viscount
Example Sentences
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“Eccentric Lives,” a collection of cheeky obituaries from Britain’s Daily Telegraph, includes one about a viscount who shot at a hot-air balloon.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
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
Imagine the interest once all the old private art collections are opened to the public, and an actual viscount can tell you how his great-great-grandad won that Rembrandt in a game of cards.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2019
“Who cares if a Modegan viscount outranks a Vintish spara-thain?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
