viscount

Example Sentences

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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

Another group of deniers, led by a British viscount with a degree in classical architecture, asked to file an amicus brief in the case.

From The Verge • Mar. 22, 2018

Now he’s back on stage taking on the complex character of Valmont, the wicked viscount in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2016

First came the people with actual inherited titles, such as baron or viscount; then came the wealthy landowners, and then the prosperous businessmen.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood