Of the peers a large majority were with the Royalist Parliament at Oxford while at Westminster a majority of the members sent up by the towns assembled.
The Peers rejected the bill, and the Commons then voted that neither the assent of the Peersnor the king was necessary for a law passed by themselves.
This met on the 22d of January, and forty-three peers and a hundred and eighteen commoners had taken their place beside many absent with the army.
All these grand personages and the Peers and Peeresses were so placed as to have a perfect view of the part of the minster in which the coronation took place-called, in the programme, "the Theatre.
Many of the seats of the Peers were also filled by their noble wives and fair daughters, most superbly and sweetly arrayed.
Toward one o'clock the Peers began to come in, clad in their robes of State.
Then the other Dukes, and Peers on Peers did homage by kneeling, touching coronet to crown, and kissing that little white hand.
The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack, The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas, And all the peers and nobles of the realm Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.
But peers did not in the least overawe Stanley Lake, who had been all his days familiar with those idols; and the moral altitudes of the attorney amused him vastly.
Twelve cannon cast by Louis VII were named after the twelve peers of France, and Charles V gave twelve others the names of the twelve apostles.
The poor daughters of peerscannot indulge in such things," cried she; "they are fit only for rich heiresses!
That he should be in the House of Peers was little satisfaction to me, unless distinguished among his peers.
The galleries are all crowded; peers stand on each other's toes, and patiently wait for hours.
Parents, Peersand Pot II: Parents in Action, by Marsha Manatt, 1983.
It is far better for children to obtain their information from their parents than from their peers or on the street.
From the fifth grade on, peers played an increasingly important role, while television and movies consistently had the second greatest influence.
It is rumoured that the Peers will pass the Second Reading of the Arrears Bill, and mutilate it in Committee.
Lord Ixwell--the name by which we know him--is reputed everywhere to be one of the richest peers in the kingdom.
We have seen that Sir Rutherford Alcock, by force of character, conviction, and sense of duty, naturally assumed the lead among his peers wherever he happened to be placed.
Li Hung-chang, knowing better than any of his peersthe risks of a war with France, had stretched his authority to the uttermost in concluding a treaty which practically ceded Annam and Tongking to that Power.
He is not ashamed to attempt to justify, what all thinking good men must condemn, the Queen's making twelve peers at once, to serve a particular turn.
A pair o' peers sans peerage," quoth Billy Alexander, with that boyish grin I loved to see.
Thus, there were no peers left living in the City.
At the second table sat the five great peers of England.
The arms of St. George adorned the summit, those of the King and the Emperor were raised on halberds, and the lower turrets had the arms of the royal family and the great peers of the realm.
A group had gathered about it of dandies, young and old, of ministers, of peerswithout peerages, and peerages without peers, for so the Revolution of July had ordered matters.
Plenty of young fops, sons of peers of France, have offered her a title in exchange for her fortune, and she has politely declined them all.
I was brought in contact with scholars, men of letters, ex-ministers, and peers of France.
Look at the lists of the two houses of parliament, and you will find lawyers predominate in the House of Commons; and, in the upper house, more peers who owe their origin to the law, than have sprung from the army and navy united.
What is extraordinary is, that several of the very peers who were engaged in these transactions, now declared treasonable, sat in judgment on their more unlucky accomplices.
But the peers insisted that what they did was made necessary by the extreme youth of the king, and Gloucester was obliged to give way.
It had been customary to appoint a committee of the peers and judges formerly, to remain after the business of the session was completed, to hear and determine on such petitions as had not been already answered.
When the storm was at its height, Henry interposed, and, while the conflicting peers were in fiery antagonism with each other, he let fall his intended blow on the party which had supported Richard against his uncle Gloucester and himself.
Finally, they proposed that six peers and prelates should come to their chamber to consult with them on these matters--an evidence that the Lords and Commons at that time regularly occupied separate houses.
But the peers determined to proceed; on which the bishops and abbots all protested against taking any part in judgments of blood, and left the house in a body.
He was speedily summoned to Paris to appear before the peers of France, called by the king to decide this great cause.
The queen received him with great courtesy, and placed him next her at dinner, and the peers who had likewise been taken prisoners sat down to feast.
Some are from the ancient French romances of the adventures of Charlemagne, and hispeers and paladins.
Markham received some reason to hope, from private friends at the Court, that his life would be spared, but the two peers and Raleigh were directed to prepare themselves for certain death.
Earl Grey and his chancellor, Lord Brougham, thereupon requested King William to overcome the opposition by sanctioning the creation of new peers sufficient to insure a majority for the act.
But nothing at that day could stop the progress of reform, as the King andpeers soon learned.
When the Third Reform Bill was ready for passage, the ministers secured the King's promise to frustrate the opposition of the Lords by filling up the House with new peers created expressly to vote for reform.
Peers threaten a fierce opposition, and the Radical Ministers warmly support the bill.
In time the nobles or peers began to sit by themselves, leaving the chosen representatives to meet in a House of Commons.
They found the peers determined to mutilate the proposition in disregard of the popular demand, now louder than ever, for "The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.
But there are reports of Peel being out of office on Friday next, and the peers may yet ride restive.
It proposed to establish at Dublin a Parliament of Peers and Commons, under a lord-lieutenant appointed by the crown, and an independent privy council.
Our good, conceited friend told me on Wednesday that he knew the peers would not pass the measure, and on Saturday he assured me that they would.
Deaf to his arguments, and blind to everything but their own privilege and immediate interest, thepeers pronounced against the bill.
But the time had passed when the peers could flout an aroused nation.
McCarthy is quite within the truth when he asserts that two-thirds of the House of Commons was made up of the nominees of the peers and great landlords "who owned their boroughs and members just as they owned their parks and their cattle.
The government threw obstacles in the way of the bill, and the peers mutilated it, but Ashley's persistency carried it at last.
Woman is not yet the object of this tenderness; Charlemagne's peers do not remember Aude while they fight; they expire without giving her a sigh.
He mounts a donkey; the twelve peers follow his example, and in this fashion the flower of French chivalry takes its way to the East.
When Earl Roland saw that his peers lay dead, and Oliver too, whom he so dearly loved, his heart melted; he began to weep; colour left his face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
