countess
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Graham finds his own principles tested when he begins a love affair with the Austrian countess whose estate is hosting the academy; her late husband, he learns, fought for the Germans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the film, Huppert's countess character returns to life in a scarlet red funeral barge sailing into in the Seegrotte, an underground Viennese lake popular with tourists.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
The dowager countess haunts the film, Fellowes says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
The countess helped plan the village and designed its pavilion.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
“You have heard of the stick and the carrot?” the countess went on.
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
With duchesses I'm 'and in glove, with countesses I'm thick; From all the nobs I get invites—they say I am "so chic!"
From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
