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the members of upper nobility in Great Britain considered as a groupor:
the title or rank of upper nobility
- In the British peerage system, individuals are ennobled — not families.
- 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.Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
- A baronetcy was spoken of with confidence; a peerage was frequently mentioned.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- I believe, according to the peerage, it is ten years, but ten years with Monmouth must have been like eternity, with time thrown in.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 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.Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
- He is thirty-three years old; I looked in the Peerage.Henry James -- The American
- And what are his claims to the peerage?Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal industries.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- While she was gone to cry her farewells over the pork, I gave that whole peerage away to the servants.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- 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.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- "King Lot," said he, "is simply a member of your peerage and landed royalty.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Her husband was a man whose peerage was treated as the convenient afterthought.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- —or from Fitzalan and De Vere, her maternal grandfather having had a cousin in the peerage?Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- We in the peerage are forgiving.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- 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.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Her husband was really deserving of her; independent of his peerage, his wealth, and his attachment, being to a precision the most charming young man in the world.Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- He came home and looked out his history in the Peerage: he introduced his name into his daily conversation; he bragged about his Lordship to his daughters.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- 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.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Hence his peerage.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
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