mist'ess

On these nights our mist'ess would give us chickens or somethin 'else so us could have somethin' extra.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

I 'spects I was bad as de rest of 'em 'bout dem razor fights, but not whar my good old mist'ess could larn 'bout it.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Does you 'member de time w'en my ole mist'ess, Mis' 'Livy upstairs's mammy, died?

The Marrow of Tradition 1895

She had already be'n in de house fer a week, an 'Mars Sam knowed ef she once come ter stay, she'd be de mist'ess of eve'ybody in it an' him too.

The Marrow of Tradition 1895

My mist'ess hadn 'got col' yit, an 'Mis' Polly, who'd be'n a widder fer two years dis las 'time, wuz already fig'rin' on takin 'her place fer good, an' she did n! want no other woman roun 'de house dat Mars Sam might take a' intrus 'in.

The Marrow of Tradition 1895

None er dese yer young folks ain 'got de trainin' my ole mist'ess give me.

The Marrow of Tradition 1895

A new alarm, a new exaltation -- "Oh, no, my -- mist'ess; no, no! you knows you on'y a-temptin 'o' dy servant!"

The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

"Yaas, suh," she hurried to say, "my mist'ess ax de honoh to see you at de stateroom o 'Mahs' Basile."

Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

I lay dey ain't nobody done dat for my mist'ess since I been gone.

Colonel Carter of Cartersville Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

He and de young mist'ess is out now lookin 'for peach blossoms to fill it.

Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876