viscount

Example Sentences

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“Eccentric Lives,” a collection of cheeky obituaries from Britain’s Daily Telegraph, includes one about a viscount who shot at a hot-air balloon.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

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

Imagine the interest once all the old private art collections are opened to the public, and an actual viscount can tell you how his great-great-grandad won that Rembrandt in a game of cards.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2019

First came the people with actual inherited titles, such as baron or viscount; then came the wealthy landowners, and then the prosperous businessmen.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood