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
She: Lady Daphne Bridgerton, daughter of a viscount, beautiful, witty, sympathetic, bored by her conventional suitors and yearning to have children — she’s one of a happy brood of eight.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2017
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
