viscountesses

How silly would it look, incidentally, if the coming modernisation did not feature equal rights for the husbands of viscountesses?

Royal succession is a feminist issue. Or so the men say | Catherine Bennett 2011

And at eight in the morning he would have his breakfast brought in on a tray by a man – servant: the man – servant would unfold his crimson dressing – gown; he would rip his letters open with his long pointed nails and would extract thick white cards of invitation upon which the engraving stood up roughly from duchesses, countesses, viscountesses and Honourable Ladies.

A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

“Who especially has more delightfully hit off the duchesses and viscountesses of the Restoration period!”

Balzac 2003

He says: "Who especially has more delightfully hit off the duchesses and viscountesses of the Restoration period!"

Balzac Frederick Lawton

The peeresses preceded their respective lords -- each rank of the peerage being classed together; that is, the baronesses preceding the barons, the viscountesses the viscounts, and so forth.

Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

He says: "Who especially has more delightfully hit off the duchesses and viscountesses of the Restoration period!"

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

"Well, you are married now, and part and parcel of him, and a wife's duty is to keep her own husband from hussies -- viscountesses or no they can call themselves."

The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903

She had her little narrownesses, to be sure, and was not hail-fellow-well-met with everybody, like him; and did not think very much of giddy little viscountesses with straddling loud-voiced

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

This graceful swarm of sisters of charity was composed of ten duchesses, fifteen marchionesses, and some thirty countesses, viscountesses, and baronesses, at the head of whom was the Queen, who intended to honour the fête by her presence.

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

Outside of the prison were but citoyens and citoyennes; inside of the prison were yet dukes and duchesses, counts and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses; there, behind locks and bars, the aristocracy was represented in its most glorious and high-sounding names.

Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843