Sentences with phrase «mistress of the house»

After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill, and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

«To my dearest Katherine Luther, mistress of the house,..., Wittenberg: Personal.

Katie must have known very well the anguish and misery that lay behind the words, understood how her husband was making the greatest gesture he could of protest against a life which had become finally too burdensome: «To my kind and dear mistress of the house, Luther's Katherine von Rora, a preacher, a brewer, a gardener, and whatever also she is capable of doing.

Something that might be worn by the ghost mistress of the house, shrouded in with layers of black lace.

It's 1945 on a small isle off Britain, and the brittle mistress of the house (Nicole Kidman) wakes screaming.

«Sir, I am Lady Beatrice O'Brien, mistress of this house.

Not exact matches

The will was indeed master in its own house, just as a brothel mistress is mistress in the brothel, one of a string of abusive Lutheran epithets.

By many accounts the Kennedy White House was a hotbed of extramarital sexual activity, and former mistresses write that Kennedy's back pain impacted the experience.

Saturdays after - party costume ball across the street at the Ramada continued the festivities with an adult costume contest, performance art by the Pickled Brothers Circus, & Chump Change Variety Show, dance routines by Cleveland's masked mistresses, The Monster Dolls, a concert by Mummula, music by DJ Joel, burlesque routines fit for a house of dead things and a «king.»

Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House, takes the House approval of the thirteenth amendment to his maid - mistress.

A minute before, her character Deanna was dropping off daughter Maddie (Molly Gordon) at a sorority house for her senior year of college when Deanna's husband of 23 years, Dan (Matt Walsh), announced he wants a divorce to marry his mistress (Julie Bowen).

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We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year, like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.

«Mistress Sarah, you must amuse our patient here sometime with tales of how you manage to stay aloft at night on your broom,» said the lady of the house with a bemused smile.

The fact that the purloined possession was the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend has compelled him to run away - from his mistress, his home, his wife; from whatever remains of his impulse to paint; and from a tragedy that has long haunted him - and to sequester himself in the house where he was born.

From the mistress of a great house to a perfectly preserved cat, we choose five must - see mummies in collections across the UK.

But while the idea of an art historian as overall director was no doubt necessary when the new super-Tate was young, the system may not be valid long term: the individual directors can not be sure they are master / mistress in their own house, as is suggested by the rapid succession in the directorship of Tate Modern (three in its first decade, and for some complex reason all non — British).

For many years in my hometown of Los Angeles, California I worked as a drag dominatrix calling myself Mistress Veronica V'Interest at the infamous House of Domination in Hollywood of the famous German American Mistress Ilsa Strix who is now married to the A-list transgendered film director Lana Wachowski of the Matrix franchise.

My namesake, Elizabeth Iliffe, Wyndham's mistress and later wife, worked with Turner at Petworth House — a painter, she built a lab, made pigments, won a medal for designing a type of lever, and did horticultural experiments.

It seems as though Lord Hawke married the women in question but there was instead some question whether the marriage was a sham and that she was instead his mistress who he was calling Lady Hawke until he booted her out of the house and no longer wanted her calling herself Lady Hawke.