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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Allie Byrne gives an enjoyable performance as the cool countess who is attracted to Viola now known as Caesario.
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Few people watching the tearful, scruffily-dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess .
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Now she knew why he was consorting with a countess .
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The story concerns a wealthy countess who creates a fictional fianc e to avoid the fellows hitting on her.
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The wife of an earl is a countess , and if that earl dies his wife becomes the Dowager Lady Blank.
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There was only a call from Titi, the resident countess , inviting him for cocktails that afternoon.
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They, together with the custody of the young earl, were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control.