House of Peers
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Prussia will once more have a House of Peers.
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
Returning to Japan the Prince took his seat in the House of Peers in 1890, and in 1903 succeeded his brother-in-law as President.
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A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers.
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The sittings of the House of Peers were henceforth held in public; but this chamber underwent another and more fundamental transformation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
