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  • He and the Countess look at each other for some time; then she breaks the silence_.] _Countess_ -- I hope you are plucky enough.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Did you know that Countess is two points higher than a Lord?

    Green Acres Minisode – My Mother The Countess - The Retroist 2010

  • The only royalty this blogger bows to, The Countess, is guest posting at The Deadly Vixens under her pen-name Elizabeth Black.

    The sexy undead and other literary notes 2008

  • Further, the title of countess is legally bestowed if a female is the sole heir, which gives Lillian Boudine the title of Countess of Ashwood and all the responsibilities and entitlements that entails.

    The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

  • Further, the title of countess is legally bestowed if a female is the sole heir, which gives Lillian Boudine the title of Countess of Ashwood and all the responsibilities and entitlements that entails.

    The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

  • The only royalty this blogger bows to, The Countess, is guest posting at The Deadly Vixens under her pen-name Elizabeth Black.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • She will now sing a requiem which I wrote for a play of mine called The Countess Cathleen, but omitted in some re-writing of the play.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • Splatter Beach also stars Erika Smith, who I am obsessed with much like the MST3K robots are obsessed with Kim Cattrall, ever since I saw her in Countess Dracula.

    Splatter Beach (DVD Review) « Skid Roche 2007

  • And if this disdainful dame, as he termed the Countess, should comply with the request of her husband, Varney, her pretended husband, must needs become so situated with respect to her, that there was no knowing where his audacity might be bounded perhaps not till circumstances enabled him to obtain a triumph, which he thought of with a mixture of fiendish feelings, in which revenge for her previous scorn was foremost and predominant.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Satanic hunt, with intervals of dying sweetness, during which the painted skeleton they called the Countess declared that she certainly heard a nightingale warbling in the moonlight.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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