House of Peers
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There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the nineteenth of January, 1836, he was appointed to succeed Lord Cottenham as Master of the Rolls, and was at the same time called to the House of Peers.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
