All 28 Uses of
viscount
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Would fain marry Roxane to a certain sorry fellow, one Monsieur de Valvert, a viscount—and—accommodating!†
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- 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!†
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- CHRISTIAN (who is watching and listening, starts on hearing this name): The Viscount!†
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- De Guiche, the viscount, the marquises, have all disappeared behind the curtain to take their places on the benches placed on the stage.†
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- THE VISCOUNT DE VALVERT (shrugging his shoulders): Swaggerer!†
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- THE VISCOUNT: No one?†
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- THE VISCOUNT (laughing): Ha!†
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- THE VISCOUNT: What do you mean?†
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- DE GUICHE (trying to draw away the dismayed viscount): Come away, Viscount!†
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- DE GUICHE (trying to draw away the dismayed viscount): Come away, Viscount!†
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- THE VISCOUNT (choking with rage): Hear his arrogance!†
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- THE VISCOUNT: But, Sir... CYRANO: I wear no gloves?†
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- THE VISCOUNT: Base scoundrel!†
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- CYRANO (taking off his hat, and bowing as if the viscount had introduced himself): Ah?†
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- THE VISCOUNT (angrily): Buffoon!†
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- THE VISCOUNT (who was going away, turns back): What on earth is the fellow saying now?†
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- THE VISCOUNT: What ails you?†
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- THE VISCOUNT (drawing his sword): Good!†
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- THE VISCOUNT (contemptuously): Poet!†
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- THE VISCOUNT: A ballade?†
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- 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!†
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- 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!†
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- 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.†
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- THE VISCOUNT: No!†
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- THE VISCOUNT: What may that be, an if you please?†
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- The viscount staggers†
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- The viscount's friends hold him up and bear him away.†
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- LE BRET: Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche, The Viscount, Baro, the Academy... CYRANO: Enough!†
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Definition:
(in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count;
or: a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
or: a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron