Sentence examples for To mistress from inspiring English sources
noun
A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
- She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses.
All American literature, said the modern poet John Berryman, pays "homage to Mistress Bradstreet".
She belonged to the line in American poetry that may be traced back through Robert Frost to Mistress Bradstreet.
He returns to Mistress, and effects a talking cure: he is asked, "Am I dying?" and answers, "No.
Comic figures abound, notably the Welsh captain, Fluellen, and some of Henry's former companions, notably Nym, Bardolph, and Pistol, who is now married to Mistress Quickly.
But when he tries to transfer his financial and emotional dependency from wife to mistress, Charlie discovers that Clea is not the moronic starlet she at first appears to be: she knows a loser when she sleeps with one.
He claims that he is the only tycoon with interests in every stage of production from "mine to mistress" (a canard in the industry holds that men buy more diamonds for their mistresses than for their wives).
Such characters ran the gamut from devious charlatans to saintly wives to scheming mistresses to embattled priests to demonic spirits.
3. "Maid walking up to her mistress to ask after her mother – the presumption of the girl!
As he had no heirs, he left the residue of the Condé inheritance (after splendid bequests to his mistress) to Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale.
But a search on Baidu, a Chinese search engine, yields pages of ads and blogs that link back to mistress-dispelling companies based in cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou.
However, regardless of what Cohen agreed to in a plea bargain, hush-money payments to mistresses are not really campaign expenditures.
