How To Use Viscount In A Sentence
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Immediately, her eyes sought out the handsome viscount.
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Viscount Kilgobbin '; various devices of' caprine 'significance, heads, horns, and hoofs, profusely decorating the frame.
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Thirty gowns each, your highness, ten capes and five habits for both Princess Gayle and the viscountess as well.
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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:
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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.
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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
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But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility.
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The new viscount, John's cousin, had once been a close friend of Julia's.
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Her name danced in illustrious company; here were dukes and earls and viscounts; a sprinkling of the foreign element: begums, emirs, the nation's guests.
Half A Chance
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He was created baronet in 1903, baron in 1905, and viscount in 1917.
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Thanks to the major and minor arcana of good behaviour set out in the book, I am at no loss as to the correct order of precedence as to whether a marchioness or a viscount should be led into dinner first.
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Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
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My duty is to the people of my viscounty, to guide them in peace and defend them in war.
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The viscount's concerns are shared by many in the city of Glasgow, particularly the city council, which took the unprecedented step some four decades ago of taking ownership of the building to ensure its survival.
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Both field marshals were later made viscounts.
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Mountbatten's title was therefore a courtesy one until he was ennobled in 1946 as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.
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The Scottish aristocracy, made up of dukes, marquesses, earldoms and viscounts, still in this age of post-deference hold significant power and wealth.
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Viscountess Farnsworth resumed her beaming countenance after her wad of cash was safely stowed inside her reticule.
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Viscount Astor, a hardworking and professional hereditary Peer.
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The viscountess and the countess had very different, simultaneous reactions to this statement of Lady Gwyneth's.
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`Oh yes, one other thing," the viscount said, his voice wavering.
CORMORANT
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The remainder was shared out among the viscounties of Limoges, Comborn, Turenne and Ventadour.
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Six members are hereditary peers: the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Wemyss, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Airlie, the Viscount of Arbuthnott, and the Earl of Crawford.
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Dundas, created Viscount Melville in 1802, put severe pressure on liberals while conceding some radical demands.
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Both the reeve of the lakeshore and Viscount Olvan Elktor sent out large search parties, but they found nothing.
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However, much of the western lands of the viscounty were occupied.
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He became Viscount Dunlo in 1801 and inherited the earldom from his father, the first Earl of Clancarty, in 1803.
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Though the Lords temporal – royal peers, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons – were allotted certain benches according to their rank, they only sat thus during the opening of Parliament.
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Edward, tell Freddie how nice it would be to be a viscount.
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Both the reeve of the lakeshore and Viscount Olvan Elktor sent out large search parties, but they found nothing.
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To the old title of earl was added dukedoms which were at first reserved for the royal family, marquisates, baronies, and viscountcies. By the end of Henry VI's reign the peerage had grown to about 60.
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About the King's follower, the Viscount Castlewood -- orphan of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks of bravery, old and in exile -- his kinsmen I suppose should be silent; nor if this patriarch fell down in his cups, call fie upon him, and fetch passers-by to laugh at his red face and white hairs.
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Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
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The Viscount Goderich who served just short of 5 months from 1827, he resigned from office because he lacked support amongst colleagues
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Have someone make a call to the viscountess of Liesende, tell her to fetch the Princess Gayle in time for dinner.
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There will also be an evening of Poetry, Prose and Music for a Summer Evening in the picturesque gardens of Burnt Norton House at the kind invitation of the viscount and viscountess Sandon.
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‘In my time, I've known dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and other members of Britain's House of Lords and none of them had the contempt for the masses one routinely hears from America's coastal elites.’
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What happened to the business about his taking the Viscount's passports?
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In time the viscountess became known as the godmother of the ballet, and she, more than any other person, pushed the career of Raymundo de Larrain.
The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys
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We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
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Her children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her side.
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Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
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Beatrix and her brother Frank, now the fifth viscount, are ardent Jacobites, and Esmond becomes involved with them in a plot to restore James Edward Stuart, the old pretender, to the throne on the death of Queen Anne.
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We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
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The viscountess returned to her chambers where her own Abigail attended her.
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Hailed for saving his country from invasion, Duncan earned the title Viscount Duncan of Camperdown.
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On Aspinall's books were five dukes, eight viscounts and 17 earls.
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The viscount disembarked its passagers at the airport.
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After some confusion, the viscount and his followers mounted and galloped off in pursuit.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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A direct descendant of Henry VII, Viscount Mountgarret was Eton and Sandhurst educated and a former captain in the Irish Guards.
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The floor was draped in protective white sheeting, and the viscount's wife stood in the middle of it proudly, paint-brush dripping on her bare feet.
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
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And one year later Ramon Berenguer strengthened his ties to Guillem Ramon by confirming his guardianship of the heir to the viscounty of Bas.
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We deduced from their dusty condition, that this particular croquet set hadn't been used since the old viscount's time, and, as we had just done the lawn that day, it was natural that we would put the set to use.
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The earls and viscounts had claimed their expulsion would amount to a severance from the English past.
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The earls and viscounts had claimed their expulsion would amount to a severance from the English past.
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Viscountess Mourne was small, with a neat, well-proportioned body.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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He is called the vampyre Flood, and he didn't say, but I think he is descended from European royalty — a viscount or a discount or one of those.
You Suck
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There will also be an evening of Poetry, Prose and Music for a Summer Evening in the picturesque gardens of Burnt Norton House at the kind invitation of the viscount and viscountess Sandon.
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At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron.
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The territorial power of the English magnates (the barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes in ascending order of status) was crucial to the peace of the realm and the success of royal government.
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He was made a viscount in 1946, and was Governor-General of Canada until 1952, when he became Churchill's Minister of Defence.
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Despite the fall of the wealth of Britain's aristocracy over the last century, the titled still have a heavy presence with the Queen, 10 dukes, seven marquesses, 19 earls, seven viscounts and 24 lords still leaping in the list.
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Knowl, so called in this county, but he had many other places, was of a very ancient lineage, who had refused a baronetage often, and it was said even a viscounty, being of a proud and defiant spirit, and thinking themselves higher in station and purer of blood than two-thirds of the nobility into whose ranks it was said, they had been invited to enter.
Uncle Silas
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To the left lay the viscountess 's apartments - a light, airy sitting room flanking a large dressing room and bathing chamber.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron.
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
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Viscount Bagwig, our excellent ambassador, paid her marked attention.
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We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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But the idea of coaxing Viscount Rawleigh down to Cornwall died a swift death.
Unforgiven
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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.
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In the Middle Ages, Saint-Cirq Lapopie was the main town of one of the four viscounties that made up Quercy.
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
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He was the son of an Irish viscount and succeeded to the title and the Ulster estates at the age of 6.
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A message for Jane Boleyn, the Viscountess Rochford?" he will ask, looking at my plain kirtle and the dust on the hem of my gown, my hand stained with dirt from the London milestone. next »
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Her stepfather is Viscount Astor and she is a direct descendant of Nell Gywn, mistress to Charles II.
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The Dawnays, notable soldiers, were a cadet branch of The Viscounts Downe, and set Whitfield on its course of wonderful house parties for all the field sports.
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It came in a specially made box of American walnut with ebony lipping and purple velvet lining - designed by Viscount Linley, the queen's nephew.
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Never again in Britain will someone have the right to make laws which affect the lives of ordinary families solely because their ancestor was a duke, an earl or a viscount.
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But then, if they did anything else they would risk incurring the displeasure of Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
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The picture was consigned by trustees of Viscount FitzHarris and was estimated at ￡8-10 million.
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Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757 – 1844): Prime Minister 1801 – 1804.
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In the mid 19th century it was home to patriotic Viscount Palmerston, the oldest man ever to become Prime Minister.
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Upon the death of Charles, the third viscount without issue in 1739, the title of baronet devolved to Charles, elder son of Dr. William Graham, some time Dean of Carlisle, fourth son of Sir George, the second baronet; but it was not, we believe, for some years claimed, nor is any account of this family inserted in the baronetages of 1741 or 1773.
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Thanks to the major and minor arcana of good behaviour set out in the book, I am at no loss as to the correct order of precedence as to whether a marchioness or a viscount should be led into dinner first.
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And you'll be a viscountess, with maids to answer to your every whim.
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Nicknamed ‘Bully’ Bolingbroke, the viscount was a famous figure in the world of breeding and racing, both as an owner and as a reckless gambler.
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The territorial power of the English magnates (the barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes in ascending order of status) was crucial to the peace of the realm and the success of royal government.
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Also on Park Lane was Londonderry House, the residence of the Marquesses of Londonderry (pronounced “Lundundry”), the Anglo-Irish family of which Robert, Viscount Castlereagh, is the most well-known.
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On returning to England in 1902 he was created Viscount Kitchener and was appointed commander in chief in India.
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The wife of a marquess is a marchioness, the wife of an earl is a countess earl is the British equivalent of count, the wife of a viscount is a viscountess, the wife of a baron is a baroness.
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Six members are hereditary peers: the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Wemyss, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Airlie, the Viscount of Arbuthnott, and the Earl of Crawford.
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The only thing 'gold-plated' about British pensions is the gold-plated BS that's being spread about them by self-serving but hardly self-made billionaire heirs like ... well, like "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
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In 1911 he was created viscount and he became lord chancellor in 1912.
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But the other bishops have place above all the barons of the realm, because they hold their bishopricks of the king per baroniam; but they give place to viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes.
Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
