Sentence examples for English mistress from inspiring English sources
Instead she referred to her invalid mother, her faithless father, and his English mistress.
The novelist A. S. Byatt, a schoolmate, recalls, "I used to talk to Katharine MacDonald, the English mistress who taught her.
Meanwhile, Karim's previously strait-laced father takes up with an English mistress and begins teaching vague Eastern platitudes to suburbanites hungry for spiritual learning — or at least looser-fitting clothing.
Letters editors were harried with correspondence from George Bunnerd, Shendar Bwra, A. Donis, Redbarn Wash, GBS Larking, Amelia Mackintosh, Horatia Ribbonson and the Reverend CW Stiggins JR, as well as from "the milkman", "an English mistress", "inveterate gambler" and "a novelist".
In Australia, the endearing Aboriginal child narrator comments on his English mistress's feeling of being overwhelmed in her new setting: "This land has a strange power".
He noted which Saxon tankards had belonged to English kings' mistresses; he also described a 1710s miniature portrait of a longhaired young man as "perhaps the finest piece of enamel in the world".
She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance; soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress.
I am especially fond of Nell Gwynne, named after the famous 17th century English actress and royal mistress.
The three paintings will be displayed together this summer with the x-rays that helped nail the new attributions: one revealed a completely different unfinished work under Titian's Mistress, so English Heritage may actually have acquired two new Titians.
By Nicholas Murray.St Martin's Press; 304 pages; $27.95.Little, Brown; 304 pages; £20 (paperback; £9.99 MOST people nowadays know of Andrew Marvell as a poet, the author indeed of one of the most famous love poems written in English, "To His Coy Mistress".
After all, Henry II, Henry IV, John of Gaunt, and other medieval penitents such as Jane Shore, mistress to English King Edward IV, Marquis Thomas Grey, and Baron William Hastings both high and low continued on to live long, successful social and political lives.
