peeress

How to use peeress in a sentence

• Nevertheless she triumphed; he had made her a peeress, and she did care for that; she cared also for the broad lands of Hartledon.

  Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood

• Why should not a peeress feel herself as properly placed among her peers as the Queen seated at her Council?

  The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. Dall

• He afterwards was made secretary of state, married a peeress, and spent his last days at Holland House.

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII | John Lord

• But Lady Shrewsbury was a peeress and the widow of a Talbot, and criminal rank in those days was banished not executed.

  Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge

• My father set my sister up in business as a British peeress and bought her her husband and settled a whacking dower on her.

  What Will People Say? | Rupert Hughes