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  • The Duchess of Kingston's trial for bigamy was approaching and everyone who was anyone would be showing up in their best in order to outdo each other at the embarrassment of their fellow Peeress.

    Size Matters Heather Carroll 2008

  • There was play, certainly — all the world played — his Majesty, the Bishops, every Peer and Peeress in the land.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Though written violently, it was in excellent English; but the editor, as usual, had given to somebody else the task of breaking it up into sub-headings, which were of a spicier sort, as “Peeress and Poisons”, and

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Though written violently, it was in excellent English; but the editor, as usual, had given to somebody else the task of breaking it up into sub-headings, which were of a spicier sort, as “Peeress and Poisons”, and

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Proneville; she is the only Peeress in her own right in France, and has a large fortune.

    The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

  • _Memoirs_ and the _Memoirs of a Peeress_, edited by Lady Charlotte

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • 'Favorite;' with 'Minor' -- 'Minor' was by 'Favorite' and his dam also was by 'Favorite;' with 'Peeress' -- she was by 'Favorite' and her dam also by 'Favorite;' with 'Bright Eyes' -- she was by 'Favorite' and her dam also by 'Favorite;' with 'Strawberry' -- she was by 'Favorite' and her dam by 'Favorite;' 'Dandy,' 'Moss Rose,' among the cows and 'North

    The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals S. L. Goodale

  • To attempt to instruct a Peer would be as gross an impertinence to the instinct of his order as to present MINERVA -- who no doubt came from the head of JOVE a Peeress in her own right -- with a toy alphabet or horn-book.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

  • Memoirs and the Memoirs of a Peeress, edited by Lady Charlotte Bury, both of which books dealt with persons whom Lady Hester had known in her youth.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • In 1903, the Fiscal controversy absorbed much of public attention, the War Office was once more reformed, women's skirts still swept the pavement and encumbered the ball-room, a Peeress wrote to the _Times_ to complain of Modern Manners, Surrey beat

    Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

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