Meanings of english peerage in English

Gregory, whose knowledge of the English peerage was extremely limited, looked puzzled.

That, however, is not the characteristic of the English peerage.

No member of the English peerage to the "manner born" has approached him in this respect.

The head of the English peerage recommended the poor to rely on curry-powder as a nutritious and satisfying food.

One reason for this, perhaps, is that provoking facility in changing names which is incident to the English peerage.

A peer of France would be very glad to have the privileges of the English peerage; he would be legislator.

Having an English peerage of Hamilton in her own right, it is probable she preferred to continue her former title.

We agree with him, that the registers of the English Peerage are of far higher authority than any other statistical documents.

"And he was an Irish peer, till Lord Melbourne gave him an English peerage."

Whether the English Peerage be or be not predominantly now Tory, it is certainly not Tory after the fashion of the Toryism of 1832.

Francis Galton showed clearly the havoc wrought in the English peerage, by marriages with heiresses (an heiress there being nearly always an only child).

"It is not for me to question your knowledge-yourgreat knowledge-ofEnglish peerage law, Robert," pursued Mr. Pendleton with a kind of timid persistence.