The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite, at a quarter before seven, and three of the bishops came next.
Each peeress was conducted by two Gold Sticks, one of whom handed her to her seat, and the other bore and arranged her train on her lap, and saw that her coronet, footstool, and book were comfortably placed.
She felt confidently enough that her son would only too gladly exchange a cottage-mother for one who was a peeress of the realm.
She demurred, with the haughty severity which had grown part of her character, and which her elevation to the rank of a peeress had rather intensified than diminished.
And pleased with what he believes to be his real Spanish farewell, our dandy-linguist elbows his way up to Lady Ormolu, and gladdens that panting peeress with the pearls and rubies of his intellectual conversation.
Lady Dinadam invites her to the great ball, which that exemplary peeress annually endures with the constancy of a martyr; but as for the little dinners, for which her gastronomic lord is so justly renowned, it is needless to think of them.
Six years later she was created a peeressin her own right, her title being Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire.
Mankind are not more heartless because they are clothed in ermine; it is that their costume attracts us to their characters, and we stare because we find the prince or the peeress neither a conqueror nor a heroine.
On her accession to her own independent rank, the odious name of Titmouse would disappear in the noble one of Lady Drelincourt, peeress in her own right, and representative of the oldest barony in the kingdom.
The proposal of the venerable peeress was at first very naturally gratifying to Darrell.
The fire was now blazing in the grate: still the high-born peeress was shivering with the cold—for ere she could put on a single article of clothing, she was forced to wash the black dirt from her delicate fingers.
This could only be accomplished by ennobling her husband, unless public decency were wholly ignored, and she was created a peeress in her own right, whilst he remained a commoner.
She was not a peeress among peeresses; not a queen of beauty and of fashion, leading the elite of society in London.
I must be a peeress of England, cost what it may in sin against others, or in suffering to myself.
I have deliberately determined to be a peeress of England, and I will be one, whatever the cost.
She never derogated from her husband's honour by the fictitious liveliness of gossip, or allowed any one to forget the peeress in the woman.
Such an instance did arise in the case of the late Baroness Stratheden, who was created a peeress whilst not being an heiress.
But the arms of a peeress in her own right are frequently represented on a lozenge without any reference to the arms of her husband.
The widow of a peer (not being a peeress in her own right) uses a lozenge of her husband's and her own arms, with his supporters and his coronet (Fig.
Apparently it would not be permissible to place them on an escutcheon of pretence, and consequently there is no way upon the husband's shield of showing that his wife is a peeress in her own right.
An attendant on the Court announced suddenly to their Majesties that a lady, who would only announce herself as a Peeress of England, desired to be admitted into the presence.
I am a Peeress of this nation--mother to one English Earl, and widow, alas, to another!
The carriage was overthrown; but the high and fearless courage of the peeress bore her unharmed, even as she was flung out on to the yielding fern-grown turf.
But I can settle five hundred on her, and there's many a peeress of the realm who hasn't that.
The peeress by marriage prefixes her Christian name or initials to her husband’s title.
One cannot call to mind in recent times any instances in which the peeress in her own right has married a peer of lower rank than her own, and until such a case occurs it is difficult to forecast what the signature should be.
If the peeress as a wife has no rights, what is the state of the cotter's wife?
The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite at a quarter to seven, and three of the bishops came next.
The very thought of that haughty old peeress so humiliated was wonderfully pleasant to the wounded pride of Rachael Closs.
She spoke firmly, and with the dignity of deep feeling, standing upright and looking bravely into his face, as if she were a peeress already, and was ready to pledge all the honor of a long race of ancestors for the faith that was in her.
If the peeress as a wife has no rights, what is the state of the cotter's wife?
My father set my sister up in business as a British peeress and bought her her husband and settled a whacking dower on her.
They went, and beheld a chimpanzee that rode various bicycles, smoked a cigar expertly, and spat with amazing fidelity to the technique of the super-ape; also a British peeress who danced in less clothes than the chimpanzee wore.
Marriage ain't all chocolate-creams," said the peeress after a pause.
As soon as the train started the peeress began to cry.
At the very moment when they were dispatching a telegram for her to an address in London, she had popped out the remark: "Do you know I'm the youngestpeeress in England?
They knew that Lady Southminster was the youngest English peeress because she had told them so.
However, the excitement of escorting the youngest English peeress to Paris sufficed for Audrey, even if it did not suffice for Miss Ingate with her middle-aged apprehensions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dame; gentlewoman; lady
