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  • The age range of his conquests runs the gamut of early twenties to early sixties, and he even gets a complaisant cuckold to give a nod of approval to his relationship with a long-term mistress.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

  • The age range of his conquests runs the gamut of early twenties to early sixties, and he even gets a complaisant cuckold to give a nod of approval to his relationship with a long-term mistress.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Tim Stretton 2010

  • And John Snow who was Bush's treasury secretary that the agents describe taking him to Richmond almost every weekend where his wife lived but also there was this woman they describe as his mistress.

    CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2009 2009

  • One day the young woman who took in the letters had not got change, and she called her mistress.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Perhaps language is one place where there is room for a word mistress.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Perhaps language is one place where there is room for a word mistress.

    le truc - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • Jane screamed out in horror, realizing that she was in total control of the woman she called mistress.

    Mark Rothko: An Exchange Seldes, Lee 1979

  • "Why," said I, "I supposed you knew the name of the lady you call your mistress."

    Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • One day the young woman who took in the letters had not got change, and she called her mistress.

    The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Diana said, "at the end of my tether," secretly collaborated with the author Andrew Morton, in a book which exposed the royal marriage as the sham and chronicled in vivid detail Diana's struggle, bulimia, suicide attempts and her grievances of her self-centred husband's indifference to her plight and continued relationship with his long-term mistress.

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