arbitress

At present she was the arbitress of his actions.

Her good opinion alone mattered or rather she had become the arbitress of what was good and right.

Jane was the sole arbitress of fashion in Edinburgh.

At first Gulliver is indignant to hear his "noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated."

I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life--my genius for good or evil--waited there in humble guise.

The heron passes homeward to the mere, The blue mist creeps among the shivering trees, Gold world by world the silent stars appear, And like a blossom blown before the breeze, A white moon drifts across the shimmering sky, Mute arbitress of all thy sad, thy rapturous threnody.

She remembered reading a hymn to Ishtar, written at the dawn of time: Ruler of weapons, arbitress of the battle Framer of all decrees, wearer of the crown of dominion, Thou merciful Maiden. . . She sat down to the meal Ivy was making for her.