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
“So it is unlikely she would have been regarded as anything like an appropriate match for a viscount.”
From Los Angeles Times
A French viscount, her husband was stationed as a military attaché at the French Embassy.
From Washington Post
Way back, in some cases, with references to numerous founding fathers, Sir Thomas More and John Mordaunt, a 17th-century English viscount who faced impeachment.
From New York Times
Former lovers, a marquise and a viscount, pass the time in decadent games of destruction in pre-revolutionary France.
From Los Angeles Times
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