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