House of Peers
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Prominent members of the Diet and the House of Peers said privately that the government must fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake.
From Time Magazine Archive
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Torrington, whose course as Governor of Ceylon, had been brought into question in the Commons, defended himself in the House of Peers in a labored speech.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
