Simple safety guidelines prevent these missuses and accidents from happening.— News for Culpeper Star-Exponent
They're so ordinary you can't pick them out from common misters and missuses. "— Simon the Jester
I shall be off, he's sure to be out of temper; masters and missuses are always grumpy when they first get up.— Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts
My wife and daughter are timid, and the servant girl takes after her missuses.— The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
On being asked who they were, they repeated that they were the "missuses" of the white soldiers.— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
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