countess
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Boswell is a “pudgy intelligent owl,” while the countess “shook hands firmly, like a queen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And when it comes to immortality, she's "not sure" she would want to share that with her countess character.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
When she meets the countess and Blitzkopf the parrot, the magical stories she hears helps her to solve a painful mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
The countess helped plan the village and designed its pavilion.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
“Having said I ask no questions,” the countess went on, with a smile, “I have to say that I am rather curious about the elephant.”
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
To organize a resistance would have been impossible, with countesses fainting on every side, duchesses in hysterics.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
