Sentence examples for mistress over from inspiring English sources

In objective reality, it shows a crumbling solicitor, Bill Maitland, losing his staff, his clients, his long-suffering wife and his mistress over 24 hours.

The book was originally conceived as a museum compendium of everyday objects —mementos that the narrator purloins from his former mistress over a series of years, from an earring to the charred ends of the cigarettes she smokes.

Mr. Ely still suffers from an injury he incurred while carrying a poodle to its mistress over icy front steps in Washington When the inevitable occurred, and Mr. Ely wiped out, he threw the dog to his employer before falling hard on his backside.

Morris's audacity was apparent too in the endless pranks his friends recounted: on election night a few years ago, the Jackson sportswriter Rick Cleveland remembered, Morris called the headquarters of the onetime Ku Klux Klan grand dragon David Duke, who was running for governor in Louisiana, and instructed a compliant receptionist to page Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, over the loudspeaker.

After the FBI surveillance of General David Petraeus's correspondence with his mistress over Gmail sparked a full-blown scandal, the public got a lot more interested in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which sets rules for government spying.

This can be likened to a spouse who promises allegiance to protecting his mistress over the responsibility of his commitment to his spouse.

The first half of "Away" is a vivid immigrant tale, and Bloom (the author of a previous novel and two collections of short stories) nicely captures Lillian's everyday struggles — from battling that stubborn "v" in her English ("won't, not von't") to being a mistress twice over, scratching and clawing for a living she's not sure is worth it.

The wife of the man is of course at least 30 years younger and stunningly beautiful and yet still doesn't blink an eye when his mistress comes over for a chat.

The story follows the professor's wife and student-mistress over several decades, through the wife's later love affair and the mistress's later marriages, and closes with the professor's grown son — who as a child found a letter about the affair — making a movie that dramatizes his father's death.

When they get to class, she sees that Meredith "Center Stage's" Jody (Byron's former mistress) has taken over for her American History teacher who went on maternity leave.

It was the year of the British abdication crisis, when Edward VIII chose his American mistress, Wallis Simpson, over the British throne.