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- The most prominent members of British society were on hand for her engagement party-dukes, duchesses, knights, earls, counts, viscounts, and country squires-and all of them hid their faces behind masks, as did Alice.† (source)
- It took him a little while, as my father had not bothered to mention the majority of the baron's titles such as the Viscount of Montrone and Lord of Trelliston.† (source)
- Continuity lapses had begun to proliferate with the stealth of rats breeding in cellar corners: for a space of thirty pages, the Baron had become the Viscount from Misery's Quest.† (source)
- They had a big army staff college down there, and for three years in the mid-1930s, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, later the victor of the Battle of Alamein, taught there.† (source)
- In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves.† (source)
- "We will support your majesty with our lives and fortunes," vowed Viscount Townsend.† (source)
- But one newly minted viscount could not summon the necessary courage.† (source)
- Who cares if a Modegan viscount outranks a Vintish spara-thain?† (source)
- But when Shinny came in ....Geoffrey had been sitting by Ian, who was remembering in a broken, scarcely coherent way how he and Ian had rescued Misery from the palace dungeons of the mad French viscount Leroux, how they had escaped in a wagonload of hay, and how Misery distracted one of the viscounts guards at a critics moment by slipping one gorgeously unclad leg out of the hay and waving it delicately.† (source)
- But when Shinny came in ....Geoffrey had been sitting by Ian, who was remembering in a broken, scarcely coherent way how he and Ian had rescued Misery from the palace dungeons of the mad French viscount Leroux, how they had escaped in a wagonload of hay, and how Misery distracted one of the viscounts guards at a critics moment by slipping one gorgeously unclad leg out of the hay and waving it delicately.† (source)
- In the meantime, he was reading Milton, Virgil, Voltaire, Viscount Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History, and copying long extracts in a literary commonplace book.† (source)
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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)
- 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)
- Viscount Cronshaw was fifth viscount, twenty-five years of age, rich, unmarried, and very fond of the theatrical world.† (source)
- Viscount Mulcaster.† (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)
- "Oh," said the viscount, "those gentlemen have heard of the Opera ghost.† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT DE VALVERT (shrugging his shoulders): Swaggerer!† (source)
- CHRISTIAN (who is watching and listening, starts on hearing this name): The Viscount!† (source)
- The viscount summoned up all his courage.† (source)
- The viscount's friends hold him up and bear him away.† (source)
- "Oh," whispered the viscount, "he is quite close!† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT: What may that be, an if you please?† (source)
- Nevertheless, the viscount had to repeat his cry time after time.† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT: But, Sir... CYRANO: I wear no gloves?† (source)
- At that moment, the viscount could not help uttering an exclamation of impotent rage.† (source)
- The viscount threw up his arms with a gesture of despair.† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT (choking with rage): Hear his arrogance!† (source)
- DE GUICHE (trying to draw away the dismayed viscount): Come away, Viscount!† (source)
- The viscount put his head under his hands and wept.† (source)
- "Oh, I swear," said the viscount, "that the tune dies away in the barrel!† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT (who was going away, turns back): What on earth is the fellow saying now?† (source)
- Chapter XIX — The Viscount and the Persian.† (source)
- CYRANO (taking off his hat, and bowing as if the viscount had introduced himself): Ah?† (source)
- Seeing my pistols, the little viscount asked me if we were going to fight a duel.† (source)
- One thought, however, consoled the viscount: he would certainly never be recognized!† (source)
- The viscount had evidently repeated Christine's narrative to his brother, during the night.† (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)
- 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)
- Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is.† (source)
- And then one morning the Viscount had taken it away with him.† (source)
- "But," said Franz, looking round him uneasily, "where is the Viscount?† (source)
- The memory of the Viscount always returned as she read.† (source)
- Permit me to remind you that you are not in the Chamber, my dear Viscount.† (source)
- "A letter from the viscount!" exclaimed Franz.† (source)
- So, my dear viscount, whenever you wish to be regaled with music come and sup with me.† (source)
- Enough, viscount; you will remember those two vows, will you not?† (source)
- Ah, ha, you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?† (source)
- Your excellency is the travelling companion of the viscount?† (source)
- "Which," asked he, "the viscount or the count?"† (source)
- The Viscount of Morcerf can only wed a marchioness.† (source)
- You are mistaken, viscount; I believe he has not a franc in his possession.† (source)
- To sea, viscount; you know I am a sailor.† (source)
- "Are not you the person who brought me a letter," inquired Franz, "from the Viscount of Morcerf?"† (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)
- "Are you ill, mother?" cried the viscount, springing towards her.† (source)
- I am not like you, viscount; you like your title, do you not?† (source)
- "Ah, here is my mother," cried the viscount.† (source)
- My stables are at your command, viscount; but you will kill yourself by riding on horseback.† (source)
- "Ha, ha," said Chateau-Renaud, "here comes some friends of yours, viscount!† (source)
- "Bravo, Viscount," said Monte Cristo, smiling; "you are a delightful cicerone.† (source)
- How did the Viscount Albert fall into Luigi's hands?† (source)
- My dear viscount, you are dreadfully impertinent.† (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)
- Not that the discussions themselves interest me; I am not a politician, you know; but it delights me to see how they address each other 'the noble lord who agrees with me,' 'my honourable opponent who astonished Europe with his proposal,' 'the noble viscount sitting opposite'—all these expressions, all this parliamentarism of a free people, has an enormous attraction for me.† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT (drawing his sword): Good!† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT (contemptuously): Poet!† (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)
- CYRANO (still reciting): And an envoi Of four lines... THE VISCOUNT: You... CYRANO: I'll make one while we fight; And touch you at the final line.† (source)
- LE BRET: Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche, The Viscount, Baro, the Academy... CYRANO: Enough!† (source)
- ... THE VISCOUNT: What do you mean?† (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)
- 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)
- THE VISCOUNT (angrily): Buffoon!† (source)
- At first, the viscount refused to believe; but he received such exact details that he ceased protesting.† (source)
- ... THE VISCOUNT: What ails you?† (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: But... CYRANO (reciting, as if repeating a lesson): Know then that the ballade should contain Three eight-versed couplets... THE VISCOUNT (stamping): Oh!† (source)
- I was quite surprised—and I said so to the viscount—that we had encountered no other dangerous animals during the night.† (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)
- 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)
- THE VISCOUNT: Base scoundrel!† (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 (laughing): Ha!† (source)
- The viscount read: "The latest news in the Faubourg is that there is a promise of marriage between Mlle.† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT: No!† (source)
- THE VISCOUNT: A ballade?† (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)
- Thereupon, seeing the hostility with which her ward had addressed the viscount, Mamma Valerius suddenly took Christine's part.† (source)
- The viscount staggers† (source)
- I had no time to explain all this to the viscount; besides, there was nothing to be gained by complicating the position.† (source)
- ... THE VISCOUNT: No one?† (source)
- The little viscount is a brave fellow, but he knew hardly anything about his adversary; and it was so much the better.† (source)
- When the ceiling lit up and the forest became visible around us, the viscount's stupefaction was immense.† (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)
- Curiously enough, the viscount had absolute confidence in the Persian, though he knew nothing about him.† (source)
- At the aunt's request, seconded by Professor Valerius, Daae consented to give the young viscount some violin lessons.† (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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- That's his brother, the viscount.† (source)
- The viscount dropped into a chair.† (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 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)
- "What's this?" cried the viscount.† (source)
- The viscount put his two full hands close to my lantern ...I stooped to look ...and at once threw away the lantern with such violence that it broke and went out, leaving us in utter darkness.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Moncharmin opened it automatically, seemed hardly to recognize Mercier, his business-manager, exchanged a few words with him, without knowing what he was saying and, with an unconscious movement, put the safety-pin, for which he had no further use, into the hands of his bewildered subordinate ... Chapter XVIII — The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian.† (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 of his hearers by solemnly swearing that they never saw anything like it.† (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)
- 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)
- 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 main.† (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)
- 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)
- Mr. Mango and Lady Mary Mango were there, with the dear young Gwendoline 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)
- The first month of her marriage, her rides in the wood, the viscount that waltzed, and Lagardy singing, all repassed before her eyes.† (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)
- Everybody 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 Powder Closet and Groom of the Back Stairs, Colonel of the Gaunt or Regent's Own Regiment of Militia, a Truste† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "Well," said Franz with a sigh, "do as you please my dear viscount, for your arguments are beyond my powers of refutation.† (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)
- But, viscount, since we cannot perform the journey in less than seven or eight hours, do not keep me waiting.† (source)
- Oh, my dear viscount, do talk reason!† (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)
- 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)
- Doubtless, my dear viscount, you will not be taken by force; and seriously, do you wish to break off your engagement?† (source)
- Excessively; only imagine—but do tell me, viscount, whether you really are acquainted with it or no?† (source)
- "Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing-room," said the viscount; "they make the countess ill."† (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)
- "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)
- You are difficult to please, viscount.† (source)
- You are mistaken, my dear viscount.† (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)
- "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)
- "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)
- "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)
- 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)
- "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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "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)
- 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)
- "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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "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)
- I do not know him, viscount.† (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 personage of considerable importance in Paris.† (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)
- 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)
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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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