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In the British peerage system, individuals are ennobled -- not families.
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Her husband was a man whose peerage was treated as the convenient afterthought.† (source)
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"Actually he's sixteenth in the peerage," Sim said matter-of-factly.† (source)
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We in the peerage are forgiving.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal industries.† (source)
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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)
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"King Lot," said he, "is simply a member of your peerage and landed royalty.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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—or from Fitzalan and De Vere, her maternal grandfather having had a cousin in the peerage?† (source)
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He is thirty-three years old; I looked in the Peerage.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Photography, reproduced by the half-tone process, has made me familiar with the appearance of the daughters of the English peerage; and I can honestly say that I would have sold the lot, faces, dowries, clothes, titles, and all, for a smile from this woman.† (source)
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