Sentences with phrase «orders of her mistress»

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She probes the antic recklessness and wanton secrecy endemic to love affairs, breathing life into mistresses who evince the agency, autonomy, self - direction, and order of this definition — attributes far removed from the type of lasciviousness once meriting containment by legal statute and exile in imperial Rome — as well as to those who, by choice or circumstance, fell prey to their lovers» manipulation.

One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised - a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China.

A famous author finds he has to get rid of his pregnant mistress in order to protect his image as a family man, setting into motion an increasingly complicated cover - up.

Mistress America is quite a bit of fun for its first 45 minutes, but when Greta Gerwig's Brooke drags her soon - to - be-half-sister Tracy (Lola Kirke), her friend who almost assuredly has a crush on her Tony (Matthew Shear) and his dramatically jealous and paranoid girlfriend Nicolette (Jasmine Cephas Jones) to suburban Connecticut in order to confront / solicit her ex-fiancee Dylan (Michael Chernus) and his wife / her nemesis Mamie - Claire (Heather Lind), it kicks into another gear entirely.

Even the most snobbish could not deny the breed's obvious beauty, however, and in short order, Yorkies were gracing show rings and the laps of wealthy mistresses.

A married man was able to get a share of property purchased in his mistress» sole name (in order to hide the asset in divorce proceedings) in Lowson v Coombes [1999] Ch 373, [1998] All ER (D) 644.