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Sentences starting with countess

Countess Cordula, who was on friendly terms with Eva, also emptied the vials of her wrath with all the impetuosity of her nature upon Sir Seitz Siebenburg and the credulity and malice of the people. [10]
Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and in her turn began thinking aloud. [2]
Countess Cordula, now the happy wife of Sir Boemund Altrosen, had also come and again lodged in the Ortlieb house. [10]
Countess Bezukhova turned smiling to the newcomer, and Natasha, following the direction of that look, saw an exceptionally handsome adjutant approaching their box with a self-assured yet courteous bearing. [2]
Countess Mary turned red and then pale, but continued to sit with head bowed and lips compressed and gave her husband no reply. [2]
Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so called Russian type of beauty. [2]
Countess Cordula was not suited for his master. [10]
Countess Cordula was not at home; she, too, had ridden to the forest with the Emperor. [10]
Countess Cordula von Montfort's room faced the east and looked out into the garden. [10]
Countess Mary was jealous of this passion of her husband's and regretted that she could not share it; but she could not understand the joys and vexations he derived from that world, to her so remote and alien. [2]

Sentences ending with countess

But except these, who will ask about the reckless countess? [10]
The leech Otto, to whom the severely wounded Ulrich Vorchtel had been carried, had just left the countess. [10]
It's a burden to him, and Bory's life is only just beginning...." "Surely he will leave something to Boris," said the countess. [2]
The nearer the time came for Petya to return, the more uneasy grew the countess. [2]
As they approached the little castle they saw from the road in the arbour, which was lighted with links, the figure of the countess. [10]
Give it to the countess. [2]
So he had seen aright, and acted wisely not to believe the countess. [10]
Not until he saw from the arbour, whilst the dessert still remained on the table; Cordula riding up on horseback did he cease recapitulating his numerous objections and go to meet the countess. [10]
The von Montfort retinue, which had quarters in the Ortlieb house, was one of the most brilliant and numerous of all, and Biberli's eyes wandered with a look of satisfaction over the gold-mounted sedan chair of the young countess. [10]
Natasha saw by Pierre's animation that his visit had been interesting and that he had much to tell them but dare not say it before the old countess. [2]

Short sentences using countess

The countess wept too. [2]
The countess began to cry. [2]
The countess was playing patience. [2]
Countess Mary followed her. [2]
The countess was crying. [2]
This was the countess. [2]
Countess Mary blushed. [2]

Sentences containing countess two or more times

When they left the table and went as usual to thank the old countess, Countess Mary held out her hand and kissed her husband, and asked him why he was angry with her. [2]
And the whimsical idea came into my mind--we are all so warped by international possibilities--to observe whether she did not walk like a countess (that is, as a countess ought to walk) as she advanced to shake hands with my wife. [4]
If you were a countess you would have to act like a countess. [4]

More example sentences with the word countess in them

I will call you," said the countess in a whisper. [2]
It was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apraksina..." was heard on all sides. [2]
Briefly, then, if you are here for Countess Cordula von Montfort's sake, your errand is vain; she will sleep at Kadolzburg to-night. [10]
I thought they would never go," said the countess, when she had seen her guests out. [2]
But Countess Cordula withdrew hers with visible dislike, saying in a tone of chilling repulse: "Remember me to your wife, Sir Knight. [10]
The countess looked with timid horror at her son's eager, excited face as he said this. [2]
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and velvet gown. [2]
The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
Pierre exchanged glances with Countess Mary and Nicholas (Natasha he never lost sight of) and smiled happily. [2]
Alone, in a window of the castle, sits a lady at her work, who might be the countess; only, I am sorry, there is no countess, nothing but a frau, in that old feudal dwelling. [4]
Nicholas' letter in which he mentioned Princess Mary had elicited, in her presence, joyous comments from the countess, who saw an intervention of Providence in this meeting of the princess and Nicholas. [2]
In the evening, when Prince Andrew had left, the countess went up to Natasha and whispered: "Well, what? [2]
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? [2]
At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
Our dear countess was too clever with Vera," said the count. [2]
Clearly, the thing was to go on as before, keep his marriage secret, meet the Countess, apparently accede to all the Duke proposed, and wait--and wait. [11]
In this room was the body of Countess Aurora von Konigsmark, famed as the most beautiful woman of her time. [10]
The young countess was challenging his attention still more boldly, tossing her head back so impetuously that the turban-like roll on her hair, spite of the broad ribbon that fastened it under her chin, almost fell on the floor. [10]
Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time. [2]
The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. [2]
But after her visit the old countess spoke of her several times a day. [2]
He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed. [2]
The countess took up a position in one of the front rows of that crowd. [2]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
You have quite turned his head, I can see that...." As she said this the countess looked round at her daughter. [2]
The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. [2]
One day he took the countess to a Roman Catholic church, where she knelt down before the altar to which she was led. [2]
He was talking to the countess, and Natasha sat down beside a little chess table with Sonya, thereby inviting Prince Andrew to come too. [2]
Had Eva's aversion to the countess been justified, and was she about to take advantage of her unpleasant position to jeer at her? [10]
Sonya went up to the countess and, kneeling down, kissed her hand. [2]
The countess began to soothe Natasha, who after first listening to her mother's words, suddenly interrupted her: "Leave off, Mamma! [2]
Besides, he longed to see the twins who resembled him so closely, and of whom Countess Cordula had said that she hoped they would not be like their father. [10]
The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. [2]
The count wanted to leave long ago, but the countess won't on any account leave Moscow till her son returns. [2]
I shall speak to him myself," said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this little Natasha as grown up. [2]
The countess tried to frown, but could not. [2]
When she wanted to be agitated, Nicholas and his health would be the pretext, and when she felt a need to speak spitefully, the pretext would be Countess Mary. [2]
Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles. [2]
You have still time to get away...." "I can't think what the servants are about," said the countess, turning to her husband. [2]
The countess knew this, but what it might be she did not know, and this alarmed and tormented her. [2]
Stillness reigned in this chamber, and Els scarcely had occasion to dread much disturbance, for the countess had been strictly forbidden to enter the sufferer's room. [10]
Sing me something," they heard the countess say. [2]
Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters. [2]
I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
He drove home the truth with bare unvarnished power--the wrong to Guida, the wrong to the Countess, the wrong to the Dukedom of Bercy, to that honour which should belong to those in high estate. [11]
The countess watched the things being packed, was dissatisfied with everything, was constantly in pursuit of Petya who was always running away from her, and was jealous of Natasha with whom he spent all his time. [2]
He wrote from the province of Voronezh where he had been sent to procure remounts, but that letter did not set the countess at ease. [2]
Sonya, Dolokhov, and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree Natasha. [2]
Sonya was always the first excuse Countess Mary found for feeling irritated. [2]
Not the courtliness, the easy simplicity of the old-school gentleman, in whose presence the milkmaid was as much at her ease as the countess, but something far finer than this. [4]
We called up the dowager countess, Comyn's mother, and Carlisle broke the news to her, mercifully lightening me of a share of the blame. [9]
He belonged to the Dominican order, and was the confessor of the old countess and Frau Rosalinde. [10]
The news of the day in Petersburg was the illness of Countess Bezukhova. [2]
The grey-haired countess, the cousin went on, had passed from one attack of convulsions into another, and when he approached her had shrieked the words "ingratitude" and "base reward" so shrilly at him, in various tones, that they were still ringing in his ears. [10]
The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property. [2]
Natasha laughed, and the countess too smiled slightly. [2]
Was he inviting the countess to dance again? [10]
Only Natasha and the countess remained in the room. [2]
His mother was the Countess of Carnstadt. [11]
In this letter the countess also mentioned that Prince Andrew was among the wounded traveling with them; his state was very critical, but the doctor said there was now more hope. [2]
It was said that the dark-blue sleeve of a woman's robe which he wore on his helmet in the jousts belonged to the Countess von Montfort. [10]
The latter understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. [2]
On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown. [2]
Eva was pleased that her new friend did not even vouchsafe the young countess an answer. [10]
The countess reported that after her friend's father had been taken back to the watch-tower a few hours before, she had found him in excellent spirits. [10]
He ruled them strictly until they had proved that Countess Cordula's wish had been fulfilled and, resembling their unfortunate father only in figure and beauty, strength and courage, they had grown into valiant, honourable knights. [10]
At the second story a bracket, bearing an image of the Madonna, had been built out on one side, and on the other the bow window from which old Countess Rotterbach had looked down into the street. [10]
The countess was still unwell and unable to travel but it was impossible to wait for her recovery. [2]
Besides the twenty stabled here, eighteen were put in the brewery in the Hundsgasse, and eight belong to Countess Cordula. [10]
The countess and Sonya cried from pity for Natasha and because he was no more. [2]
She had felt so secure in her innocence, and the countess had interceded for her so cleverly that, absorbed by anxieties concerning Eva, Cordula, and her mother, she had already half forgotten the disagreeable incident. [10]
There was one small countess, with an iron ring in her snout and hardly any hair on her back, that was the devil for perversity. [5]
The countess was sitting with her companion Belova, playing grand-patience as usual, when Pierre and Natasha came into the drawing room with parcels under their arms. [2]
The countess was sitting up in bed and speaking softly. [2]
After a short silence the countess spoke again but this time no one replied. [2]
The old countess sighed as she looked at them; Sonya was always getting frightened lest she should be in the way and tried to find excuses for leaving them alone, even when they did not wish it. [2]
Is it true she's in love with that..." "Yes, just fancy..." At that moment Nicholas and Countess Mary came in. [2]
Yet even when she heard voices close by the house, among which she distinguished Countess Cordula's and--if she was not mistaken--her father's, she resisted the impulse to rise from her knees. [10]
The countess, when she had identified them and laughed at their costumes, went into the drawing room. [2]
The countess said she had been unable to close her eyes on account of his moaning, and at Mytishchi she moved into a worse hut simply to be farther away from the wounded man. [2]
The countess had seldom been so angry with anyone as she was with Sonya. [2]
What would have seemed difficult or even impossible to another woman did not cause the least embarrassment to Countess Bezukhova, who evidently deserved her reputation of being a very clever woman. [2]
Dimmler, who had seated himself beside the countess, listened with closed eyes. [2]
The countess, Madame Schoss, and Sonya undressed hastily and lay down. [2]
At Weinsberg he saw Count Helfenstein rush upon the spears, and when the noble countess was driven past him to Heilbronn in the dung-cart, he tossed his cap in the air with the rest. [10]
The old countess sat with a blissful yet sad smile and with tears in her eyes, occasionally shaking her head. [2]
When I overtook Sandy she was horrified, and said it was in the last degree indelicate to drag a countess by her train. [5]
In the next room sat the count and countess respectfully conversing with the prior, who was calling on them as old acquaintances and benefactors of the monastery. [2]
When he finally reported that he himself and the ladies must leave the house and the city, Countess Rotterbach, with a scornful glance at her deeply humiliated son-in-law, exclaimed, "This is what comes of throwing one's self away! [10]
So the countess remained in the country, and the count, taking Sonya and Natasha with him, went to Moscow at the end of January. [2]
After giving several recitations, Mademoiselle George left, and Countess Bezukhova asked her visitors into the ballroom. [2]
She had just received the Bishop of Hildesheim, the Prince of Savoy, and the Countess Tassis, but gave each only a brief audience, for the entrance of the conductor of the orchestra had not escaped her attention. [10]
If it was really good fortune in love that snatched the zecchins from my purse yesterday: "Then," cried Biberli eagerly, "to-night is the very time, ere Countess Cordula teaches you to forget what troubles you, to win them back. [10]
Nicholas' letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she did not let it out of her hands. [2]
Only by a rare glance exchanged with a sad smile between Nicholas, Pierre, Natasha, and Countess Mary was the common understanding of her condition expressed. [2]
Eva kept her promise, after Els, who wanted to see the Countess von Montfort, had satisfied her concerning the welfare of the nuns and promised to go to rest herself as soon as possible. [10]
This expression irritated Prince Andrew, and in a determined, ringing, and unpleasant tone he continued: "I have received a refusal from Countess Rostova and have heard reports of your brother-in-law having sought her hand, or something of that kind. [2]
Still slapping his pockets, he kissed the hand of the countess who entered the room and glanced uneasily around, evidently expecting Natasha, who had left off singing but had not yet come into the drawing room. [2]
A third with pins in her mouth was running about between the countess and Sonya, and a fourth held the whole of the gossamer garment up high on one uplifted hand. [2]
While conversing with Pierre, Natasha heard a man's voice in Countess Bezukhova's box and something told her it was Kuragin. [2]

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