"These galas," says the historian Villani, who was going through Flanders at this very time, "were the last whereof the French knew aught in our time, for Fortune, who till then had shown such favor to the King of France, on a sudden turned her wheel, and the cause thereof lay in the unrighteous captivity of the innocent maid of Flanders, and in the treason whereof the Count of Flanders and his sons had been the victims."

Frenchmen drilled the Russian armies of Peter the Great, a Huguenot Count became commander-in-chief in Denmark, and Schomberg led the army of Brandenburg, and afterwards that of England.

Your count, ef I ain't mistakened, is jes' thirty-three dollars, even money.

John Egmont, an old chronicler, says that the counts of Holland were "a sword in the flanks of the bishops of Utrecht.

It will be recalled that a certain Count of Hapsburg had become Emperor of Germany, and when we say Germany, we include Austria, which had become the home of the Hapsburgs.

The count's was a loyal attachment, doing nothing but honor to him who felt it, and to the queen who inspired it; and it was marked by a permanence which distinguishes no devotion but that which is pure and noble, as he showed ten years later by the well-planned and courageous, though unsuccessful, efforts which he made for the deliverance of the queen and all her family.

But men do say the Count of Charolois is a mighty lord, and the alliance with Burgundy will be more profitable to staple and mart.

The Count of Chateau Noir is a hard man, even at the best time he was a hard man.

Later, with the growth of the feudal system, the counts became not merely royal officers, but hereditary rulers, with coronets and arms and an assumption of absolute authority in their counties.

When the host was gathered together, the count of the footmen was four hundred thousand armed men, besides one hundred and eighty thousand riders on horses.

Though the Count of Poitiers is the first troubadour known to us, the relatively high excellence of his technique, as regards stanza construction and rime, and the capacity of his language for expressing lofty and refined ideas in poetical form (in spite of his occasional lapses into coarseness), entirely preclude the supposition that he was the first troubadour in point of time.

" All the while that the Count of Montfort was a prisoner in the tower of the Louvre, the countess his wife strove for his cause with the same indefatigable energy.

I knew the count was a dangerous enemy, who would not hesitate to employ murder if necessary to gain his ends, but I was determined to re-establish the identity of Laura.

The crusaders often found much difficulty in maintaining a force adequate to conduct their operations after the first energy of the invasion had spent itself, and had the Count of Toulouse been an energetic and vigorous character, he might have been able to reverse the ultimate issue of the crusade.

The Count had been a politician in his youth, and his position entailed a passive continuance of the policy he had actively advocated in earlier days.

He come away while the Count was playin' his fiddle.

The Earls of Flanders and Blois were engaged in the holy war: the Count of Champagne was an infant, and under the guardianship of Philip: the duchy of Britany, enraged at the murder of their prince, vigorously promoted all his measures: and the general defection of John's vassals made every enterprise easy and successful against him.

"Ef I'd a-knowed that yew had more lives 'n my Maltese cat," Samuel was muttering over Abe by this time, "I'd" Count, count went Captain Darby's fingers.

The count had also been a member of the society, and had betrayed its secret.

The names that these newspapers call us Are hardest of all to surmount, They say Mayor HALL may o'erhaul us; He claims that our count is no 'count.

The reason is, that the young count over there is an ardent hunter and has enlarged his stock of game, so that his stags and roes come out of the forest like sheep and completely ruin the product of my toil and sweat.

"'I am daughter of Don Gomez, Count of Gormaz was he hight,

Moreover, the count was her partner, and a worse one could hardly be conceived.

Early in 1838 a certain Count of Monte Cristo became a great figure in the life of Paris.

Counting every cent you spend is a safe plan, but I don't know that this trip will pan out much of a business proposition.