misthress

"Sure the misthress is the swatest angel God iver sint, so she is."

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

Nobody but the "misthress" herself is allowed to wait upon "the young lady."

April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

"misthress" marks the false note, "you will stay and pour out tea for us; you will?"

April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Tim: ‘the misthress is going to take on with Mister Jowls the praacher.’

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

“Send her at once!” shrieked the unfortunate woman; and the noise of frying presently ceasing, a hot woman made her appearance, wiping her brows with her apron, and asking, with an accent decidedly Hibernian, what the misthress wanted.

Mens Wives 2006

And what is it your misthress is wishing to do now?

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

So we turned in, and we were in bed maybe two hours or so, and fast enough, when down come the misthress as pale as a sheet, wid a candle in her hand, and begged me, for dear life, to come up into her room to her, and so I did, in coorse.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

I must go up wid you myself, and ask yer misthress down, as she should be asked.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

"Indade, me daar misthress," said she, "an 'it's good to see yees at home agin; for wasn't this the lonesom place whiles ye was absint."

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

"Ye'll have the pore crature that worried it'll set up barkin ', an' if the misthress did know, there be's a dawg in the house, she'd likely just throw a fit an 'die."

Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920