Use mistress in a sentence
Sentences starting with mistress
- Mistress Kitty Fagan, who had kept her ears pretty wide open, carried them. [6]
- Mistress Henneleinlein just then came out whereas she had been helping Dame Giovanna to tend the sick grandmother. [10]
- Mistress Dolly was then as mischievous a little baggage as ever she proved afterwards. [9]
- Mistress Kitty began telling in an undertone of the meeting between Mr. Bradshaw and Miss Badlam, and of the arrangements she made for herself as the reporter of the occasion. [6]
- Mistress Ursula for sure knew not till then that Junker Kunz was in Alexandria, and so soon as she learnt it she began to question me. [10]
- Mistress Kitty accepted Mrs. Hopkins's hospitable offer, and presently began orienting herself, and getting ready to make herself agreeable. [6]
- Mistress Fagan, Irish, house-servant, opened the door, at which Nurse Byloe knocked softly, as she was in the habit of doing at the doors of those who sent for her. [6]
- Mistress Temple herself having arrived, he handed her the letter. [9]
- Mistress Felicity he had sent to an upper room in the care of her aunt. [11]
Sentences ending with mistress
- I've heard of you from my mistress. [11]
- The Flemish maid, who had opened the door, announced that a messenger was waiting outside with a letter which he could deliver only to the master or the mistress. [10]
- And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! [10]
- It was early when Mammy Easter brought the news paper to her mistress. [9]
- Perpetua awaited Orion's visit on the ground-floor, charged to announce him to Rufinus and not to her mistress. [10]
- Charmian did not venture to go there; a visit to Octavianus's former teacher would have been misinterpreted, and it was repugnant to her own delicacy of feeling to hold intercourse at this time with the foe and conqueror of her royal mistress. [10]
- The maid-servant had told the physician that her master had ridden out, but he would not be put off, and asked permission to see her mistress. [10]
- For the first time the officer's modest house echoed with the singing of its mistress. [10]
- She is in the service of the Princess Bent-Anat, and sleeps in her anteroom, and she must not be burnt with her mistress. [10]
- He had heard the last pitiful words of his mistress. [9]
Short sentences using mistress
- My mistress returned to Holland. [10]
- Why, in your room, mistress. [11]
- Hear me, little Mistress! [10]
- The Mistress dropped her teaspoon. [6]
- The Mistress caught her breath. [6]
- My poor mistress! [10]
- Mistress! [10]
- A mistress! [9]
Sentences containing mistress two or more times
- Yet the mistress was not moved to gratitude; for later, when the wife was troubled to meet her engagements, the mistress makes this entry in her diary: "Harriet sends her creditors here; nasty woman. [5]
- Your honour, it is not my mistress in the doorway, it is Mrs. Llyn; she is shorter than my mistress. [11]
- True, the cautious house-keeper, who expected everything good from Maria except the capacity of showing herself an able, clever mistress of the house, had charged Trautchen to warn her mistress against being cheated. [10]
- The Mistress and her escort brought up the rear,--I holding the reins, the Professor at my side, and Number Seven sitting with the Mistress. [6]
More example sentences with the word mistress in them
- You were dismissed your place by the mistress of this Manor. [11]
- Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
- Now go to your mistress, and carry to Katuti this letter which has arrived for her. [10]
- He called his young mistress by name, but she did not hear him. [9]
- In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay. [10]
- But what do you say to the nose of your mistress Nefert? [10]
- She is thirteen years younger than Cleopatra, but her mistress holds the first place in her heart also. [10]
- In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
- Madame Marie sat with the doctor beside the bed of her dear mistress, and in another room, George Fournel, with the Avocat, kept watch beside the body of the Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
- If you are willing, my royal mistress, we will greet him from the balcony of Berenike. [10]
- My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
- If his mistress, who had left him full of anxiety from the fear that her departure would deeply agitate the blind man, should learn how indifferently he had received it! [10]
- In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
- Mandeville and I were talking of the unknown people, one rainy night by the fire, while the Mistress was fitfully and interjectionally playing with the piano-keys in an improvising mood. [4]
- For now we were in London for London itself, to do shopping, to see sights, to be our own master and mistress, and to live as independent a life as we possibly could. [6]
- Through the greenhouses we marched, monarchs of all we surveyed, old Porphery, the gardener, presenting Mistress Dolly with a crown of orange blossoms, for which she thanked him with a pretty courtesy her governess had taught her. [9]
- The Mistress, as we call her, is expected to be always in her place. [6]
- As the summer waxed hot we went into the forest at the bidding of my uncle and aunt, who took great joy in seeing their favorite in right good heart and wondrous beauty, Mistress Giovanna having provided her with seemly and brave apparel. [10]
- The old man was rejoiced to see them, and told them at once that his old mistress had promised Herse to give Dada shelter if she should return to them. [10]
- Master Ulman Pernhart was married in a right sober fashion to fair Mistress Giovanna, and I remember to this day seeing them wed in Saint Laurence's Church. [10]
- The Mistress, who was interested in the school, undertook to be the matron of the party. [6]
- Her excellenza's mother was a Chevreaux, and my mistress spent the best years of her life with her mother's sister, who during the winter lived in Paris. [10]
- Before his mental vision rose the little mistress of the garden of Epicurus. [10]
- When the following verses were taken out of the urn, the Mistress asked me to hand the manuscript to the young Doctor to read. [6]
- Like a mistress upon whom we have lavished the days of our youth and the strength of our days, she has deceived us; she has stricken us while we slept. [11]
- Ann drew herself up with pride and hastily answered that if any one craved news of him he had best apply to Mistress Ursula Tetzel, inasmuch as she was ever wont to have a keen eye on her dear cousin. [10]
- It was weariful to wade through them, and when at last I reached the Im Hoff house Master Ulsenius called to me down the stairs: "Silence, Mistress Margery; there is worse weather in here than without doors! [10]
- He kindly motioned to them to keep silence, and asked what induced them to expect leisure time on that day, when, by the exertion of all their powers, they were to display their skill in the presence of their mistress and the Emperor. [10]
- Then she turned to the Queen with the entreaty: "Be calm, my royal mistress, be calm, I beseech you. [10]
- Lindy, faithful servant to the end, held the wasted hands of her mistress against the violence they would have done. [9]
- This Ursula was to speak, by reason that she was mistress of all such arts; likewise was she by birth the chiefest of us all, inasmuch as that her late departed mother was daughter to the great Reynmar, lord of Sulzbach. [10]
- It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. [5]
- My mistress began to make her preparations, and Susanna was a witness of her consultation with the marquis about whether she would keep or sell the Holland estates and castles. [10]
- He came straight to his father, giving only a nod to Mistress Felicity, who twisted her head in a demure little way, as though in mockery of his important manner. [11]
- I forthwith hastened to her, pressed the little packet which Mistress Grosz had given me into her hand--for I had it still hidden in my poke--and, whispered to her: "I had two of them, little Ann; make haste and pour them on the heap. [10]
- The greyhound seemed to feel for the troubles of his mistress, for he fawned upon her, as if to kiss her. [10]
- How was he to disclose to his mistress what threatened her? [10]
- He had expected to bring home a wife, and the house where she was to reign as mistress was razed to the ground. [10]
- Once he hurried to an afternoon party, and finding the mistress of the house alone, sat down and talked to her comfortably for an hour or two, not remembering his errand at all. [5]
- His ancestors from time immemorial have held the office he now fills, and he even supposes himself to be related to the extinct royal dynasty through the mistress of some one of the Lagides. [10]
- And all this time I was busily wooing Mistress Dolly; but she, little minx, would give me no satisfaction. [9]
- He moved not till I spoke to him; then he dried his wet eyes with his fur hood, and when I laid my hand on his shoulder he drew a deep breath, and said: "It has been a moving morning, Mistress Margery. [10]
- It was not till his mistress had repeated her orders that he hurried away. [10]
- Duluth is several thousand miles from the sea, and yet she is entitled to the proud name of Mistress of the Commercial Marine of the United States of America. [5]
- I have seen those, said the Mistress, who seem to prefer dried fruit to fresh; but I like the strawberry and the peach of each season, and for me the last is always the best. [4]
- Myrtle was at this time her own mistress as never before. [6]
- As mistress of this house it was your duty to press him to stay. [9]
- Troubled in conscience thereby, yet I did marry the twain gladly, for I think a worthier maid never lived than this same Mistress Guida Landresse de Landresse, of the ancient family of the de Mauprats. [11]
- Is it all there, Mistress Falkingham? [11]
- Relieved, she stroked the youth's curls and, ere his whispered explanation was ended, turned her back upon him and hurried into the lighted room to tell her mistress whom she had found outside. [10]
- Frau von Berndt, the youngest daughter of our beloved kinsman, Moritz von Oppenfeld, united to the elegance of a woman reared in a large city the cordiality of the mistress of a country home. [10]
- He knew that the will would most probably be found there, but was anxious to have the priest complete the consecration of his mistress undisturbed. [10]
- Now, full of the warmest confidence, he asked whether she would consent to rule as mistress of his home, the honour and ornament of his ancient name? [10]
- I secretly admitted the truth of his remark, but whenever I yielded to the impulse to write I felt as if I were being disloyal to the mistress to whom I had devoted all my physical and mental powers. [10]
- Whatever inward tremors the surprise of this visit had given her, she looked at him clearly and steadily, completely mistress of herself, as ever. [9]
- If she remains the same as before, spite of this admission--" Here he was interrupted by Anukis, who asked if her mistress would see Iras at this late hour. [10]
- Mandane hurried to the room in which her mistress generally spent the evening. [10]
- She had told the Princess then that she was the daughter of an exiled English gentleman, and was in the care of her aunt, one Mistress Falkingham, while her father was gone on an expedition to Italy. [11]
- A man pays the price one time or another: he draws his sword for his mistress and his king; both forget, but one's country remains--remains. [11]
- She had told the Pernharts what were the fears which had brought her into the town, so the chamber was presently cleared, and the master called away Mistress Giovanna after that my aunt had expressed her admiration of her rare charms. [10]
- So chained by the necks in gangs of twenty they marched to the city of Constantine, where Smith was delivered over to the mistress of the Bashaw, the young Charatza Tragabigzanda. [4]
- But inasmuch as the Mistress says nothing about her antecedents, we do not like to be too inquisitive. [6]
- She was become the mistress of Bellegarde. [9]
- The only reason the Mistress could give, when she rearranged her apartment, for hanging a picture in what seemed the most inappropriate place, was that it had never been there before. [4]
- The Mistress, at the meeting, I believe, "seconded the motion" several times, and is one of the Vice-Presidents; and this family honor makes me feel almost as if I were a president of something myself. [4]
- In Alphonsine's mistress, the Marquise de Leria, the almoner also possessed a willing tale-bearer. [10]
- Fran Maria Ortlieb, the invalid mistress of the house, rarely needed her services. [10]
- There they found the gardener and all the household, anxiously watching for the return of their belated mistress. [10]
- The rest of the company departed in due time, leaving him with the mistress, to whom he said: "There is no longer any question about it. [5]
- I see clearly that your mistress will be Cambyses' favorite wife, and will then forward your marriage, for she is very fond of you, and thinks no praise too high for your fidelity and skill. [10]
- It is certain that the Mistress did not write the poem. [6]
- Her mistress knew that something unusual must have happened to detain her so long from her post at Barine's side, and her appearance showed that she had been attending to important matters which had severely taxed her strength. [10]
- O my mistress, that I, too, should aid in darkening this hour! [10]
- She seemed taller than ever, and very beautiful in her veil and white satin gown and the diamonds Ham had given her; very much mistress of herself, quite a contrast to Ham, who made no secret of his elation. [9]
- If there were tears shed for her, they could not be bitter ones; for she had lived out her full measure of days, and gone--who could help fondly believing it?--to rejoin her beloved mistress. [6]
- He appeared to taunt her with her dishonor, he threatened exposure if she did not become again the mistress of his passion. [5]
- Upon a small tablet, which the wise Aisopion had intentionally delayed handing to her mistress until now, were the lines: "Archibius greets his sister Charmian. [10]
- Mathilde, with the sympathetic gift of her nation, shared the excitement of her mistress in this fete. [9]
- Force of habit still sent him to Gordon's Pride, but for days he would have nothing to say to the mistress of it, or she to him. [9]
- Even my voice sounded in the distance as I continued: "Will you be the mistress of Carvel Hall, Dorothy? [9]
- Your mistress will soon be queen, and then she will look out a handsome young husband for you. [10]
- His heart belonged solely to Katterle, but towards Eva he obeyed the old trait inherent in his nature, and clung with the same loyalty hitherto evinced for his master to her whom he now regarded as his future mistress. [10]
- They had long since resolved to share the fate of their royal mistress, whatever it might be. [10]
- Orion shrugged his shoulders, desired the woman to fetch her mistress, whose presence was now indispensable, and called to the treasurer: "Go with her, Nilus! [10]
- Three weeks later Shelley married his mistress. [5]
- My mistress, when she was young, knew how to love truly and faithfully, but she was shamefully deceived, and now rancor, not against an individual, but against life, has taken possession of her, and her noble loyalty has become tenacious adherence to bad wishes. [10]
- She was uncommitted, she was mistress of her own actions. [4]
- And what constraint she was forced to impose upon herself when, not hearing her cautious introductory question, he told her about Villagarcia, his peerless mistress, Doha Magdalena de Ulloa, and his musical success! [10]
- Humbly advancing as she took her seat at the large writing-table, he whispered: "And with all this, must my royal mistress devote time and thought to the destroyer of her peace. [10]
- So completely was she mistress of herself that presently he felt a certain faint resentment rising within him,--yet he asked himself why she should not have been. [9]
- The Mistress said she heard a bird that morning singing in the sun a spring song, it was a winter bird, but it sang. [4]
- But scarcely had she discovered that her mistress had fainted, when she heard the garden filling with people, a confused sound of men's and eunuchs' voices, and the notes of the trumpet used to summon the sentries. [10]
- I think we shall be comfortable; at least our rooms are very good, but there is no mistress of the house (she is very ill, and gone out into the country), and I am somewhat puzzled in managing about provisions; we board ourselves. [14]
- They had sung several tunes, when the Mistress rang for Avis,--for that is our Delilah's real name. [6]
- True, the Ortlieb servants were attached to their employers and sincerely sorry for the ill health of the mistress of the house, but for several years the lamentations and anxiety concerning her had been ceaseless. [10]
- She had never seemed to him so much a mistress of delicate satire and allusiveness. [11]
- She rose and saw Dunyasha her maid, who was evidently looking for her, and who stopped suddenly as if in alarm on seeing her mistress. [2]
- The mistress, too, sat somewhat alert, ready to rise at any instant and minister to the fancied want of this or that guest, forgetting the reposeful truth that people about a fireside will not have any wants if they are not suggested. [4]
- By the bed sat Betta on a low stool, asleep with the distaff in her lap; and neither she nor her mistress heeded the entrance of the visitors. [10]
- Katuti at the same time sent the dwarf to Nefert, to desire her to join her mother, in taking part in the procession, and in sacrificing in her father's tomb; but Nefert replied that she neither could nor would leave her royal friend and mistress. [10]
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