fellow-commoners

He announced to his fellow-commoners that his right honourable friend and colleague Lord de Terrier had thought it right to retire from the Treasury.

Phineas Finn 2004

Here it is evident that his health was under no peril from too severe a course of study, since he expressly informs us that "it was not the fashion in those days to plague fellow-commoners with lectures."

Maria Edgeworth 1905

He announced to his fellow-commoners that his right honourable friend and colleague Lord de Terrier had thought it right to retire from the Treasury.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869

He announced to his fellow-commoners that his right honourable friend and colleague Lord de Terrier had thought it right to retire from the Treasury.

Phineas Finn 1867

By the door on either side are the red-curtained and velvet-cushioned seats of the Master and Vice-master, beyond whom sit the noblemen and fellow-commoners.

Julian Home 1867

It was one of the regular, reckless, uproarious affairs -- D'Acres, Boodle, Tulk, Brogten, Fitzurse, were all there, and the elite of the fast fellow-commoners, and sporting men besides.

Julian Home 1867

He announced to his fellow-commoners that his right honourable friend and colleague Lord de Terrier had thought it right to retire from the

Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848

He attacks the snobbishness of the universities, showing us how one class of young men consists of fellow-commoners, who wear lace and drink wine with their meals, and another class consists of sizars, or servitors, who wear badges, as being poor, and are never allowed to take their food with their fellow-students.

Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848

The fellow-commoners are 'young men of fortune,' who, in consideration of paying twice as much for everything as anybody else, are allowed the privilege of sitting at the fellows 'table in hall, and in their seats at chapel; of wearing a gown with gold or silver lace, and a velvet cap with a metallic tassel; and of getting off with a less number of

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Various 1841

I had such strength, health, and spirits, that I had more life in my little finger than half the fellow-commoners -- genteel, spindle-shanked striplings, who might have passed for a collection of my grandfather's walking-canes -- bad in their whole bodies.

Night and Morning, Volume 3 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838