Sample Sentences forpeerage (auto-selected)
-
•
Her husband was a man whose peerage was treated as the convenient afterthought.† (source)
-
•
We in the peerage are forgiving.† (source)
-
•
A wireless set had now been added to Nanny Hawkins' small assembly of pleasures—the rosary, the Peerage with its neat brown-paper wrapping protecting the red and gold covers, the photographs, and holiday souvenirs—on her table.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
"Actually he's sixteenth in the peerage," Sim said matter-of-factly.† (source)
-
•
When I walked into his office on Monday afternoon, General Bentley Durrell looked like the last surviving member of an elite but critically endangered peerage.† (source)
-
•
I believe, according to the peerage, it is ten years, but ten years with Monmouth must have been like eternity, with time thrown in.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
And what are his claims to the peerage?† (source)
-
•
Mrs. Cadwallader was strong on the intended creation of peers: she had it for certain from her cousin that Truberry had gone over to the other side entirely at the instigation of his wife, who had scented peerages in the air from the very first introduction of the Reform question, and would sign her soul away to take precedence of her younger sister, who had married a baronet.† (source)
-
•
A secretary made report that forasmuch as the late King had provided in his will for conferring the ducal degree upon the Earl of Hertford and raising his brother, Sir Thomas Seymour, to the peerage, and likewise Hertford's son to an earldom, together with similar aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering and confirming of these honours, and that meantime, the late King not having granted, in writing, estates suitable to the support of these dignities, the Council, knowing his private wishes in that regard, had thought proper to grant to Seymour '500 pound lands,' and to Hertford's son '800 poun† (source)
-
•
At Lady Sligo's I remember pressing some spruce boy to tell me how life was lived in the peerage; whether Garters were taken seriously.† (source)
-
•
A baronetcy was spoken of with confidence; a peerage was frequently mentioned.† (source)
-
•
"I looked for a peerage for you, Pitt," she said (the brother-in-law again turned red).† (source)
-
•
Martin was astonished by the familiarity; he remembered that she had once gone to a charity ball in Zenith but he had not known that she was so intimate with the peerage.† (source)
-
•
Hence his peerage.† (source)
-
•
We haven't got peerage and social climbing to occupy us much, and decent people do not take interest in politics or elderly people in sport.† (source)
-
•
He was not to be numbered among the aldermen—that Peerage of burghers—as he had expected to be, and the consciousness of this soured him to-day.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)