past mistress

How to use past mistress in a sentence

• The assaults she made upon his fidelity proved her to be past-mistress of tactics and strategy.

  The Boss of Little Arcady | Harry Leon Wilson

• Already you are past-mistress on the subject of vases and statues.

  Letters to an Unknown | Prosper Mrime

• She was past-mistress of the entrechat and other mysteries of the ballet academy.

  Interpreters | Carl Van Vechten

• She was past-mistress of the canoeist's difficult art, and her canoe flew on as though drawn away into the dark on unseen cords.

  A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson

• Patricia was a past-mistress in the art of ignoring what she considered inconvenient, or personal, remarks.

  Patricia | Emilia Elliott