Jury member, in theory

Usage examples of peer.

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

A warm and acrimonious debate was maintained by the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Wellington, and other opposition peers on the one hand, and Lord Melbourne and the lord chancellor on the other.

Peering out the window, Addle could only see the edge of the swing set, serrated by the moonlight.

The debate continued by adjournment up to Thursday the 28th of May, most of the peers being anxious to deliver their sentiments on this great subject.

Senor Archbishop Turpin, it is a great discredit to those of us called the Twelve Peers to do nothing more and allow the courtier knights victory in this tourney, when we, the knights who seek adventures, have won glory on the three previous days.

Gnaeus Clodius Afer, lifting his head and peering back in the direction from which they had deployed.

Clodius Afer, tilting his head to peer at the curving surface of the ceiling eighty feet above.

Without waiting for a reply, she went to Ager and peered at him closely.

Fortunately, elves fill their rooms with furniture and vases and flowers and birdcages, so we were well-concealed, although I had to peer through the leaves of a palm and Alake was eye-to-eye with a singing phurah bird.

The lanky slicer was peering through an access panel with his magnispecs flipped down, manipulating a micrograbber in each hand and muttering to himself in a high-pitched, staccato manner that sounded alarmingly like machine code.

The guests at the Albergo Monte Gazza peered at one another over dinner through a gradually deepening gloom, enlivened by occasional lurches towards complete darkness.

Here may be seen the Peer and the Prig, the Wise one and the Green one, the Pigeon and the Rook amalgamated together.

Earls and barons shall not be amerced except through their peers, and only in accordance with the degree of the offense.

Peers extend to each other would have included avoiding the introductions of anachronisms into a mansion famed for its authenticity.

Flicking the hair from her eyes and the water from both, she peered through the blurs the drops made and saw an Ancestral form on the bank.