These mistresses are all gentlewomen of the Nayre cast; and the nayres, besides being prohibited from marrying, must not attach themselves to any woman of a different rank.

Indeed, when a mistress is an early riser, it is almost certain that her house will be orderly and well-managed.

ROME REVISITED O sovereign Rome, still mistress of the heart, As of the world in thy majestic prime, Grand in thy ruins, peerless in thine art, Rich in the memories of a past sublime, Is thine the fault or mine that thou art changed, And that I tread the new Tiberian shore Convinced, alas!

The captain's mistress is his ship.

My mistress was Miss Annie Minton.

The first mistress to king Henry II. was Rosamond, daughter of Walter Clifford, Baron of Hereford.

And, mistress, Be this some comfort to your miseries, I'll have thin cheeks, ere you shall have wet eyes.

Between Raoul and Ghita there had been no reserves on the subject of parentage, and the former understood why his mistress was here, as well as the motive that brought her.

Eyes feast on nature, feast on art, and do not know where to dwell longest,unless it be on the splendid pagan, the mistress of all these splendors, and whose only religion is beauty.

* * My mistress then be knowledge and fair truth; So I enjoy all beauty and all youth!

The demon-lover (or more often, with sexes reversed, the fairy mistress) is a favorite theme of romance, taken from folk-lore, where it appears in many forms.

ROME REVISITED O sovereign Rome, still mistress of the heart, As of the world in thy majestic prime, Grand in thy ruins, peerless in thine art, Rich in the memories of a past sublime, Is thine the fault or mine that thou art changed, And that I tread the new Tiberian shore Convinced, alas!

And yet my mistress is the very best mistress that ever I see!"

You are i'the right: An old mistress, or servant, is an old tune; the pleasure on't is past, when we have once learned it.

This mistress was a professor of religion; her daughter who related the circumstance, was a fellow member of the Presbyterian church with the poor outraged slaveinstead of feeling indignation at this outrageous abuse of her brother in the church, she justified the deed, and said "he got just what he deserved."

We are both in Love: his Mistress is a lovely Fair, and mine a lovely Brown.

Our old mistress was a Mallory from Virginia.

The tavern is his palace and his belly is his god; a whore is his mistress and the devil is his master.

The first mistress of the Strozzi palace was Clarice Strozzi, née Clarice de' Medici, the daughter of Piero, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

The mistress is as great a slave to her servants, in some respects, as they are to her.

Another time, as I was dressing her head, she began to talk on a sudden of Medusa, and snakes, and men turned into stone, and maids that, if they were not watched, would let their mistresses be Gorgons.

Everybody hopes to get one of our protégées, because the mistress right away becomes his patroness.

Brave Mistress of your Art, is this the way, My Service and my Passion to repay?

The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties.

My mother's mistress was Mrs. Martha Christian.