mistress of the household
Example Sentences
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She played inscrutable head games with the mistress of the household, my boyfriend’s mother, whom she had known since childhood.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2015
Blanche Yurka as the mistress of the household, becomes, at times, a tragic figure, notably at the end of Act II when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hadria couldn’t understand it; especially as the domestic life was arranged, one might almost say, with a special view to promoting musical talent in the mistress of the household.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
The child had kept her manners and her dignity too, under some provocation, while the mistress of the household was conscious that she had lost hers.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
Dr. Llewellyn will be here tomorrow for the weekend, and as I am to be mistress of the household it is more seemly that I preside at the head of the table.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
