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"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

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

In 1903, she and her friend Dorelia McNeill, who was also Augustus's mistress, returned to France via Bordeaux with the intention of walking all the way to Rome.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

“Rebecca was still mistress of Manderley,” the narrator worries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

“Well, and Wang Lung, the farmer, what?” retorted the gateman, who was polite to none except the rich friends of his master and mistress.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

We've been hearing about the unexplained shortfalls sub-postmasters and mistresses were experiencing - but what actually went wrong with the Horizon IT system?

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 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

"I should not mind it, for it is a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land. And the witch-woman is not the best of mistresses...."

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman