countess
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Boswell is a “pudgy intelligent owl,” while the countess “shook hands firmly, like a queen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And when it comes to immortality, she's "not sure" she would want to share that with her countess character.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Fellow Downton star Samantha Bond says fledgling performers in the series sometimes found it hard to distinguish between Dame Maggie and the acid-tongued dowager countess she portrayed.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
When she meets the countess and Blitzkopf the parrot, the magical stories she hears helps her to solve a painful mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
He ordered the soldiers to lower their weapons, told us all to stay right where we were, then followed the countess into her study.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
He jived and twisted with Gloria Vanderbilt and a succession of foreign countesses.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017
Malloy saw his own artsy social circle in the novel’s princes and countesses.
From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2017
Designer Ulyana Sergeenko flew in from Moscow to show a delightful collection inspired by Soviet life under the Bolsheviks, where countesses and peasants lived together in once-grand apartments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015
Not long ago, when in noble society, I understood full one-half of the conversation of two German countesses, each of whom could count at least sixty-four years, and as many ancestors.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
