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Example sentences for: countess
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The Countess Stauffenberg moved in various artistic circles, befriending Rainer Maria Rilke, among others; it was through her connections that her sons met the poet Stefan George.
Swift's “Meditation upon a Broomstick,” for instance, impressed the Countess of Stanford as deeply pious instead of hilariously parodic.
Countess Constance Markievicz led a band of rebels to occupy buildings around St. Stephen’s Green.
First stop, off a side road to Fusina, is Palladio’s La Malcontenta (1571), to which a too-flighty Venetian countess was sent to pine, malcontentedly, in exquisite isolation on the canal.
At the southern tip, half hidden in the trees, is Schinkel’s Swiss Cottage, but the island’s principal curiosity is the fake ruin Schloß Pfaueninsel, built in 1797 as a hideaway for Friedrich Wilhelm II and his lover, the Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau.