Rogers was knighted in 1991 and received a peerage five years later. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
France which we call the peerage, and his intelligent legs rest on the velvet benches of the Luxembourg. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
Gardenias and the peerage were his only weaknesses. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories] Reference
"As for the settlement of the peerage, that is all right," said. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
'I have always understood,' said Coningsby, 'that our peerage was the finest in Europe.'. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
But probably the advantage of the peerage is the less perceptible the nearer it is looked at. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference
The Prime Minister is right to explain that a peerage is a political office rather than a conventional honour. From Wordnik.com. [Cash for peerages] Reference
The Government should call another peerage into being to redress the balance of the old, and call it the Third Millennium peerage. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
If the peerage were a mere name, it would be nothing to envy; but it is so much more than a name; it enables men to be really so superior. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference
In 1900 he was raised to the peerage, under the title of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
We are supposed to have the peerage by heart; but we haven't. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Sirdar was raised to the peerage as Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Brothers, and in 1885 was raised to the peerage as BARON REVELSTOKE. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Boyd of Kilmarnock, who was raised to the peerage, under the title of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
In the peerage of pop, British rocker Roger Daltrey is already royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Not-So-Square Squires] Reference
The great landholders in the peerage are contented with making protests. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Howard is one, a name, which still stands high in the peerage of England. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Lords, in the midst of an admirable reply in some great appeal or peerage case. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
He also bought a peerage, and it became his favorite study at odd quarters of an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Sir William Follett had a right to regard his elevation to the peerage as a matter almost of course. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
On succeeding to the peerage he did not lose a moment in making his influence felt in the Upper House. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
It is not absolutely essential that he should be elevated to the peerage before being permitted to play. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Sir Robert Peel's first administration, and the following year was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashburton. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Other families to whom the title was accorded, independently of peerage dignity and on somewhat uncertain grounds, were. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Such creations became common under Henry VI., a transition period in peerage styles, but "Baron" could not evict "Sire,". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
What did this Warwick want as reward more than the peerage which may have been designed to chloroform an electric battery?. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
It is the diplomatic career of the founder of a peerage; compiled and published by the third in succession to the earldom. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
In 1686, he succeeded his brother, and added to the honours of a peerage those of a character already established for bravery. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
The peerage, the gentry, the yeomen, and the peasantry -- all classes were bound together with the links of respect and of affection. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The expenditure which would be excessive for the son of a clergyman, with a small living, would be moderate for the heir to a peerage. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Within this elite there were gradations which, in ascending order, were gentlemen, esquires and knights and then the hereditary peerage. From Wordnik.com. ['Aristocrats'] Reference
Cholmondeley, who knew all the ropes in this intricate mesh of British social life, intimated that a peerage might be bought for £50,000. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
From England he received the more substantial rewards of the peerage, by the title of Baron Malmesbury, and the appointment of ambassador. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
By the time, in 1981, when Murdoch emerged as the favoured bidder Trevor-Roper had acquired a life peerage, becoming Lord Dacre of Glanton. From Wordnik.com. [Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'] Reference
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