was.
The reason why only one mistress is to be kept, is, because if more than one be kept, a polygamical principle gains influence, which induces in a man a merely natural state, and thrusts him down into a sensual state, so much so that he cannot be elevated into a spiritual state, in which conjugial love must be; see n. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
If it is not a palimony claim, it is clearly an attempt to enforce a contract, the consideration for which is wifely services being rendered on the part of a mistress.
This second post also carried with it a position of assistant mistress and Cartwright soon found that she was being diverted from teaching by the administration.
Mistress Gwyn Ellen is a sweet-tempered, biddable girl and learns quickly but is a constant surprise to us. Exit the Actress
As Elizabeth's cofferer, Bedingfield despaired that he was unable to "avoyde by enye possible mene, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" on nefarious "enterprises" both to and from Elizabeth by virtue of his necessary daily contact with his mistress. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
He sniffed around in an attempt to find something to do, as his mistress was still asleep.
He divorced his wife when he was thirty-four and thereafter consorted with a series of mistresses.
No, not even the postmistress … Especially when she is on her bicycle" – that kind of thing. Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
A concubine was a kind of institutionalized mistress, acquired and discarded at will. WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA
“And you, too, are malapert, mistress!” said the Lady; The Abbot
The deputy headmistress , was sitting dead at her desk. Her glasses were still on.
Only after she heard this from two others did she herself believe it and accept her status as handmaiden, which is reflected in her statement to the angel: “I am running away from my mistress Sarai” (Gen. Rabbah 45: 7). Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.
The woman in the painting is the artist's mistress.
At the post office, Mrs Clarkson, the postmistress, told her: `There's a telegram come for Reeves. THE GOLDEN LION
Mistress Mabel, who did not often talk, found her tongue now, and used it too, denouncing in the strongest terms the doings of the Parliament. Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
According to the Headmistress, children place such a drain on the average family budget that boarding can actually be an economy.
Her eunuch came forward from the shadows to listen to his mistress, and if he was surprised, his expression betrayed nothing. Shadow Princess
In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
He is her lover; she is his mistress.
Until by the time they are forty, they have raging gout and big bellies and false teeth and baseborn mistresses spread halfway across England. Hero Come Back
The publican's aggressive stance towards the headmistress touched on deeper currents which were becoming condensed in the affair.
If you want to read it, it's a blogspot site, just backspace out ‘mistressmatisse’ in the window up there and type in ‘hatemalepost’.
Curious, the Mistress of Freeport diverted from her course to have a closer look.
At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
Sanford who confessed his mistress is his soul mate on a national TV Republicans react to Palin news
It soon becomes clear that Aurora is a mistress of misinformation.
At the end of the Recruitment, the Masters and Mistresses and I will decide which of you are qualified to be initiated into the League.
Clearly, something is terribly wrong in the Hobbey household, but neither Shardlake nor the reader can puzzle out what evil abides there, even after the half-mad mistress of the house cries out, You fool! Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England
People had judged her as a mistress in the stereotypical way.
Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work. The Living Present
It and its mistress vanished into the dark to her car and a little unknown nook somewhere. Somewhere East of Life
After this, the old woman presented me to Chrysis; who was very glad she had recover'd her mistress's treasure; and therefore hastening to her, she conducted me to a most pleasant retreat, deckt with all that nature cou'd produce to please the sight. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
The Prince had shocked society by living openly with his mistress.
Many sub postmasters and postmistresses have pulled out because the recent changes to the payment of welfare benefits have hacked away at their profit margins.
Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers.
We will do thee no upright, O my son, nor wrong thee in aught; but our object is that thou bend thy gracious steps with me to my mistress, to receive her answer and return in weal and safety: and thou shalt have a handsome present as one who bringeth good news. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Moreover, there are not wanting in these poems instances of the term signore, or lord, applied to the beloved lady; which is one of the many periphrastical expressions used by the Romance poets to indicate their mistress. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
And then she showed that her disrelish to cards was the effect of choice only; and that she was an easy mistress of every genteel game played with them. Clarissa Harlowe
He was certainly closely acquainted with her before her marriage and, according to three 16th-cent. accounts, confessed to the king that she had been his mistress and was not fit to be a royal consort.
And Lily's instinct for the winning side soon tempered her attitude to the new mistress.
`In requesting a separate account," he intoned, `I don't wish to impute criticism of the Mistress of Tachnadray. THE TARTAN RINGERS
And whether he die or live, it is necessary and behoveful that mistress Jane depart not from her into Medieval People
The report suggests a buy-out scheme for postmasters and postmistresses who would then have the option of becoming agents.
The sheltie gazed up at her mistress with anxious, darting eyes as if to prove the point. JUST BETWEEN US
Unfortunately, Sewing Mistress made me embroider them, so they look funny, for who ever saw sturdy slippers with bluebirds and flowers on them?
Elizabeth Lister has been the headmistress at Westgate Primary School, on Scarborough Road, for the past nine years or so.
Experience is the mistress of fools.
But nature could not long endure a pleasure that it so highly provoked without satisfying it: pursuing then its darling end, the battery recommenced with redoubled exertion; nor lay I inactive on my side, but encountering him with all the impetuosity of motion I was mistress of, the downy cloth of our meeting mount was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height; so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
I could recover myself into any composure for thinking, the maid came in with her mistress's service, and a small silver orringer of what she called a bridal posset, and desired me to eat it as I went to bed, which consequently I did, and felt immediately a heat, a fire run like a hue-and-cry through every part of my body; I burnt, I glowed, and wanted even little of wishing for any man. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
It may be realized that in spite of its air of being impossible to "overtake" -- I must, in this connection, continue to quote its mistress -- there was an attractiveness about the dwelling of the The Imperialist
She was the mistress of a king and caused him to lose his kingdom.
If I hadn't become a successful actor I'd have been a wardrobe mistress, without a doubt.
The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
What was the day like for the mistress of the household? Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
I bought her a house in Fiesole, and I installed her there as my mistress, where she is to this day. The Poet Prince
The revelation comes one day after Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign's former mistress, told Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston that Ensign paid Cynthia Hampton, who was also an employee of Ensign's political action committee and re-election campaign, more than $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for Ensign's political operation. Statement: Senator's parents 'made gifts' to mistress's family
Marie Touchet (mistress of Charles IX of France) was anagrammatized by Henry IV as "Je charme tout. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
She was mistress of the wry, speaking glance. Times, Sunday Times
May it please your good Lordship, That albeit we attend here on my Lady Elizabeth's Grace, our Mistress ... we do not forget our most bounden Duty, nor yet our Readiness in Words and Deeds to serve her Highness [Queen Mary] by all the Ways and Means that may stand in Us, both from her Grace, our Mistress, and of our own Parts also .. .166 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
A wardrobe mistress arrives with my armour. Times, Sunday Times
The postmistress called for security firms to be made responsible for safe keys to try and stem the rising tide of robberies.
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
To save herself from worse she becomes the mistress of the judge. The Times Literary Supplement
Stone, a 67-year-old man of low intelligence, partially deaf and almost blind, lived in a house with his mistress Dobinson, who was ineffectual and inadequate, and Stone's subnormal son.
There'll be some who feel that Lodge still lets his man off lightly, and that the outward amenability of Wells's wife Jane as he takes each new mistress fails to register the price she paid. A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review
Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665
Suddenly the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wafted in, dressed in black and trailing a cloud of cologne and his mistress, Daphne Guinness, who was wearing a revealing black cat suit and heelless Alexander McQueen platform shoes... Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Face of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him.
Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress. Times, Sunday Times
That's according to the author of said book, Susie Dent, dictionary mistress on Countdown and general lexicographical bod referred to in a report in today's Guardian.
When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
Ferriani thus reports such a case in the words of the young man's mistress: "Certainly he is a strange, maddish youth, though he is fond of me and spends money on me when he has any. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
He was unwontedly stirred both by the Big House and by the Little Lady who was its mistress. CHAPTER XI
If the master of an estate or the mistress of an estate has defaulted on the tax of the estate and a stranger has borne it, for three years the owner may not be evicted.
And I (continued Ischomachus) was struck with admiration at her answer, and replied: “Think you, my wife, it is through some such traits of forethought seen in their mistress-leader that the hearts of bees are won, and they are so loyally affectioned towards her that, if ever she abandon her hive, not one of them will dream of being left behind; 149 but one and all must follow her.” Oeconomicus
Mistress: give me a Man can feed and clothe me, as well as hug and all to bekiss me, and tho his Sword be not so good as yours, his Bond's worth a thousand Captains. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
His wife, a former headmistress turned education policy adviser, was also absent. Times, Sunday Times
Nay, Mistress Priscilla, I was not dubbed cooper until I was a se'nnight old, or so. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
If you wish to preserve his life, desist from the assault, and depart in peace; and bear this message to the Countess your mistress: – the Baron Malcolm will accept no other ransom for the life and the liberty of the Earl, than her beauteous daughter, whom he now sues to become his wife. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
Likewise past postmistresses were also remembered with affection.
The sheltie gazed up at her mistress with anxious, darting eyes as if to prove the point. JUST BETWEEN US
This sissy would like to confess their long term sissiness whilst wearing her frilly white trimmed panties and grey dress to Mistress Cassie. We Blog A Lot
He wanted to avoid a messy divorce and to carry on affairs with mistresses.
In 1790s Gotham, most children were educated within an informal system of ‘pay schools’ presided over by independent schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.
She lets him secretly witness her mistress transform herself into an owl; but when Lucius tries the spell on himself, by some calamitous mischance he is changed into an ass.
The overpaid millionaires and their spouses, gay lovers, dates and/or mistresses, no longer even pretended to turn away.
Henry, when the little girl held the geraniums up to him, observed, that the back of her hand was bruised and black; he asked her how she had hurt herself, and she replied innocently, "that she had not hurt _herself_, but that her schoolmistress was a very _strict_ woman. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
'en badinant le galopin d'ici', saying to the masters or mistress, 'ceci est de mon departement; je m'en charge; avouez, que je m'en acquitte a merveille.' Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
In contrast, the sinister aspect of the Mistress (i.e. Baphomet) was celebrated in the Autumn and was linked to the rising of Arcturus, Arcturus itself being related to the sinister male aspect (second sphere of the septenary), later identified with Lucifer/Satan. The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7
I think "acting inappropriately" is their way of saying "grabbing the Mistress of Ceremonies's boob. October 7th, 2006
We have returned from fighting for your well-being, mistress, and are in no mood for silly games.
Although mistresses sometimes taught their female slaves specific skills, slave women themselves normally transmitted those skills from one generation to the next.
A spokesman for Suffolk Police said: ‘The men demanded money from the postmistress while threatening her with what appeared to be a shotgun, a baseball bat and a crowbar.’
On the right of the fire was a razeed rocking-chair, evidently the peculiar property of the mistress of the mansion, and three blocks of pine log, sawn off smoothly, and made to serve for seats. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Othello, the Moore of Venice
She was the wardrobe mistress. Times, Sunday Times
On Sundays the mistress would give him a gingerbread or a cracknel, and amuse herself with his baby prattle. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The other woman is the dead man 's mistress, married and voracious. Times, Sunday Times
And she stored up in her heart the word of wisdom, and straightway rose from her couch and went through the palace; and her handmaids came hasting together, eagerly tending their mistress. The Argonautica
There are some men to whom schoolcraft is a mistress. Craftsmanship in Teaching
On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter. The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
In full command of this alternate universe are the Maestros and Mistresses of the mixing tables.
Julia served as postmistress at the old post office in Binghamstown for all of her working life, until her retirement some years ago.
Even Cousin Kate, the postmistress, looked pretty good by firelight.
However, she refused to be the mistress of the king.
Paul Reynolds, their crime correspondent filed a report at lunchtime about the arrest of the suspect and the mistress.
In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
He is largely oblivious to the fact that he has caused her decline, and even excuses himself from her deathbed to have a final meeting with his mistress at the quayside.
Exhaling good old inland American Anglophobia, he mocks "those periwigged lords of London, who wore their laces and took their snuff and kept their mistresses" and lent their own names to Bedford, Halifax, Pelham and the like. A Long Way From Dullsville
Miss Fritton is headmistress of St Trinian's, where her unorthodox doctrine and free expression has brought her a collection of very uninhibited pupils.
That night, when my drunken master ran into the kitchen with a rageful look on his face, my mistress turned in surprise. Peeling Onions
She cheats, and the headmistress says she will have to be suspended! Times, Sunday Times

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