Legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in the United Kingdom.
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The earl occupies the higher position of the two in the peerage.
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The peerage is probably being lined up for Hope Powell right now.
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The same thing might have been said of fully half the peerage.
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He towers above his fellows by all the height of the peerage.
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She was dazzled by the thought of being elevated to the peerage.
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If you're a millionaire donor and avoid tax, you get a peerage.
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The British peerage was represented by Lords Emmott and H. Cavendish Bentinck.
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I caught an elevator to rise up through the peerage between us.
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The peerage must come; there is no chance of my losing it.
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Raised to the peerage as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Farringford, 1884.
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Wealth alone grew at last to be a title to the peerage.
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You may, of course, take it as a reflection on the peerage.
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Gregory, whose knowledge of the English peerage was extremely limited, looked puzzled.
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Gladstone who declines a peerage is anomalous, not Tennyson who takes it.
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His mother was exceedingly desirous that her son should obtain a peerage.
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He belonged to a peerage of which there are very few members.'
