69 Verbs to Use for the Word peering

on his accession to the throne, and I mention it with the more pride because, having been created a Peer of the Realm by her late gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, I was qualified to assist as a member of the Privy Council at the accession of his present most gracious Majesty, and had the honour to hear him announce himself as King Edward of England by the title of Edward the Seventh!

If, however, he was near akin to the Greeks in taste, in sentiment he was still more closely allied to the Romansnot that he would have allowed himself to be carried away by republican or by patriotic zeal, but he really finds his peers among the Romans, whereas he has, in a sense, only fictitiously assimilated himself to the Greeks.

Never had knighthood seen their peers for courtesy and kindliness, as for Wisdom and chivalry.

Before his bitter satire was published, however, Byron took his seat in the House of Lords, not knowing any peer sufficiently to be introduced by him.

"Zounds and fire!" cried the peer, "dost thou think to prevail with me by the motives of a coward?

" Ye that would fain net fish and wealth withal, For bare existence harrowing yonder mere, To this our Lady slay at even-fall That holy fish, which, since it hath no peer For gloss and sheen, the dwellers about here Have named the Silver Fish.

From the parts beyond the seas came Ligier, holding the dukedom and honour of Burgundy; Holden, Earl of Flanders; and Guerin, Earl of Chartres, having the twelve peers of France in his company, for the richer dignity and splendour of his state.

The first move was an action entered against Lord de Mowbray, and this brought that distinguished peer to Mr. Hatton's chambers in the Temple, for Hatton was at that time advising Lord de Mowbray in the matter of reviving an ancient barony.

While the conspirators were at their bloody work [of slaying Cæsar], the mass of the senators rushed in confused terror to the doors; and when Brutus turned to address his peers in defence of the deed, the hall was well-nigh empty.

But, mon très cher & très excellent ami, do not desert me, and remind the peer of the generosity you talked of.

"The man of worth, and has not left his peer, Is in his narrow house for ever darkly laid.

To make a long story short, my stepmother, in pursuance of her policy, determined that I should marry a certain peer whose name I need not mention.

Amongst the captains of Rome not one was counted his peer.

And, though she was in the beginning startled to hear that women had actually met in convention, and by speeches and resolutions had declared themselves man's peer in political rights, and had urged radical changes in State constitutions and the whole system of American jurisprudence; yet the most casual review convinced her that these claims were but the logical outgrowth of the fundamental theories of our republic.

80 Well might he deem each peer and prince his slave, And lord it o'er the tribes which he could save: Even vice in him was virtuewhat sad fate, But for his honesty had seized our state!

They dread the peering of holy eyes into their hearts; they feel themselves naked and fear to be ashamed, therefore cast the garment of hypocrisy about them.

It is only advised to eliminate the last seventy-six peers.

However, the strength of the opposition encouraged the peers to speak with more than their usual freedom.[b] They contended, that the ordinance was unnecessary, since the committee was employed in framing a new model for the army; that it was unjust, since it would operate to the exclusion of the whole peerage from office, while the Commons remained equally eligible to sit in parliament, or to fill civil or military employments.

I always fancy a newly-made peer must be like a newly-built house, glaring, and staring, and arid and uncongenial.

Then Leonardo's 'Art of Painting' and Reynolds's Discourses'both discovered in the shop, and studied incessantly, till the boy of eighteen felt himself the peer of any Academician, and walked proudly down the Kendal streets, thinking of the half-finished paintings in his garret at home, and of the dreams, the conceptions, the ambitions of which that garret had already been the scene.

Both were the appurtenances of an individual ever present and ever alone, ever at his subjects' doors, and never called upon, in dealing with their lot, to gather his peers around him.

Nathless this violence my spirit cheers With better hope than if she had no wrong; While Love invincible arrays the throng Of dauntless thoughts, and thus harangues his peers:

And we may assert this without implying that, if the single act of empowering Lord Temple to influence the peers by the declaration of the King's private feeling had been submitted by itself to the electors, they would have justified that.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Copy-right Case, ii. 272; Corporation of Stirling Case, ii. 374; dissatisfaction with its judicature, ii. 421, n. 1; Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; lay peers in law cases, iii. 345; 'noble stands,' made, v. 102; Scotch Schoolmaster's Case, ii. 144, 186; wise and independent, iii. 204.

Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer, 145 Great Englands glory and the worlds wide wonder, Whose dreadfull name late through all Spaine did thunder, And Hercules two pillors standing neere Did make to quake and feare.

69 Verbs to Use for the Word  peering