Braintop sat in the chair of torture, and wrote flowingly, while his taskmistress looked over him, "Ladies of Brookfield."
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The negresses who worked under her eye found her a hard taskmistress.
"Audrey"
Mary Johnston
But my fair taskmistress only paused, with her finger on the page, smilingly to rebuke me, and then went on with the dictation.
"The Eye of Osiris"
R. Austin Freeman