Sentence examples for rich mistress from inspiring English sources

Adrienne Rich, mistress of the long unrhymed meditation, has rediscovered rhyme's riches; Carol Ann Duffy explores all its subtle intimacies; Tony Harrison is one of the world's great rhymesters, unafraid of doggerel.

The boy finds a rich mistress, and while picnicking with her and their friends in the country pretends not to see his mother working in the fields.

Like my mother, who entertained the burning hope that that nice guy from Santa Barbara, the one who'd awakened her with a cocktail shaker full of brandy Alexanders, would marry her and make her the rich mistress of a hacienda on the coast — like Mom, I'd expected Sally to make me handsome, popular, normal.

Like my mother, who entertained the burning hope that that nice guy from Santa Barbara, the one who'd awakened her with a cocktail shaker full of brandy Alexanders, would marry her and make her the rich mistress of a hacienda on the coast like Mom, I'd expected Sally to make me handsome, popular, normal.

"My theory is that the proprietress is a rich man's mistress.

Between them, Hawkes and Selwyn combine to hint at a darker, loveless world beneath this tale of a rich man's mistress who finds true love with a younger man whom she cannot allow herself to marry.

The first and most famous of these was "A Harlot's Progress," in which six paintings portray the journey of a fictional country girl, Moll Hackabout, from her arrival in London to her experiences as a rich man's mistress to her time as a prostitute to her death from venereal disease.

Lautrec's "anarchism," advertised in the subtitle, turns out to consist of this: "an oblique view of the world that saw the joke in the situation where a rich man's mistress is brought before a court to help accuse the army of letting him die, a point far more telling than simply caricaturing the attendant lawyers would have been".

Bored by the routines expected of the rich man's mistress she took to modelling for Schiaparelli and Hartnell, pining for the bohemian life while acknowledging that whatever society she fell into would always fall short of her expectations of it.

Zola retreated there to write (and gave his heroine Nana, an actress turned rich-man's mistress, a 17th Arrondissement address).

Another added: " I thought it was where rich men parked ex-mistresses, old ladies with dogs".