my royal mistress I loved, I loved her true!

No one could tell whose they were, perhaps a negro's, perhaps the little mistress of the water-wheel.

But it would have taken greater persuasion than his to induce the boy to worship other than with his beloved mistress, and under her kind eyes he read many volumes of the works of the famous British divines of the last age.

This was a young woman about twenty, a very distant relation, with "no claim," everybody said, upon her kind mistress and friend,the daughter of a distant cousin.

"O sweet mistress," quoth he, "now glory be to the kind Saint Martin that I do see thee again hale and well.

O sole mistress of all my thoughts!

let me tell you, my dear, that were you once your own absolute and independent mistress, I should be tempted, notwithstanding all I have written, to wish you to be the wife of any man in the world, rather than the wife either of Lovelace or of Solmes.

"Ah lovely mistress of my soul," cried he, "thou little regardest the anguish that must for ever be an inmate of this breast!

"So now will I guide thee back to thine own fair duchy, gentle mistress, for I do tell thee here in Pentavalon shall be woeful days anon.

It had been a little hard to return so large a check, but the girl's policy was not to appear before Aunt Jane as a poor relation, but rather as a young lady fitted by social education and position to become a gracious mistress of Elmhurst.

The law may be, as Judge Holmes has called it, "a jealous mistress," but in the case of Tutt it was not nearly so jealous as his wife.

He had no wife, but kept a colored mistress in a house situated on a gore of land between the plantation and that of Mr. Goldsby.

He had passed a night so much to his satisfaction, that he expressed no displeasure with the old lady on account of her fraud; his love was transferred to Elfleda; she became his favourite mistress; and maintained her ascendant over him till his marriage with Elfrida

By the time we had embarked the tints of the sunset had vanished, a moon nearly full rode undisputed mistress in the cloudless sky, and we cut our way to our ship through the ripple that was dancing and sparkling in her beams.

he asked and, laughing, passed into the other room, where half a dozen women grouped themselves around the imperial mistress.

As compared with the assistant mistress in a secondary school, her lot is not altogether unenviable.

But remembering his errand, he quickly assumed a graver air, and endeavored to still the resentment of his fickle mistress by a more respectful manner.

de Marie Barrère-Affre) (A) CATHER, WILLA The fortunate mistress.

To lose a heavy wager is provoking enoughbut to lose a pretty mistress is the devil.

The slave never can do this as long as he is a slave; whilst he is a "chattel personal" he can own no property; but the time is to come when every man is to sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree, and no domineering driver, or irresponsible master, or irascible mistress, shall make him afraid of the chain or the whip.

Thanks, sacred mistress.

[5408]Nec pulchrae effigies, haec Cypridis aut Stratonices; 'tis not Venus' picture that, nor the Spanish infanta's, as you suppose (good sir), no princess, or king's daughter: no, no, but his divine mistress, forsooth, his dainty Dulcinia, his dear Antiphila, to whose service he is wholly consecrate, whom he alone adores.

Thou woful son of such a famous man, Unsheathe thy sword, conduct these warlike men To Rome, unhappy mistress of our harms:

Even the servants shared in the general satisfaction; for though, under Tira's vigorous rule, no task or duty could be safely shunned or slighted, she proved a kind and even an indulgent mistress to those who showed themselves worthy of her favor.

You are going to possess in one and the same person, the most estimable friend and a most charming mistress.