mistress

Example Sentences

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After his father’s death, Mr. Junod goes on a sort of genealogical quest, excavating Lou’s double and triple lives—mistresses, deceptions, suspicious deaths, ugly secrets—and more distant family history.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I am small, but, mistress, I am not harmless.”

From Literature

The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.

From The Wall Street Journal

With a brief demonstration, the wardrobe mistress showed Penelope how to stitch fresh feathers to the bare spots.

From Literature

There was little chance that the spoiled young mistress of Ashton Place would become a benefactor to Swanburne—or Swansong, as she sometimes glibly called the school.

From Literature