Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference

His wife was created a peeress of Great Britain at the same time that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849] Reference

The fact Broon has had to scour round and replace her with a peeress proves that.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLINT SHOWS SOME SPARKS] Reference

His Lordship's brother married a Scottish peeress, and is the ancestor of the present Earl of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

He substituted: "How much more distinguished it is to look like an Undine than like a peeress.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

In May 1871 she was created a peeress, as Baroness Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield, Middlesex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The Duchess of Argyll was created, in 1776, a peeress of England as Baroness Hamilton of Hambledon County.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference

This visit was made; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

She knew — and where is the girl so placed that does not know? — that it is a great thing to be an English peeress.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite at a quarter to seven, and three of the bishops came next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

Now, as a fair and fashionable peeress, she hunts Ireland and England both with all the zest and skill of a native-born Irish woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

She could hear his very tones as he told her that of all queens she was the peeress, of all women the most beautiful, of all wives the most dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

There was an amusing little story going the rounds in connection with a certain peeress -- one of the "new rich" fraternity -- who had recently sat to Rooke for her portrait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

Then the potential peeress got up and left the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

But it is much to be a wife; and more to be a peeress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

"My wife, being a peeress, will of force be beheaded?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress Margery] Reference

As the light travelled each peeress shone like a rainbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference

"Her ladyship is a peeress in her own right," he explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference

She is the daughter of a marquis and a peeress in her own right.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference

The door gently opened -- the meek face of the new peeress appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

Nora told herself that there was no forgetting that her friend was a peeress.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

She looks like a peeress, and bears her honours grandly; but they will never harden her.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

The proposal of the venerable peeress was at first very naturally gratifying to Darrell.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Lord Fawn, no doubt, had an assured income and a real peerage, and could make her a peeress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

Lady Agatha had been a peeress in her own right since she had attained the tender age of two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Gray] Reference

Even the personal austerity of Quakerdom, or the state and estate of the peeress, could not come between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man] Reference

"And, my dears," she said, with a glance of all-embracing benevolence, "she looked a perfect young peeress.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite, at a quarter before seven, and three of the bishops came next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference

But it would also be very nice to be a peeress, -- so that she might, without any doubt, be one of the great ladies of London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

But a magnificent full-blown peeress, who knew her own mind and had nothing to fear, for her husband was no better than herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

"Manchester pattern!" exclaimed the petrified peeress; "why it is real cachemere: you don't think I wear any thing English, Mr. Pelham?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

With the choice of becoming a peeress, she had bestowed her beauty, intellect, wealth upon a man who had nothing to offer but his hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference