viscount

Example Sentences

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Former lovers, a marquise and a viscount, pass the time in decadent games of destruction in pre-revolutionary France.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019

Queue up these tunes, and your pup will be able to wait out storms with the refinement and sophistication of a forlorn viscount peering out his estate’s rainy window.

From Slate • May 16, 2019

Another group of deniers, led by a British viscount with a degree in classical architecture, asked to file an amicus brief in the case.

From The Verge • Mar. 22, 2018

The viscount apparently had no idea how “American” her energy was.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2016

“Who cares if a Modegan viscount outranks a Vintish spara-thain?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss