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Examples

  • The title Viscount Covington actually belongs to Terence.

    Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994

  • The title Viscount Covington actually belongs to Terence.

    Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994

  • Even the Duke's 18-year-old American-born son Alexander, who has the title Viscount Mandeville, told this paper of his shock at learning of his and his sister's illegitimacy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • A comms exercise today revealed only 1/15 probationers know that the ’s’ in Viscount is silent.

    Animal Rights « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • “I take it you are referring to Viscount Humbolt,” the valet said quietly.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • “I take it you are referring to Viscount Humbolt,” the valet said quietly.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • “I take it you are referring to Viscount Humbolt,” the valet said quietly.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • The only evidence against you is the word of Viscount Lowden and Lieutenant Weston, both of whom, it would seem, have a personal ax to grind here.

    The Charade Laura Lee Guhrke 2000

  • The next day she was eastbound, and after a month's testing in Viscount Melville Sound she entered Halifax harbour on November 8 to honour her Canadian icebreaker escort.

    S.S. Manhattan's Northwest Passage Voyage—Observations by Canada's Representative 1970

  • Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in.

    Madame Bovary 2003

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