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.

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

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 sole mistress of all my thoughts!

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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 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

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

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

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.

XXI AT the factory, in her luxurious house on the quay, where she had long reigned as sovereign mistress, Constance for twelve years already had been waiting for destiny, remaining rigid and stubborn amid the continual crumbling of her life and hopes.

He has found in what he calls science an endless source of diversion, he betrays himself everywhere as a man of intense intellectual curiosity in every direction, and yet withal so little concerned with the roots of things, so easily satisfied with a little plausible coherence in a theory, as not to have found truth an apparently stern or exacting mistress, not to have felt the anguish of any deep mental conflict.

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.

By the exertion of all her powers and her force she had made of herself an exceptionally efficient mistress.

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

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

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.