“Where have you been? You've been out gallivanting around with that mistress of yours, haven't you?”

“The mistress of the school has been working hard, and with success. She is intelligent and persevering as a teacher, and kind and attentive to the children.”

“She was appointed as a mistress in charge of a hostel for boarders.”

“That woman and a string of mistresses describe him as a charmer but also a manipulator with a propensity to control weaker-willed people.”

“Australian mistresses therefore were generally required to compromise on what they imagined to be superior English standards of domestic service.”

“The neoterics had written poems to their mistresses as if they were goddesses.”