mistus

Jes 'de same 's ef she was dancin' on ol 'mistus' ball-room flo '.

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

I was the only child and had always lived at the big house with my mistus.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

It may be mentioned here that they say in Sussex that the rosemary will never blossom except where "the mistus" is master.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

My mistus would not let me go fishing on Sunday, but I would slip off and go anyhow.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

I sho was glad when mistus sent for me and speak rite out

The Southern Cross A Play in Four Acts Foxhall Daingerfield 1910

I bleeged ter get dis lookin better fo mistus see it.

The Southern Cross A Play in Four Acts Foxhall Daingerfield 1910

He suprised ter see me, but he ax me rite off how de people was and most pintedly bout ole mistus and Miss Fair.

The Southern Cross A Play in Four Acts Foxhall Daingerfield 1910

I powerful skerd, yet I bleged to go, cause I got ter git somethin for mistus ter eat, and de very fust person I meet war Mars

The Southern Cross A Play in Four Acts Foxhall Daingerfield 1910

I tell you mistus gwine get chicken ef dars chicken lef in dis world.

The Southern Cross A Play in Four Acts Foxhall Daingerfield 1910

Yo'll fine Miss Pauline a monstrus good mistus, 'cept w'en yo' makes her mad, an 'den, phew, w'en yer jist git her dander up she's a pufect singe cat.

The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894