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  • That spice, and more understated raw oak flavors are on display in Comtesse Therese 2005 Hungarian Oak Merlot ($18), an extremely approachable, enjoyable red.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • Strether noticed her card on the table -- her coronet and her "Comtesse" -- and the imagination was sharp in him of certain private adjustments in Sarah's mind.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • When Lucie was nearly 50 -- by then she was known as the Comtesse de la Tour du Pin -- she was ready to write a memoir of an extraordinary, tumultuous life.

    Aristocrats on the Run 2009

  • The very year which preceded the war she had annoyed the Grande-Duchesse Vladimir by calling the Comtesse of

    Time Regained 2003

  • "Comtesse," she said, "you are fresh from the colony of Louisiana, in which we are all so deeply interested; tell us something about your life in St. Louis, and how you found your Spanish rulers."

    The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

  • "Comtesse," he called, softly, "won't you come down and tell me when the post goes?"

    The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903

  • She had never, he was sure, sat with a "Comtesse" before, and such was the specimen of that class he had been keeping to play on her.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • "Comtesse," said Antony, looking at the clock, "there is one good hour before the arrivals by the last train can possibly get here.

    The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903

  • "Comtesse," he said, and his eyes swam, "fiendish little temptress, put up that hair.

    The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903

  • "Comtesse," Antony wrote, "you know I am thinking of you always.

    The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903

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