House of Peers
Example Sentences
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A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, in Washington, Japan's first music maestro, whose elder brother, Prince Funimaro Konoye, heads the Japanese House of Peers, made cultural face for his country such as no Japanese had ever made before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, sir—Mr. Larkin—I can hardly believe, sir—you can't mean, or think it possible, sir, that I should lend myself to a deception, and—and sit in the House of Peers by a fraud, sir!
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
