"Viscountess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... word that your peer is not among them, and the leader would be enchanted with you. Come, suppose a little fatal accident to Monsieur—may he not suck poison off his paint brush or cut an artery with his sculptor's chisel? And, after a sojourn at Bravitz, you might return to Paris a viscountess—a countess, perhaps, and rule in a pretty court ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas
... changes had taken place since then! Claudia was a viscountess; he was a successful barrister; their love a troubled dream of ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... to the story. In 1660, William Harrison, Gent., was steward or 'factor' to the Viscountess Campden, in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, a single-streeted town among the Cotswold hills. The lady did not live in Campden House, whose owner burned it in the Great Rebellion, to spite the rebels; as Castle Tirrim ...
— Historical Mysteries • Andrew Lang
... a good girl, after all! You'll stand by your father, in spite of all the House of Peers! I'm glad to see you hold up your head so bravely. So you did fancy being a Viscountess, did you! but it is not a ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Blessington had the autobiography in her possession for weeks, and confessed to having copied every line of it. Moore remonstrated, and she committed her copy to the flames, but did not tell him that her sister, Mrs. Home Purvis, now Viscountess of Canterbury, had also made a copy! . . . From the quantity of copy I have seen,—and others were more in the way of falling in with it than myself,—I surmise that at least half a dozen copies were made, and of these five are now in existence. Some particular ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... Claverhouse memoirs of, 16 note Viscountess of, second marriage and death, 105 note story of, and Col. ...
— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
... not go to town from Easter to Lammastide, as other noble ladies do?' asked the younger girl, rather disappointed at this aspect of a viscountess's life. ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy |
