Sometimes our Mistess would come down early to watch us dance.
Dey used to give you de han' so you could please yo' mistess an' dey would sell you hush water in a jug.
Mr. Bill Slaughter and Miss Mary Slaughter was our marster and mistess and dey had two chilluns, Marsa Robert and Marsa Brat," Sara said.
It was part o' my poor dear childern; but I didn't want mistess to keep it.
An' mistess say she won't have all this cryin' round her.
As we started for the door mistess followed us cryin' an' wringin' her han's.
Yes, Honey, de Lord done put it on record dat dere is sho a burnin' place for torment, and didn't my Marster and Mistess larn me de same thing?
Mistess sont for de doctor but he was too nigh gone, and it warn't long 'fore he had done gone into de glory of de next world.
Nary a stalk of cotton was growed dar, but jus' de same our clothes was made out of cloth dat Mistess and my mammy wove out of thread us chillun spun, and Mistess tuk a heap of pains makin' up our dresses.
I was sho skeered and when I run and told Mistess she made us all come inside her house and lock all de doors.
Some of de udder slave chilluns had homemade shoes, but I allus had good sto'-bought shoes what my young mistess done outgrowed, or what some of de comp'ny gimme.
When us knowed he was a-comin' Mistess let us cook up heaps of stuff, enough to fill dat long old table plumb full, but dat table was allus empty when he left.
On de fust Sunday us went to Captain Crick Baptist church, to Sandy Crick Presbyterian church on second Sundays, and on third Sundays meetin' was at Antioch Methodist church whar Marster and Mistess was members.
Mistess said dat a white 'oman got atter her one time 'bout lettin' a little Nigger look atter her chillun, and dat 'oman got herself told.
When dey put him down on de big house porch he told Old Mistess he didn't want no supper 'cept a little coffee and bread, and he strangled on de fust bite.
Mistess 'lowed me to go, and atter he had done got what he said he was sont atter, he said dat now us would git us some apples.
He sont it to de factory to have it carded into bats and us chillun spun de thread at home and mammy and Mistess wove it into cloth for our winter clothes.
All these my Mother spun an' wove the cloth fer an' my Mistess made.
The young mistess would scole me but young marster would say 'Leave Bill erlone, ah lack to see her dance.
Marster andMistess trusted Bill to take keer of them chillun and ole Bill sho did take keer of em.
Endurin' slavery Mistess tuk care of all the nigger babies borned on our plantations and looked atter they mammies too, but atter freedom come heap of nigger babies died out.
Sometimes my marster would fetch Mistess down to the slave quarters to see a weddin'.
Mistess done larned the cook to count the clock, but none of the rest of our niggers could count the clock.
They never did beat me, if they had my old mistess would have raised sand with 'em.
My Mistess had de cook cookin' all day Fridays an' Saddays so when Sunday come dare wuz hot coffee made an' dat wuz all, everything else wuz cooked up an' cold.
Your marster or mistess would send you to the courthouse with a note and they would put you in them stocks and beat you, then they would give you a note and send you back.
Well one night the babies cried and I didn't wake up right away to 'tend to 'em and my mistess jumped out of bed, grabbed the piece of iron that was used to push up the fire and began beatin' me with it.
My Mother spun an' wove de cloth, an' dyed hit, but our Mistess made our clothes.
De fust thing I recollects is bein' round in de kitchen when dey wuz makin' ginger cakes an' my Mistess givin' me de pan she made 'em in fer me ter sop hit out.
My mistess heard me and put me in a stock and beat me.
Mistess said she wuz goin' to have Marster put her in de stock and beat her when he come home.
One dayMistess jumped on her 'bout something and de gal hit her back.
His Mistessmade all his clothes, "good warm ones, too.
Wheeler said his Mistess called up all the little negroes on the plantation on Sunday afternoons and taught them the catechism and told them Bible stories.
De grown slaves cooked and et in dey cabins, but our Mistess wouldn't trust 'em to feed de little ones.
Oh, sir, don't you see as the debbil has blowed up the Haunted Chapel and my young mistess and marster into it all this time," sobbed the man.
When I left marster he was sitting at the door of the vault, where we thought the dead body of my poor murdered young mistess was hid; and when I comed back I found this here!
Our mistess an't nowhere round, and it an't no use your staying here to grieve yourself to death among the ruins.
Yes, but she tried to make me believe as her mistess was down there also.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
