earl
Example Sentences
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They include the alabaster monument to John, seventh earl of Arundel, a high-profile casualty of the Hundred Years’ War with France.
Viewers eventually learn Sophie’s servitude is forced after her parentage is revealed — she’s the illegitimate daughter of an earl.
From Los Angeles Times
“We hoped Ashton would give up, but he had his spies watching us, always. Some awful baroness . . . an earl of something or other . . . ,” Mater Lumley said.
From Literature
We may not be earls or billionaires, but we can eat like them.
From Salon
But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.
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