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
Now he’s back on stage taking on the complex character of Valmont, the wicked viscount in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
“Who cares if a Modegan viscount outranks a Vintish spara-thain?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
