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French Royalists pointed pridefully to three titled medal winners: the Countesses Caruyer de Beauvais, Fremy-Elphege and Le Lasseur.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bill would affect 24 British peeresses, including the Duchess of Fife, the Countesses of Cromartie, Loudoun and Seafield, Countess Roberts, and Viscountesses Wolseley and Rhondda.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everyone crowded round him, and the two Countesses, terrified now by what they had done, tried in vain to tear the magic vest from his body.

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson

Lords, living on ten or twelve hundred pounds a-year were to be met with everywhere; Countesses, lodged in every little town in Germany.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

I admitted the force of his criticism, but could not follow his distinction between Countesses and Duchesses.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend