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.
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A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers.
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In the House of Peers last week Viscount Masatoshi Okochi demanded that the Premier's slayers should at least be tried.
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On "ladies day" last week the visitors' gallery of the House of Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school.
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The fame of Lord Lyndhurst is ephemeral, confined to the Court of Chancery and the House of Peers; dozens have shared it in each, and have gone to dinner and oblivion.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
