How To Use Peeress In A Sentence
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She would then approach the Monarch, curtseying as low as possible "so as almost to kneel and the Queen kisses her on the forehead if she is a peeress or peer's daughter, or extends her hand to be kissed, if the lady is a commoner.
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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
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Her portrait - in peeress' robes with the key of office at her waist - is dated 1705.
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Brown is obviously not terribly impressed by the talent he has available in his own party, as judged by the stories of his offering a number of posts to prominent Lib-Dem peers such as Paddy Ashdown and Lord Carlile; according to press reports he was also keen to offer the health portfolio to the Lib-Dem peeress Rabbi Julia Neuberger.
Another Rebuff for Gordon Brown
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She has exercised power in her own sphere as a peeress in her own right a rare and, for most men of the time, unsettling creature but it is not until she sees the glitter and intrigue at court that she both fully comes to appreciate her place in that world and grows up some.
REVIEW: Devilish by Jo Beverley
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Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment.
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She has exercised power in her own sphere as a peeress in her own right a rare and, for most men of the time, unsettling creature but it is not until she sees the glitter and intrigue at court that she both fully comes …
2007 April 18 | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary
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The fact Broon has had to scour round and replace her with a peeress proves that.
FLINT SHOWS SOME SPARKS
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She's a peeress in her own right , ie not merely by marriage to a peer.
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The Peerage Act 1963 allowed hereditary peers to disclaim their peerages for life, admitted hereditary peeresses in their own right into the house, and gave membership to all peers of Scotland.
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She's a peeress in her own right , is not merely by marriage to a peer.
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Women's groups were her acknowledged loathing whether relations, schoolgirls, peeresses.
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Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment.
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This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
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When Mummy was crowned and all the peeresses put on their coronets it looked wonderful to see arms and coronets hovering in the air and then the arms disappear as if by magic.
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To dedicate all his merits, under the name of love and loyalty, to his fictional peeress Dulcinea...
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This was commissioned by an Anglo-Irish peeress, the dowager Countess of Sandwich, in circumstances to be explained.
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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
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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
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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
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This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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The peeress or daughter of a peer received a kiss from Queen Victoria.
The Court Presentation | Edwardian Promenade
