viscount

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• Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies. Peerless Titles
• Immediately, her eyes sought out the handsome viscount.
• Dundas, created Viscount Melville in 1802, put severe pressure on liberals while conceding some radical demands.
• Viscount Kilgobbin '; various devices of' caprine 'significance, heads, horns, and hoofs, profusely decorating the frame. Lord Kilgobbin
• Thirty gowns each, your highness, ten capes and five habits for both Princess Gayle and the viscountess as well.
• Here the Viscount lay back among his pillows and stared up at the tester of the bed, and his gaze was still directed thitherwards when he spoke: The Amateur Gentleman
• Substantial alterations were carried out by the fourth viscount, who had the front of the house partly stuccoed and the staircase lined with mirrors in imitation of Versailles.
• And once a royal messenger (called a pursuivant-at-arms) came down in person, and carried the great lady to London, and there she stayed many days, and was threatened with many things and great punishments, yea, even to be tried by the Lord Jeffreys for high treason, in resisting the king's order to deliver up her grandchild to its natural guardian -- which was its father, the Viscount Mallerden, now created by royal favour Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility.
• The new viscount, John's cousin, had once been a close friend of Julia's.