Missis

"Beggin 'your pardon," I'd tell 'im, "it's nothink o' the kind; and, if you don't believe _my_ word, you may go and call your Missis out of the back kitching, as knows more about it than you do! "

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 Various

"Got a regular obsession that the Missis is his Aunt," said Mr. Polly, expanding it.

The History of Mr. Polly 1906

Around the door, a baker's dozen of boys with shaggy hair and sadly worn clothes besought the more prosperous of the grown-ups, "Take us in, Mister [or" Missis "as the case might be], we ain't got no dime."

A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely

"Missis," she whispered, kneeling down beside my chair.

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

"Missis," he said, "Massa hit me wid ebery shot in de gun, and me come home to dead."

Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923, 1923

"Missis," he said, "Massa hit me wid ebery shot in de gun, and me come home to dead."

Memoirs of a Southerner Thomas, Edward J 1923

"Missis," began the borrowed soloist, meeting Mrs. Milo's horrified gaze with undaunted eye, "Clarence, he is jealousy dat I sing so fine."

Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913

There she was, clever, independent, successful, holding her own in the world, earning her living, fascinating a crowd of people, whilst we poor respectable nonentities sat pretending to despise her -- as if we were not waiting until some man in want of a female slave should offer us our board and lodging and the privilege of his lordly name with 'Missis' before it for our lifelong services.

The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

"Indeed I should have done so before, only I knew that you had gone to pay a visit to that tall white 'Missis' who ties up her head in a blanket, and thought that neither of you would like to be disturbed."

She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Joseph compromised by the universal and elastic "Missis"; his master simply avoided all names.

With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882