How To Use peeress In A Sentence
- This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
- The peeress or daughter of a peer received a kiss from Queen Victoria. The Court Presentation | Edwardian Promenade
- Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be. The Hand of Ethelberta
- The Queen's litter is depicted as followed by six ladies riding upon palfreys, and by three chariots each followed similarly: these would be the peeresses and ladies of the household.
- With the introduction of life peerages in 1958 (which also allowed peeresses in their own right to sit for the first time), the hereditary element in the House (while still a theoretical majority) declined in its daily attendance.
- In the House of Lords they had to stand in a kind of gangway, and I have heard a venerable man tell how a certain distinguished peeress, who had to pass along this gangway when she went to hear the debates, used deliberately to brush against the reporters as she did so, and knock the note-books out of their hands. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
- This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
- Venus flanked a somewhat prim peeress by Hoppner; a landscape that smacked of Gainsborough was the companion of a dauby moonlight, that must have figured in the last exhibition; and insipid Roman matrons by Henrietta Temple A Love Story
- I mind one super-tunic she gave me, but half worn, "-- this was said impressively, for a garment only _half worn_ was considered a fit gift from one peeress to another --" of blue damask, all set with silver buttons, and broidered with ladies 'heads along the border. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
- Iswar Chandra, the brilliant young barrister-at-law had discoursed to a philanthropic peeress upon the social future of his native land, whilst an admiring circle of auditors hung upon his words. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
