In copying from Peer Gynt the portrait of one race, I had it in my mind to paint the portrait of a second.
Mr. Gosse entreated the author of Brand and Peer Gynt not to abandon poetry, but Ibsen followed his destiny.
He rendered full justice to the sombre grandeur of Brand and the dazzling fancy of Peer Gynt.
Peer Gynt's old mother is about to meet her end, and she is seized with violent tremors.
Peer Gynt sells idols to the Chinese and Bibles to the missionaries; this second transaction redeeming the first.
Look out, Maggie--peer out, woman, and see if ye can see Robin coming.
We thought it best to avoid the public roads after passing our pickets, so kept to the fields and woods, we cautiously moving along, stopping every now and then to listen and peer through the darkness for some signs of life.
They were only permitted to peer through the bars of the great iron fence that then surrounded the grounds.
There was much scope for meditation looking at "Peer Gynt" at Berlin in 1921.
But in vain did I peer through my telescope across the dingy flat in front; not a vestige of a horn was to be seen, although in several places we came upon impressions of their track.
The materials for writing were soon furnished, although Lord Sherbrooke declared, that were he in Wilton's situation, he would let the proud peer take his own course, as he had shown himself so ungrateful for previous services.
The few women then in the kraal stood on tiptoe, trying to peer over the heads and shoulders of the armed men.
A dismal jest and worthy the day and the hour," rejoined the other, lifting a corner of the sail to peer out.
For a long time she did not move, dreading to peer from the bunk, lest she see a thing that would remind her of the tragedy.
Lawler started, and his eyes narrowed with suspicion as he looked at the door--it seemed that he was trying to peer through it.
As Givens stood, trying to peer around him, the light spluttered and went out, plunging the cabin into a darkness but little relieved by the dull, red flames in the fireplace.
With a bound Lawler tore the door open and stood, leaning against the terrific wind, trying to peer out into the white smother that shrieked around him.
Judge Samuel Hubbard, of Boston, one of the best lawyers of New England, who for many years was the rival and the peer of the leaders of the Suffolk Bar.
When dinner was announced, the peer advanced in new-blown dignity, to offer his arm as a matter of course to my mother.
Staring Ionic capitalsPeer in them: Owl-like faces.
Vivian did not let the peer escape him in the drawing-room.
I do not hesitate to say that I would not change my present lot for that of any Peer of this realm; no, not for that of His Majesty's most favoured counsellor.
The only feeling which seemed to actuate the Peer was an eager desire to compensate, by his present conduct, for any past misunderstanding, and he loaded his young friend with all possible favour.
Now, gentlemen, in the first place, let me observe that every peer is a peer for life, as he cannot be a peer after his death; but some peers for life are succeeded in their dignities by their children.
The question arises, who is most responsible--a peer for life whose dignities are not descendible, or a peer for life whose dignities are hereditary?
But a peer for life whose dignities descend is in a very different position.
I have no doubt that, on the whole, a peer for life would exercise it for what he deemed was the public good.
Now, gentlemen, a peer for life is in a very strong position.
The jester softly trod the length and breadth of the stone flaggings, and stopped to peer at the corpse and its face.
He repeated his order to Dorn, bending a little to peer into his face.
He spoke in the low pleasant tone that never varied, whether he addressed peer or peasant.
Now that almost complete darkness had fallen, he ventured to make an opening in the foliage and to peer cautiously down.
He consecrated to the high purpose of dedicating the national Capitol to a free citizenship, a devotion and sagacity that made him the peer of any strategist of his day.
Patriot but not humanitarian, he would not peerbehind the curtain of a clashing North and South.
In England, the Grand Prior sat in Parliament as a Peer of the Realm.
As an extempore speaker she has no peer among her co-workers; her first suffrage speech was made at Delphi, May, 1877.
And as chairman of the executive committee of the National Association, she is without her peer in planning and executing the work.
Feeling that in intellectual and moral capacity woman is the peer of man, I think that her actual steps forward in needful preparation have given her the right to say who shall rule over her.
John Bright is without a peer among his countrymen, as are Mrs. Bessant and Miss Helen Taylor among the women.
To-day she is in many respects the peer of man, to-morrow she will be in all respects his acknowledged equal.
To be a peer on a jury involves the whole principle of equal rights.
It is not for us to peer into his inscrutable actions.
Now and then he opened a volume and endeavored to peer into the wondrous mysteries it contained, but the characters were new to him; they were neither Hebrew nor Russian, and the boy sighed as he piled the books upon each other.
They would have a house in London, Stafford should take his proper place in the world; they would step back to the high position which was his by right, as a peer of the realm.
Who gave you the right to peer and pry--" He recovered suddenly from the fit of fury and gripped Howard's arm as he almost shrank back from the burst of despairing rage.
In fact, that they are going to make a peer of him very shortly.
From such a background of accomplished fact he seems really to have a right to peer forth into the unbounded future and promise himself an unbounded destiny.
The hierarchic peer replied, "It rises from the damned in hell.
