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  • Eighteen years earlier, during the French and Indian War, an older brother, Brigadier George Augustus, Viscount Howe, one of the outstanding British soldiers of the time, had been killed at Ticonderoga.†   (source)
  • Viscount Mulcaster.†   (source)
  • Viscount Cronshaw was fifth viscount, twenty-five years of age, rich, unmarried, and very fond of the theatrical world.†   (source)
  • Duke Gant of Westmoreland, Viscount Pondicherry, twelfth Lord Runnymede, who hunts for true love, incognito, in Devon and ripe grain, and finds the calico white legs embedded in sweet hay.†   (source)
  • I arrest you, Christopher Davidson-charge of murdering Viscount Cronshaw-anything you say will be used in evidence against you.†   (source)
  • The sixth Viscount Cronshaw was a man of about fifty, suave in manner, with a handsome, dissolute face.†   (source)
  • He could not tell me what became of Christine or the viscount.†   (source)
  • The viscount threw up his arms with a gesture of despair.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (choking with rage): Hear his arrogance!†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT DE VALVERT (shrugging his shoulders): Swaggerer!†   (source)
  • One thought, however, consoled the viscount: he would certainly never be recognized!†   (source)
  • "Oh," whispered the viscount, "he is quite close!†   (source)
  • DE GUICHE (trying to draw away the dismayed viscount): Come away, Viscount!†   (source)
  • LE BRET: Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche, The Viscount, Baro, the Academy….†   (source)
  • The viscount had evidently repeated Christine's narrative to his brother, during the night.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (who was going away, turns back): What on earth is the fellow saying now?†   (source)
  • Chapter XVIII -- The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the viscount had to repeat his cry time after time.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: What may that be, an if you please?†   (source)
  • The viscount put his head under his hands and wept.†   (source)
  • CYRANO (taking off his hat, and bowing as if the viscount had introduced himself): Ah?†   (source)
  • "Oh, I swear," said the viscount, "that the tune dies away in the barrel!†   (source)
  • CHRISTIAN (who is watching and listening, starts on hearing this name): The Viscount!†   (source)
  • At that moment, the viscount could not help uttering an exclamation of impotent rage.†   (source)
  • The viscount's friends hold him up and bear him away.†   (source)
  • I did my best to induce the poor viscount to listen to reason.†   (source)
  • "Good-by, Philippe," said the viscount again and left the room.†   (source)
  • Seeing my pistols, the little viscount asked me if we were going to fight a duel.†   (source)
  • Chapter XIX -- The Viscount and the Persian.†   (source)
  • The viscount summoned up all his courage.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said the viscount, "those gentlemen have heard of the Opera ghost.†   (source)
  • The viscount put his two full hands close to my lantern ….†   (source)
  • The silver cross is worn by the eldest daughters of Viscounts.†   (source)
  • She chose the Viscount, and the violin struck up once more.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle Claire and the viscount—that was Mr. Valentin, you know—were both in the house.†   (source)
  • "Ah, here is my mother," cried the viscount.†   (source)
  • And then one morning the Viscount had taken it away with him.†   (source)
  • The Viscount of Morcerf can only wed a marchioness.†   (source)
  • The memory of the Viscount always returned as she read.†   (source)
  • "Well, my dear viscount," said Monte Cristo, "I have an infallible remedy to propose to you."†   (source)
  • "I?" said Monte Cristo; "my dear Viscount, how have you discovered that I did not like M. Franz!†   (source)
  • "A letter from the viscount!" exclaimed Franz.†   (source)
  • I am not like you, viscount; you like your title, do you not?†   (source)
  • To sea, viscount; you know I am a sailor.†   (source)
  • "Which," asked he, "the viscount or the count?"†   (source)
  • "Are not you the person who brought me a letter," inquired Franz, "from the Viscount of Morcerf?"†   (source)
  • Permit me to remind you that you are not in the Chamber, my dear Viscount.†   (source)
  • "How did the Viscount Albert fall into Luigi's hands?"†   (source)
  • So, my dear viscount, whenever you wish to be regaled with music come and sup with me.†   (source)
  • Your excellency is the travelling companion of the viscount?†   (source)
  • My dear viscount, you are dreadfully impertinent.†   (source)
  • "But," said Franz, looking round him uneasily, "where is the Viscount?†   (source)
  • My stables are at your command, viscount; but you will kill yourself by riding on horseback.†   (source)
  • Ah, ha, you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?†   (source)
  • Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is."†   (source)
  • You are mistaken, viscount; I believe he has not a franc in his possession.†   (source)
  • "Bravo, Viscount," said Monte Cristo, smiling; "you are a delightful cicerone.†   (source)
  • Enough, viscount; you will remember those two vows, will you not?†   (source)
  • "Ha, ha," said Chateau-Renaud, "here comes some friends of yours, viscount!†   (source)
  • "Are you ill, mother?" cried the viscount, springing towards her.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury made report of the decree of the Council of Executors concerning the obsequies of his late most illustrious Majesty, and finished by reading the signatures of the Executors, to wit: the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord Chancellor of England; William Lord St. John; John Lord Russell; Edward Earl of Hertford; John Viscount Lisle; Cuthbert Bishop of Durham— Tom was not listening—an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him.†   (source)
  • In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—indeed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen-mill viscounts.†   (source)
  • Would fain marry Roxane to a certain sorry fellow, one Monsieur de Valvert, a viscount—and—accommodating!†   (source)
  • 'the noble viscount sitting opposite'—all these expressions, all this parliamentarism of a free people, has an enormous attraction for me.†   (source)
  • … THE VISCOUNT: What do you mean?†   (source)
  • De Guiche, the viscount, the marquises, have all disappeared behind the curtain to take their places on the benches placed on the stage.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (drawing his sword): Good!†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (contemptuously): Poet!†   (source)
  • A marquis (watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses the pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen, among them the Viscount de Valvert): He pays a fine court, your De Guiche!†   (source)
  • … THE VISCOUNT: What ails you?†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (angrily): Buffoon!†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, the viscount had absolute confidence in the Persian, though he knew nothing about him.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: But, Sir….†   (source)
  • At first, the viscount refused to believe; but he received such exact details that he ceased protesting.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (laughing): Ha!†   (source)
  • When the ceiling lit up and the forest became visible around us, the viscount's stupefaction was immense.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT (stamping): Oh!†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: Base scoundrel!†   (source)
  • The little viscount is a brave fellow, but he knew hardly anything about his adversary; and it was so much the better.†   (source)
  • As soon as the daroga recovered his strength and his wits, he sent to Count Philippe's house to inquire after the viscount's health.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: You….†   (source)
  • With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: No!†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: But….†   (source)
  • The viscount read: "The latest news in the Faubourg is that there is a promise of marriage between Mlle.†   (source)
  • … THE VISCOUNT: No one?†   (source)
  • Tired out, I flung myself down beside the viscount, for I had had enough of looking for springs which I could not find.†   (source)
  • And the viscount fired, but I do not think that he hit the lion; only, he smashed a mirror, as I perceived the next morning, at daybreak.†   (source)
  • THE VISCOUNT: A ballade?†   (source)
  • I was quite surprised--and I said so to the viscount--that we had encountered no other dangerous animals during the night.†   (source)
  • The viscount staggers.†   (source)
  • I gave one to the viscount and advised him to hold himself ready to fire, for, after all, Erik might be waiting for us behind the wall.†   (source)
  • "That's his brother, the viscount."†   (source)
  • When he was on the threshold, she said, in so low a voice that the viscount guessed rather than heard her words: "To-morrow, my dear betrothed!†   (source)
  • Thereupon, seeing the hostility with which her ward had addressed the viscount, Mamma Valerius suddenly took Christine's part.†   (source)
  • At the aunt's request, seconded by Professor Valerius, Daae consented to give the young viscount some violin lessons.†   (source)
  • I had no time to explain all this to the viscount; besides, there was nothing to be gained by complicating the position.†   (source)
  • I urged the viscount to hold our weapons ready to fire and not to stray from camp, while I went on looking for my spring.†   (source)
  • "What's this?" cried the viscount.†   (source)
  • I do not know if the viscount heard the girl's swooning voice, for he was too much occupied by the astounding spectacle that now appeared before his distracted gaze.†   (source)
  • The viscount dropped into a chair.†   (source)
  • But, as love is all-powerful, at the Opera as--and even more than--elsewhere, we wonder how Count Philippe intends to prevent the viscount, his brother, from leading the new Margarita to the altar.†   (source)
  • The viscount wanted to fling himself down the hole; but I, fearing a new trick of the monster's, stopped him, turned on my dark lantern and went down first.†   (source)
  • The stranger kept up the gesture that recommended discretion and then, at the moment when the astonished viscount was about to ask the reason of his mysterious intervention, bowed and disappeared.†   (source)
  • Erik poured a drop of rum into the daroga's cup and, pointing to the viscount, said: "He came to himself long before we knew if you were still alive, daroga.†   (source)
  • I had been working like this for half an hour and had finished three panels, when, as ill-luck would have it, I turned round on hearing a muttered exclamation from the viscount.†   (source)
  • The feminine element in the brilliant audience seemed curiously puzzled; and the viscount's absence gave rise to any amount of whispering behind the fans.†   (source)
  • The viscount, who, of course, was present, was the only one to suffer on hearing the thousand echoes of this fresh triumph; for Christine still wore her plain gold ring.†   (source)
  • I see!" cried the viscount.†   (source)
  • The viscount, therefore, remained in the room watching Christine as she slowly returned to life, while even the joint managers, Debienne and Poligny, who had come to offer their sympathy and congratulations, found themselves thrust into the passage among the crowd of dandies.†   (source)
  • After avoiding the commissary of police, a number of door-shutters and the firemen, after meeting the rat-catcher and passing the man in the felt hat unperceived, the viscount and I arrived without obstacle in the third cellar, between the set piece and the scene from the Roi de Lahore.†   (source)
  • He was bound to conclude in favor of the madness of the viscount and the accidental death of the elder brother, for lack of evidence to the contrary; but he was nevertheless persuaded that a terrible tragedy had taken place between the two brothers in connection with Christine Daae.†   (source)
  • This was the moment to enter his house through the third cellar; and I resolved to take with me that poor little desperate viscount, who, at the first suggestion, accepted, with an amount of confidence in myself that touched me profoundly.†   (source)
  • Failing to find the pair, he hurried back to the Opera, remembered Raoul's strange confidence about his fantastic rival and learned that the viscount had made every effort to enter the cellars of the theater and that he had disappeared, leaving his hat in the prima donna's dressing-room beside an empty pistol-case.†   (source)
  • The regular frequenters of the Opera, who pretended to know the truth about the viscount's love-story, exchanged significant smiles at certain passages in Margarita's part; and they made a show of turning and looking at Philippe de Chagny's box when Christine sang: "I wish I could but know who was he That addressed me, If he was noble, or, at least, what his name is."†   (source)
  • He knew some anecdotes about the heroes of the turf, and various clever tricks of Marquesses and Viscounts which seemed to prove that blood asserted its pre-eminence even among black-legs; but the minute retentiveness of his memory was chiefly shown about the horses he had himself bought and sold; the number of miles they would trot you in no time without turning a hair being, after the lapse of years, still a subject of passionate asseveration, in which he would assist the imagination…†   (source)
  • "I," replied the viscount,—"I saw Castaing executed, but I think I was rather intoxicated that day, for I had quitted college the same morning, and we had passed the previous night at a tavern."†   (source)
  • Sir Walter had once been in company with the late viscount, but had never seen any of the rest of the family; and the difficulties of the case arose from there having been a suspension of all intercourse by letters of ceremony, ever since the death of that said late viscount, when, in consequence of a dangerous illness of Sir Walter's at the same time, there had been an unlucky omission at Kellynch.†   (source)
  • But, on the other hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road.†   (source)
  • Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and…†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cadwallader held that it was a poor satisfaction to take precedence when everybody about you knew that you had not a drop of good blood in your veins; and Celia again, stopping to look at Arthur, said, "It would be very nice, though, if he were a Viscount—and his lordship's little tooth coming through!†   (source)
  • Dear Rhoda McMull will disengage the whole of the Castletoddy property as soon as poor dear Lord Castletoddy dies, who is quite epileptic; and little Macduff McMull will be Viscount Castletoddy.†   (source)
  • Fred wrote the lines demanded in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or down, the strokes had a blotted solidity and the letters disdained to keep the line—in short, it was a manuscript of that venerable kind easy to interpret when you know beforehand what the writer means.†   (source)
  • …knows the melancholy end of that nobleman, which befell at Naples two months after the French Revolution of 1830; when the Most Honourable George Gustavus, Marquis of Steyne, Earl of Gaunt and of Gaunt Castle, in the Peerage of Ireland, Viscount Hellborough, Baron Pitchley and Grillsby, a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece of Spain, of the Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of the Crescent, First Lord of the…†   (source)
  • The first month of her marriage, her rides in the wood, the viscount that waltzed, and Lagardy singing, all repassed before her eyes.†   (source)
  • …and Guinever Mango as bridesmaids; Colonel Bludyer of the Dragoon Guards (eldest son of the house of Bludyer Brothers, Mincing Lane), another cousin of the bridegroom, and the Honourable Mrs. Bludyer; the Honourable George Boulter, Lord Levant's son, and his lady, Miss Mango that was; Lord Viscount Castletoddy; Honourable James McMull and Mrs. McMull (formerly Miss Swartz); and a host of fashionables, who have all married into Lombard Street and done a great deal to ennoble Cornhill.†   (source)
  • Emma thought she recognized the Viscount, turned back, and caught on the horizon only the movement of the heads rising or falling with the unequal cadence of the trot or gallop.†   (source)
  • After dinner Mrs. Crawley had an assembly which was attended by the Duchess (Dowager) of Stilton, Duc de la Gruyere, Marchioness of Cheshire, Marchese Alessandro Strachino, Comte de Brie, Baron Schapzuger, Chevalier Tosti, Countess of Slingstone, and Lady F. Macadam, Major-General and Lady G. Macbeth, and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon. Sands Bedwin, Bobachy Bahawder," and an &c.†   (source)
  • Why, it was he—the Viscount.†   (source)
  • One of the waltzers, however, who was familiarly called Viscount, and whose low cut waistcoat seemed moulded to his chest, came a second time to ask Madame Bovary to dance, assuring her that he would guide her, and that she would get through it very well.†   (source)
  • They started again, and with a more rapid movement; the Viscount, dragging her along disappeared with her to the end of the gallery, where panting, she almost fell, and for a moment rested her head upon his breast.†   (source)
  • Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in.†   (source)
  • Besides the riding-whip with its silver-gilt handle, Rodolphe had received a seal with the motto Amor nel cor* furthermore, a scarf for a muffler, and, finally, a cigar-case exactly like the Viscount's, that Charles had formerly picked up in the road, and that Emma had kept.†   (source)
  • She fancied she saw him opposite at his windows; then all grew confused; clouds gathered; it seemed to her that she was again turning in the waltz under the light of the lustres on the arm of the Viscount, and that Leon was not far away, that he was coming; and yet all the time she was conscious of the scent of Rodolphe's head by her side.†   (source)
  • The Viscount's?†   (source)
  • Delicately handling the beautiful satin bindings, Emma looked with dazzled eyes at the names of the unknown authors, who had signed their verses for the most part as counts or viscounts.†   (source)
  • But, viscount, since we cannot perform the journey in less than seven or eight hours, do not keep me waiting.†   (source)
  • Doubtless, my dear viscount, you will not be taken by force; and seriously, do you wish to break off your engagement?†   (source)
  • "No," said Monte Cristo; "I told you I did not wish to be behind my time; I dressed myself in the carriage, and descended at the viscount's door."†   (source)
  • Ah, no joking, viscount, if you please; I do not patronize M. Andrea—at least, not as concerns M. Danglars.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Franz with a sigh, "do as you please my dear viscount, for your arguments are beyond my powers of refutation.†   (source)
  • The fortune of war, my dear viscount,—the caprice of fortune; that is the way in which these things are to be accounted for.†   (source)
  • Well, Viscount, there will be in my court-yard this evening a good travelling britzka, with four post-horses, in which one may rest as in a bed.†   (source)
  • Oh, my dear viscount, do talk reason!†   (source)
  • No, no, I wish to do away with that mysterious reputation that you have given me, my dear viscount; it is tiresome to be always acting Manfred.†   (source)
  • You are mistaken, my dear viscount.†   (source)
  • You are difficult to please, viscount.†   (source)
  • I am resolved to desert them and go to some remote corner of the earth, and shall be happy if you will accompany me, viscount.†   (source)
  • "Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing-room," said the viscount; "they make the countess ill."†   (source)
  • Excessively; only imagine—but do tell me, viscount, whether you really are acquainted with it or no?†   (source)
  • "I only mean that the count seems the rage," replied the viscount, smiling, "and that you are the seventeenth person that has asked me the same question.†   (source)
  • "What would you have, my dear viscount?" said Monte Cristo, wiping his hands on the towel which Ali had brought him; "I must occupy my leisure moments in some way or other.†   (source)
  • "You have there a most charming mistress, viscount," said the count in a perfectly calm tone; "and this costume—a ball costume, doubtless—becomes her admirably."†   (source)
  • "Your excellency," he said, "the master of the Hotel de Londres has sent to let you know that a man is waiting for you with a letter from the Viscount of Morcerf."†   (source)
  • As for you, viscount," continued Monte Cristo to Morcerf, "you are more fortunate than the government, for your arms are really beautiful, and speak to the imagination.†   (source)
  • "Ma foi, my dear viscount, you are fated to hear music this evening; you have only escaped from Mademoiselle Danglars' piano, to be attacked by Haidee's guzla."†   (source)
  • The curtain at length fell on the performances, to the infinite satisfaction of the Viscount of Morcerf, who seized his hat, rapidly passed his fingers through his hair, arranged his cravat and wristbands, and signified to Franz that he was waiting for him to lead the way.†   (source)
  • "My dear viscount," said Monte Cristo gravely, "you must have seen before to-day that at all times and in all places I have been at your disposal, but the service which you have just demanded of me is one which it is out of my power to render you."†   (source)
  • For an instant the idea struck Madame Danglars that this eagerness on the part of the young viscount arose from his impatience to join her party, and she whispered her expectations to her daughter, that Albert was hurrying to pay his respects to them.†   (source)
  • Franz presented Albert as one of the most distinguished young men of the day, both as regarded his position in society and extraordinary talents; nor did he say more than the truth, for in Paris and the circle in which the viscount moved, he was looked upon and cited as a model of perfection.†   (source)
  • Morrel only then recollected the letter he had received from the viscount, in which, without assigning any reason, he begged him to go to the opera, but he understood that something terrible was brooding.†   (source)
  • It was easy to discover that the delicate care of a mother, unwilling to part from her son, and yet aware that a young man of the viscount's age required the full exercise of his liberty, had chosen this habitation for Albert.†   (source)
  • As regards the generality of mankind it is; but not for you, my dear viscount, who are one of my most intimate friends, and on whose silence I feel I may rely, if I consider it necessary to enjoin it—may I not do so?†   (source)
  • I do not know him, viscount.†   (source)
  • "It is from no personal ill-feeling towards the viscount, that is all I can say, sir," replied Danglars, who resumed his insolent manner as soon as he perceived that Morcerf was a little softened and calmed down.†   (source)
  • "A thousand thanks for your kindness, viscount," returned the Count of Monte Cristo "but I suppose that M. Bertuccio has suitably employed the four hours and a half I have given him, and that I shall find a carriage of some sort ready at the door."†   (source)
  • Then there is his son, Andrea, a charming young man, about your own age, viscount, bearing the same title as yourself, and who is making his entry into the Parisian world, aided by his father's millions.†   (source)
  • "Madame," said the Viscount of Morcerf, advancing towards the countess, "yesterday you were so condescending as to promise me a galop; I am rather late in claiming this gracious promise, but here is my friend, whose character for veracity you well know, and he will assure you the delay arose from no fault of mine."†   (source)
  • Albert, besides being an elegant, well-looking young man, was also possessed of considerable talent and ability; moreover, he was a viscount—a recently created one, certainly, but in the present day it is not necessary to go as far back as Noah in tracing a descent, and a genealogical tree is equally estimated, whether dated from 1399 or merely 1815; but to crown all these advantages, Albert de Morcerf commanded an income of 50,000 livres, a more than sufficient sum to render him a…†   (source)
  • Salute my hero, viscount.†   (source)
  • The influence of the viscount and viscountess in their brother's behalf was assisted by that right understanding of Mr. Morland's circumstances which, as soon as the general would allow himself to be informed, they were qualified to give.†   (source)
  • [32] /Vide/ How to Lengthen Our Ears, by Viscount Harberton; London, 1917, p. 28.†   (source)
  • The prefix is applied to both sexes and belongs by law, /inter alia/, to all present or past maids of honor, to all justices of the High Court during their terms of office, to the Scotch Lords of Session, to the sons and daughters of viscounts and barons, to the younger sons and all daughters of earls, and to the members of the legislative and executive councils of the colonies.†   (source)
  • An't please your Grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter,— The Viscount Rochford,—one of her Highness' women.†   (source)
  • Of Milan greate BARNABO VISCOUNT,<30> God of delight, and scourge of Lombardy, Why should I not thine clomben* wert so high?†   (source)
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