Sentence examples for mistress doing from inspiring English sources

For years, it was widely agreed that Britain's heir to the throne could not decently marry his mistress ("doing the decent thing", it used to be called, but times have changed).

The film is both bizarrely sophisticated (with Alida Valli as the mad surgeon's mistress, doing the kidnapping in a black leather coat) and ridiculously naïve (in its plot elements).

Chrysostom is domesticated, and, like his mistress, does not wander far from his quarters.

For Trouble, though devoted to his mistress, didn't much like other people and seized every opportunity to bite them.

Maybe the mistress didn't know how to run a house, being the daughter of a Philadelphia grocer and the granddaughter of a cabbage-shaver.

In this case, however, the dog was an effigy of a real companion of the subject, and according to contemporary accounts, it died of sorrow three days after its mistress did.

It's a relief that one current case -- involving children Thomas Jefferson may or may not have had with Sally Hemings, his slave and purported mistress -- does not have anyone dashing for shovels.

Here was a woman who was actively recruited by Missy (do we call her the Master now? The Mistress doesn't quite sit right) to hook up with the Doctor on the assumption that they would ruin each other's lives.

Mr. Zero, his harridan of a wife and his mousy would-be mistress do not remotely resemble the chipper, eager-to-please types you might associate with musical theater of the more populist and ingratiating kind, high schoolers triumphing over racism in Baltimore, say, or the merry gag-meisters of Mel Brooks or Monty Python.

I mean, what mistress doesn't aspire to the White House?

Sorry Jenny, but a mistress does not negate your marriage vows.