Peeress

Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fact Broon has had to scour round and replace her with a peeress proves that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The peeress or daughter of a peer received a kiss from Queen Victoria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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 … ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She knew — and where is the girl so placed that does not know? — that it is a great thing to be an English peeress. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These worthy gentlemen had directions to make the necessary settlements on the most splendid scale of liberality, as if Edward were to wed a peeress in her own right, with her paternal estate tacked to the fringe of her ermine. ❋ Unknown (2004)

English peeress, yet circumstances so fell out that before three days were over he and Mr Glascock were thrown together in very intimate relations. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They vied in grandeur, that is, in ostentation, with the wife of Sir Charles Chickwell, who had four times their fortune; and she again piqued herself upon making an equal figure with a neighbouring peeress, whose revenue trebled her own. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To herself there seemed nothing strange in her new position; but to Mrs Crawley it was wonderful that she — she, poor as she was, — should have an embryo peeress at her bedside, handing her her cup to drink, and smoothing her pillow that she might be at rest. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This visit was made; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She, poor lady, was not unhappy; she had all that money could give her, she would probably live to be a peeress, and she really thought Sir Abraham the best of husbands. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There was a drive of four or five miles before they reached the park gates, and nothing could be kinder or more friendly than was the new peeress; but Nora told herself that there was no forgetting that her friend was a peeress. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She looks like a peeress, and bears her honours grandly; but they will never harden her. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was true that there was no particular reason why Pansy should marry a statesman; still, if a statesman admired her, that was his affair, and she would make a perfect little pearl of a peeress. ❋ Unknown (2003)