mistress

Instead of shedding tears or vowing revenge, we hear the protagonist in the song begging the mistress who holds the power to relinquish it.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

He enrolled Morishita with a strict and formidable ballet mistress called Michiko Suwa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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

It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

The rest of the horses follow, once again grouped by color, crowding each other to stay close to their mistress.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

A dramatisation of the long-running legal controversy with hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses wrongly accused of stealing from the Post Office.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

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

Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead